"Barcelona"", together with sister ""Cruise Roma"", is operated on the Civitavecchia-Porto Torres-Barcelona route, sailing twice a week in winter and five times per week in summer. On 13–14 January 2012 ""Cruise Barcelona"" was involved in the rescue operation following the ""Costa Concordia"" disaster. MS Cruise Barcelona MS ""Cruise Barcelona"" is a cruiseferry owned and operated by Grimaldi Lines. It was built at Fincantieri in Castellammare di Stabia, Italy. She was the second of a series of four sister ships, the others being ""Cruise Roma"" (also operated by Grimaldi Lines), ""Cruise Europa"" and ""Cruise Olympia"" (operated by Minoan Lines). They are"
"Costa Concordia disaster On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship ""Costa Concordia"" ran aground and overturned after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, resulting in 32 deaths. The eight year old Costa Cruises vessel was on the first leg of a cruise around the Mediterranean Sea when she deviated from her planned route at the Isola del Giglio, sailed closer to the island, and struck a rock formation on the sea floor. A six-hour rescue effort resulted in most of the passengers being brought ashore. ""Costa Concordia"" was officially declared a ""constructive total loss"" by the"
"than three times the $612 million construction cost of the ship. Costa Cruises offered compensation to passengers (to a limit of €11,000 per person) to pay for all damages, including the value of the cruise. 65% of the survivors took the offer. ""Costa Concordia"" (call sign: IBHD, IMO number: 9320544, MMSI number: 247158500), with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, was sailing off Isola del Giglio on the night of 13 January 2012, having begun a planned seven-day cruise from Civitavecchia, Lazio, Italy, to Savona and five other ports. She struck her port side on a reef, at"
"launched for a test. Under the regulations in force in 2006 when ""Costa Concordia"" was delivered, the ship had to be designed to survive the flooding of two adjacent compartments caused by an breach. The damage caused by impact with the rocks left a in the hull. Below is a timeline of the wrecking, 13–14 January 2012 (using local time, which was UTC+1). Costa Concordia disaster On 13 January 2012, the Italian cruise ship ""Costa Concordia"" ran aground and overturned after striking an underwater rock off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany, resulting in 32 deaths. The eight year old Costa Cruises"
"Costa Concordia Costa Concordia () was a built in 2004 by the Fincantieris Sestri Ponente yards in Italy and operated from 2005 until 2012 by Costa Crociere (a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation). It was wrecked off the coast of Isola del Giglio in Italy on 13 January 2012 due to a collision with a submerged rock; the ship capsized hours later and was subsequently declared a total loss. The ship's captain Francesco Schettino was found guilty of manslaughter; causing a maritime accident and abandoning ship. The wreck was salvaged and then towed to the port of Genoa where scrapping operations"
"Francesco Schettino Francesco Schettino (; born November 14, 1960 in Meta into a seafaring family) is an Italian former sea captain who commanded the cruise ship ""Costa Concordia"" when it struck an underwater rock and capsized with the deaths of 32 passengers and crew off the Italian island of Giglio on January 13, 2012. Schettino attended the nautical institute Nino Bixio in Piano di Sorrento, then worked for the ferry company Tirrenia. In 2002 he was hired by Costa Crociere (Costa Cruises), a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation. Starting as an official in charge of security, he moved up to become"
"attention, following the 13 January 2012 running aground of the cruise liner ""Costa Concordia"", just off the town's harbour. Most of the more than 4,200 passengers and crew were rescued and taken to the island, as well as to the mainland. 32 people died and 64 were injured. The ship removal work was started in 2013 and was completed towards the end of July 2014, with the now active ship making its final journey to Genoa, for scrapping. Giglio Porto Giglio Porto is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Isola del Giglio, province"
"2003 to 2005. On 13 January 2012, the ""Costa Concordia"" cruise ship, owned by the Costa Crociere shipping company and under the command of Captain Francesco Schettino, impacted a rock in the waters of Isola del Giglio, reporting the opening of a 70-meter-long hole on the left side, followed by the partial submersion of the ship. De Falco, who led the Captaincy in Livorno, assumed the coordination of the rescues to the cruise unit in difficulty. During the radio and telephone communications between the operating room of the Livorno Captaincy and the ""Concordia"", taken by De Falco and Schettino, the"
"spa facilities. Each ship has a 21,000-ft (2,000-m) wellness facility. Additional spa cabins were also included into the ""Concordia"" class. Carnival operates only a single vessel in this class, ""Carnival Splendor"", which is marketed as a ""Splendor""-class ship. Including ""Carnival Splendor"", there are currently five ships sailing in the ""Concordia"" class. ""Costa Concordia"" capsized on January 13, 2012, after running aground shortly off the coast of Tuscany. The ship had departed from Civitavecchia on a seven-day Mediterranean cruise with 3,229 passengers and a crew of 1,023. The grounding caused a gash in the hull, flooding the ship and causing the"
"transferred to Costa following the merger of Carnival Corporation and P&O Princess in 2002. Ibero Cruises is a new brand, created in 2007 as a joint venture between Carnival Corporation and Orizonia Group. The Costa Cruises brand currently operates fourteen cruise ships, which all sail under the Italian flag and provide cruise holidays in the Mediterranean, Northern Europe, the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East, South East Asia and South America. The company gained international attention on January 13, 2012 when one of its cruise ships, the ""Costa Concordia"", ran aground and capsized off the coast of Italy, because"
"began. The name ""Concordia"" was intended to express the wish for ""continuing harmony, unity, and peace between European nations."" ""Costa Concordia"" was the first of the ""Concordia""-class cruise ships, followed by similar ships ""Costa Serena"", ""Costa Pacifica"", ""Costa Favolosa"" and ""Costa Fascinosa"", and ""Carnival Splendor"" built for Carnival Cruise Lines. When the ""Costa Concordia"" and its sister ships entered service, they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the s. On 13 January 2012 at 21:45, ""Costa Concordia"" struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio. This"
"Local fishermen helped rescue the passengers and crew but as the local authorities did not have the equipment to extinguish the fire the ship was left to burn until the British frigate arrived from Puerto Rico. The burning ship was in the main anchorage and would block the harbour if it sank there, so the ""Londonderry"" towed it to a different location where the ""Bianca C"" sank. On January 13, 2012, ""Costa Concordia"" ran aground off Isola del Giglio, Tuscany. The ship capsized and partially sank, killing 32 people. In 2014, the ship was parbuckled and refloated with caissons, and"
"games. She also had aboard a Grand Prix motor racing simulator and an internet café. On 22 November 2008, ""Costa Concordia"" suffered damage to her bow when high winds over the Sicilian city of Palermo pushed the ship against its dock. There were no injuries and repairs started soon after. On 13 January 2012, under the command of Captain Francesco Schettino, in calm seas and overcast weather, after departing Civitavecchia, the port for Rome, Italy, on a 7-night cruise, at 21:45 local time (UTC+1), ""Costa Concordia"" hit a rock off Isola del Giglio (), on the western coast of Italy"
"Captain Francesco Schettino wanted to 'salute' the Italian island of Giglio off Tuscany with a close sail past at night. The captain was one of the crew to leave the sinking ship early while many passengers were still on board. The ship was left lying on its starboard side in shallow water. Thirty-two people died. Six weeks later the company made headlines again when a fire on ""Costa Allegra"" left it drifting without power for 13 hours in waters near Somalia frequented by pirates, before the ship was taken under tow. On July 27, 2014, after tugboats had slowly towed"
"side, creating problems in launching the lifeboats. The president of Costa Cruises, Gianni Onorato, said normal lifeboat evacuation became ""almost impossible"" because the ship listed so quickly. After the grounding, passengers and crew were taken ashore from the ship by lifeboats and helicopters or swam to the island, leaving about 40 people missing. Half of these were later found inside the ship, most of them deceased. In the first contact, made at 22:12, between Italian port officials and ""Costa Concordia"" after the impact on the reef, an unidentified officer on board the cruise ship insisted that she was suffering only"
"towed to Genoa in July 2014. In December 2013 invitations were issued by Costa to twelve companies to tender for the dismantling of ""Costa Concordia"", in France, Italy, Norway, Turkey and the UK. On 30 June 2014 the Italian Government endorsed Costa's decision to have the vessel dismantled at Genoa by Italian companies Saipem, Mariotti and San Giorgio. On 1 February 2014 a Spanish diver working on the ""Costa Concordia"" wreck died after slashing his leg on a sheet of metal. He was brought to the surface alive by a fellow diver, but later died. This was the only death"
"2017, Sib Hashian, former drummer for the band Boston, collapsed and died on the ship while performing as part of a Legends of Rock cruise. In late 2017, ""MSC Divina"" was featured in a photo exhibition by Gianni Berengo Gardin underlying the effects of cruise ships on the historical city of Venice. MSC Divina MS ""MSC Divina"" is a cruise ship owned and operated by MSC Cruises. She was constructed from 2010 to 2012 being originally named ""MSC Fantastica"" while under construction. MSC renamed her when near complete in the shipyard to honour the actress Sophia Loren. ""Divina"" is the"
"second-in-command. In 2006 Schettino was promoted to captain and given command of the newly launched ""Costa Concordia"". In 2010 as captain of the ""Costa Atlantica"", he entered the port of Warnemünde, Germany, at too high a speed, allegedly causing damage to the ""AIDAblu"", also a Carnival Corporation ship. In 2014 he taught on a panic management course at Rome university. Schettino was the captain in charge of the ""Costa Concordia"" when it hit an underwater rock off Giglio on January 13, 2012, capsized, and 32 people lost their lives. He accepted some degree of responsibility and asked for forgiveness when"
"merchants sunk. On 1 December the Italian troop transport ""Adriatio"" was sunk by ""Aurora"" and ""Penelope"", with some survivors being rescued by ""Lively"". Later that day the damaged Italian tanker ""Irido Mantovani"", which was being towed by the destroyer , was intercepted, and both ships sunk; the Italian destroyer fought back with such gallantry that the crew of ""Lively"" saluted it with military honours as it sank. On 5 December ""Lively"" joined the cruisers and and the destroyers and in escorting the supply ship ""Breconshire"" from Malta to Crete, and then joining ""Breconshire"" on her return leg from Alexandria carrying"
"MV FAS Provence MV ""FAS Provence"" was a cargo ship that sank in January 2012 off the coast of Malta. She was built in 1986 by Rickmers Reismühlen in Bremerhaven, Germany as MV ""Britta Thien"", and sailed under the German flag for two years. She did not operate between 1988 and 1997, when she was renamed and reflagged as a Bahamian ship. She sank on 13 January 2012, about offshore from Fort Delimara, during a storm in the Mediterranean Sea while unmanned and under tow. At the time of her sinking, she was operated by Döhle (IOM) Ltd. ""FAS Provence"""
"in June 2012, by the underwater robot 'Pluto Palla', designed by Italian engineer Guido Gay. It was discovered about off the northern coast of Sardinia, at a depth of around . On 10 September 2012, a memorial ceremony was held on an Italian frigate over the spot where ""Roma"" went down. Giampaolo Di Paola, himself a former naval officer and at the time defence minister, at the ceremony described the dead sailors as ""unwitting heroes who found their place in history because they carried out their duty right until the end"". Italian battleship Roma (1940) Roma, named after two previous"
"""Italia"" and operated her on cruises out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1977 Costa purchased the ship and began chartering her to various companies. This ended in 1983 when Costa sold ""Italia"" to Ocean Cruise Line. Ocean Cruise Line renamed her ""Ocean Princess"" and had her do cruises in the Mediterranean during the summer, and in the Caribbean and Latin America during the winter. In March 1993, while cruising through the Amazon, the ""Ocean Princess"" struck a sunken wreck on the river bottom, causing her engine room and lower decks to flood. All passengers and crew were rescued unharmed,"
"a further 275 casualties who died when the ""Transylvania"" sank, but whose graves are unknown. ""Transylvania"" was discovered by the Italian Carabinieri on 7 October 2011 off the coast of the island of Bergeggi at a depth of 630 metres (about). Facebook page 'Vecchia Savona' (meaning old Savona) shows photos of the funeral procession of the deceased British Sailors through the City of Savona. Newspaper article dated 7/5/1917 also gives respect to survivors leaving the City to continue the war. SS Transylvania (1914) The SS ""Transylvania"" was a passenger liner of the Cunard subsidiary Anchor Line, and a sister ship"
"Costa Magica Costa Magica is a cruise ship for the Costa Crociere cruise line. She debuted in 2004 as a sister ship to ""Costa Fortuna"", built on the same platform as the ""Destiny""-class of the Carnival Cruise Lines. ""Magica"" pays homage to some of the most famous destinations in Italy including Positano, Portofino, Bellagio, and Sicily which are all incorporated into her public rooms and restaurants. At , she is one of the largest in the Costa Crociere fleet. On the 4 January 2006, fifteen-year-old Irish girl Lynsey O' Brien fell overboard ""Costa Magica"". The underage O' Brien had been"
"sent a number of messages on 7 December, but after that date no further communication was received. She failed to arrive at Algiers on her due date and was reported overdue on 21 December. The Italian torpedo boat ""Fortunale"" claimed to have sunk a submarine with depth charges on 12 December, south-east of Capri. This remains the most probable cause of the submarine's loss, but there has been no confirmation. Her wreck was claimed to have been found off Cape Negro, Tunisia, by a Belgian amateur diver, but there has been no confirmation of the finding. HMS P222 HMS ""P222"""
"MV Sage Sagittarius The MV ""Sage Sagittarius"" is a bulk carrier built in 2000. The vessel is operated by the NYK Line. In 2012 three men died aboard the vessel on a routine return voyage from Japan to Newcastle to pick up a bulk load of coal. On the way to Newcastle approximately from the coast of Queensland in the Coral Sea when the chief cook, Cesar Llanto, was reported missing. Australian authorities were notified, and the ship turned around, and a 36-hour search commenced. A company official, Kosaku Monji, was dispatched to investigate and landed in Brisbane and helicoptered"
"2012, Sapphire was beached for scrapping in Alang under the name of ""Aspire"". MS Sapphire MS ""Sapphire"" was a 1967 Italian built cruise ship that most recently operated for Louis Cruise Lines, once laid up at Eleusis Bay and was sold for scrap in May 2012. The ""Sapphire"" was ordered as one of two sisters for the Italian company Sunsarda SpA in 1963 as ""Italia"", and was one of the first purpose-built cruise ships. Her interiors were designed by Gustavo Finali and Romano Boico, who designed the interiors for other famed Italian liners, such as the SS ""Raffaello"" and her"
"of the crew were trapped inside the hull and went down with the ship. The sinking of ""Cesare Rossarol"" two nautical miles off the coast of Lisignano left ninety-three petty officers and marines dead, including seven officers and the captain and was one of the largest losses of life for the Italian navy during the war. Italian cruiser Cesare Rossarol Cesare Rossarol was a scout cruiser built in Sestri Ponente, Genoa, in 1913 and launched by S.A.I. Gio. Ansaldo & C. in Liguria, Italy, in 1914. Like her sister ships, ""Alessandro Poerio"" and ""Guglielmo Pepe"", she was named after a"
"""Agip Abruzzo"", sparking an extensive fire that ravaged the ship. The only survivor of the crew and passengers of the ferry was a young ship's boy, Alessio Bertrand from Naples. The other 140 on board were killed by the fire or toxic fumes. On 28 May 1998 the ship's hull sunk while impounded in a dock in Livorno harbor; it was later refloated and sent to be scrapped in Turkey. MV"" Moby Prince"" was an Italian ferry owned by Navarma Lines (today Moby Lines). She was built in 1967 by the English shipyard Cammell Laird of Birkenhead as ""Koningin Juliana"""
"Barbiano"" capsized and sank in a sea of flame. 534 men, including Admiral Antonino Toscano, the commander of Italian Fourth Naval Division, his entire staff and the commanding officer of ""Alberico Da Barbiano"", Captain Giorgio Rodocanacchi, were lost with the ship. 250 survivors reached the Tunisian coast or were picked up by rescuing vessels. ""Da Barbiano""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s wreck was located in 2007 by an Italian expedition. Italian cruiser Alberico da Barbiano Alberico da Barbiano was an Italian light cruiser, that served in the Regia Marina during World War II. She was named after Alberico da Barbiano, an Italian condottiero of the"
"insurance company, and her salvage was ""one of the biggest maritime salvage operations"". On 16 September 2013, the parbuckle salvage of the ship began, and by the early hours of 17 September 2013, the ship was set upright on its underwater cradle. In July 2014, the ship was refloated by large sponsons (metal tanks) welded to its sides and was towed 320 kilometres (200 miles) to its home port of Genoa for scrapping which was finished in July 2017. The total cost of the disaster, including victims' compensation, refloating, towing and scrapping costs, is estimated at approximately $2 billion, more"
"sank. In 1952 the wreck of the ""Mario Roselli"" was salvaged and towed to Monfalcone for reconstruction. She had a second career between 1952 and 1972, when she was sold to be scrapped in England. MV Mario Roselli Mario Roselli was an Italian cargo ship, confiscated by Nazi Germany, which was sunk by Allied aircraft on 11 October 1943 in Corfu Bay, killing some 1,302 Italian POWs. The ""Mario Roselli"" was built by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico in 1940. Launched on 25 April 1941, the ship was delivered to the customer on 22 April 1942 and seized the next day in"
"reflagged to Tanzania in April 2014 and to Panama in July 2016. On January 6, 2018, ""Sanchi"" collided with the cargo ship ""CF Crystal"" and caught fire. This occurred off of Shanghai, China in the East China Sea. ""Sanchi"" was travelling from Asaluyeh, Iran, to Daesan, South Korea. It was carrying natural-gas condensate (136,000 tonnes (960,000 barrels)) for South Korean petrochemical company Hanwha Total. The fire burned for several days and part of the tanker exploded on January 10. After further explosions, ""Sanchi"" sank on January 14, 2018. The entire crew of 32 died, with one body recovered from the"