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ROMANTICA ird: Fincantieri

In November 1993, the $325 mil- n Costa Romantica set sail from e Port of Miami on her maiden yage. The arrival of this 53,700- ti, 1,350-passenger vessel marked e completion of Costa Cruise ne's first $1 billion investment in set expansion and development.

The vessel is powered by four

MT-Sulzer 8ZL40S engines—de- iloping 7,200-hp each—driving ps propellers through Renk-Tacke duction gears.

The vessel is outfitted with the test array of navigation and com- unication electronics. Included

L the Sperry integrated naviga- on package is radar, compass, lo- in and autopilot. VHF radios were ipplied by Standard Communica- on and ICOM, and Sailor pro- ided SSB radios.

The Costa Romantica will divide er time between the Caribbean in le winter and the Mediterranean l summer.

Constructed at the Fincantieri hipyard in Mestre, Italy, and de- vered to her owner in October, the !osta Romantica measures 718 feet jng with a 98-foot draft.

The vessel also embodies the rend toward luxurious interiors nd features a blend of traditional ind contemporary artistic features, dahogany and burled briarwood ontrast with polished marbles and lowing fountains.

Furnishings in the tradition of

Thonet, Morris and other design- ers of the last century are juxta- posed against a contemporary back-

Irop of sweeping glass window walls md futuristic sculptures.

A sculpture named "The Cloud,"

Dy Susumu Shingu, a Japanese sculptor, is the focal point of the ship's dramatic Grand Lobby. Ac- tually a suspended mobile, the sculpture's panels move continu- ally and change color against the

Cararra marble walls and floor.

Costa Romantica's 1,350 passen- gers are arranged in 644 state- rooms, rooms which average ap- proximately 200-sq.-ft. each.

The vessel features 16 luxury suits, and 18 mini-suites. To attract the business crowd, the ship offers

COSTA ROMANTICA

Equipment List

Main engines GMT-Sulzer

Propellers Lips

Thrusters Lips

Generator engines GMT

Thruster engines Ansaldo Lips

Generators

Reduction gears Renk-Tacke

Engine controls ASEA Brown Boveri

Steering controls Sperry-Frydenbo

Deck machinery Norwinch

Shafting SimDlex

VHF radios Standard Communications/ICOM

SSB radios Sailor

Radar Sperry

Compass Sperry

Loran

Autopilot Sperry

Pumps Garbarino/lron a full-service Conference Center, which offers a flexible layout and one large meeting room which can accommodate up to 150 people. The conference center also features state- of-the-art audio/visual equipment and flip-top desks. For more infor- mation on the building capabilities of Fincantieri,

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