COSTA VICTORIA cruise vessel

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Built under yard no 1107 by the Bremer Vulkan yard at Bremen-Vegesack, Germany for Coasta Grociere SpA, Genova, (Costa Cruises), Italy. She was ordered late 1993. A consortium of yards, namely Bremer Vulkan, Lloyd Werft at Bremerhaven and Schichau Seebeckwerft and STN Atlas Elektronik, built her, the sections were assembled at the Bremer Vulkan yard at Vegesack.
05 September 1995 floated out of the drydock and towed to Bremerhaven for outfitting.
Tonnage 75.166 gross, 44.277 net, 8.039 dwt., dim. 252.91 x 36.10 x 14.09m. draught 8.00m.
Powered diesel electric by 6 MAN B&W oil engines each 9.100 kW, total 68.927 bhp, twin screws, speed 23 knots.
Passenger capacity in 964 cabins of which six are fitted out for disabled persons, a total of beds 2.394.
Crew 766.
She has 14 decks of which 12 are designated for passengers.
Middle Feb. 1996 first yard trials.
13 July 1996 christened under the name COSTA VICTORIA.
The building cost US$ 300 million.
15 July 1996 completed.

She was ordered together with a sistership by the Costa Cruises by the Bremer Vulkan shipyard, but when the yard got in financial difficulties the second ship was never delivered to Costa Cruises, but taken over by Norwegian Cruises and completed as NORWEGIAN SKY under a revised specification.

28 July 1996 maiden voyage.
According to published reports, Europe’s finest designers and architects spared neither effort nor expense in creating the cruise ship COSTA VICTORIA.
Fielding’s Cruise Guided rated her with five stars, and Cruise reports named her among their pick of Top 10 Ships.
COSTA VICTORIA’s passenger decks are named for different Italian operas including a Pompei Spa, with a tranquil indoor pool and mosaic-tile columns. Turkish bath, gymnasium, and luxury spa treatments. The Festival Show Lounge, Concord Plaza, Rock Star Disco, Orpheus Grand Bar, and Monte Carlo Casino, the COSTA VICTORIA promises a luxury floating vacation for its patrons. She is employed in eastern and western Caribbean cruises in the winter, and the Mediterranean in the summer months.

December 2003 12 - February 2004. Rebuilt at Lloyd Werft, Bremerhaven.

2011 given by http://www.equasis.org IMO No 9109031 same owner.


June 2020. Sold to San Giorgio del Porto Shipyard, Piombino, Italy.

23 June 2020. Arrived at Piombino for scrapping, which did not happen.

January 2021. Towed to Aliaga, Turkey, under the name ST VICTORIA.

28 January 2021. Arrived in Aliaga, Turkey for scrapping, the same day scrapping commenced.

Liberia 2000 $100 sgMS?, scott?
Uruguay 2011 $37 sg?, scott?

Sources. Marine News, Watercraft Philately 2003/62. Many websites.