MSC Fantasia
MSC Fantasia preparing to enter Civitavecchia
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| History | |
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| Name: | MSC Fantasia |
| Owner: | MSC Cruises |
| Port of registry: |
 Panama
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| Ordered: | June 1, 2005 |
| Builder: | STX Europe, St. Nazaire, France |
| Cost: | $550 million |
| Yard number: | A33 |
| Launched: | February 8, 2008 |
| Christened: | December 18, 2008 by Sophia Loren in Naples |
| Completed: | December 9, 2008 |
| Acquired: | December 11, 2008 |
| In service: | December 18, 2008 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 9359791 Call Sign: 3ETR7 MMSI number: 370648000 |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Fantasia-class cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 137,936 GT 107,916 NT 15,000 DWT |
| Length: | 333.33 m (1,093 ft 7 in) |
| Beam: | 37.92 m (124 ft 5 in) |
| Draft: | 8.65 m (28 ft 5 in) |
| Decks: | 13 passenger decks, 18 total |
| Propulsion: | Diesel-electric Two Converteam propulsion motors (2 × 20,200 kW) Fixed pitch propellers |
| Speed: | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) (cruising) 22.7 knots (42.0 km/h; 26.1 mph) (maximum) |
| Capacity: | 3,900 passengers |
| Crew: | 1,313 |
MSC Fantasia is an Italian Fantasia-class cruise ship owned and operated by MSC Cruises. She entered service in December 2008. She was the largest ship operated by MSC Cruises, along with her sister ship MSC Splendida, until the entrance to service of MSC Divina (2012) and MSC Preziosa (2013).
MSC Fantasia was delivered to MSC Cruises on 11 December 2008. She was officially named on 18 December 2008, in Naples by Sophia Loren, and started on her maiden voyage on the same date. Since her first cruise, this vessel has been the flagship of the company.
On March 5, 2009, high winds snapped the forward mooring lines of MSC Fantasia while she was docked in Spain. The bow drifted away from the dock side and caused a passenger gangway to collapse into the water. One passenger and three crew members had to be rescued from the sea. One passenger was taken to hospital with head injuries, while the other three were treated for hypothermia. When she was sailing into Naples on April 5, 2012, she hit the wall of the dock, nobody was hurt, but she had a small dent on her stern area where she hit.
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