Pacific Dawn (ship)
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Pacific Dawn
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| Cost: | US$276.8 million |
| Yard number: | 5840 |
| Launched: | 29 March 1990 |
| Acquired: | 20 July 1991 |
| Maiden voyage: | August 1991 |
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| Status: | In service |
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| Tonnage: | 6,412 DWT |
| Length: | 245.06 m (804 ft 0 in) |
| Height: | 56.00 m (183 ft 9 in) |
| Draught: | 8.218 m (26 ft 11.5 in) |
| Decks: | 11 passenger decks |
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| Propulsion: | Two electric motors of 12MW each, two propellers 6 blades, Ø 5.8 m (19 ft 0 in) |
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| Capacity: | 2,020 passengers |
| Crew: | 660 |
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| Fuel oil capacity | 2,727 t (2,684 long tons; 3,006 short tons) |
| Fuel consumption | 1,700 imp gal (7,700 l)/hr (75 ft/gallon, 6 m/l) |
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| Class and type: | Crown Princess-class cruise ship |
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| Speed: | 19.5 knots (36.1 km/h; 22.4 mph) |
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Pacific Dawn is a cruise ship owned and operated by P&O Cruises Australia. She was built in 1991 by the Fincantieri shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy as Regal Princess. The ship was ordered by Sitmar Cruises, but delivered to Princess Cruises, and later sold to the fleet of P&O Cruises Australia.
After her multimillion-dollar refurbishment in Singapore from Regal Princess to Pacific Dawn, she operates from Australia to South Pacific destinations. Her renaming coincided with P&O's 75th anniversary in Australia.
Sitmar Cruises had started an ambitious new building programme for the North American cruise market in 1985. Following an abortive attempt to order ships from the Italy-based Fincantieri, the company had placed an order for one ship, Sitmar Fairmajesty, with the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in France. Sitmar were planning to order additional vessels however, and the Italian government—owners of Fincantieri—were eager to have these ships built by an Italian shipyard. Following negotiations between Sitmar and Fincantieri, the former placed an order for two 70,000 GT cruise ships with the latter, to be delivered in 1990 and 1991. Although the ships maintained the same basic layout of Sitmar Fairmajesty, their exteriors were redesigned by the Italian architect Renzo Piano.
In 1988, while the two new ships ordered from Fincantieri were in the early stages of construction, Sitmar Cruises was sold to P&O Group and the three Sitmar ships under construction were transferred to the fleet of P&O's subsidiary Princess Cruises. The second of the ships under construction at Fincantieri was launched from drydock on 29 March 1990 and named Regal Princess. Following successful sea trials on 5 June 1991 Regal Princess was delivered on 20 July 1991 to Astamar, a subsidiary of P&O Group.
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