''Costa Diadema'' is a owned by
Carnival Corporation and operated by
Costa Crociere. The ship was ordered in October 2012 and was delivered to Costa on 25 October 2014.
At her time of delivery, ''Costa Diadema'' was the largest vessel to fly an Italian flag and was Costa's largest vessel at the time; she is formerly Costa Crociere's
flagship being replaced by the .
Design and engineering
![Costa Diadema Palma 2019-10-29 6](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Costa_Diadema_Palma_2019-10-29_6.jpg)
''Costa Diadema''s 11 kV electrical generation system is provided from six generators, six aft/
bow thruster
Manoeuvering thruster (bow thruster or stern thruster) is a transversal propulsion device built into, or mounted to, either the bow or stern, of a ship or boat to make it more manoeuvrable. Bow thrusters make docking easier, since they allow th ...
electrical motors, HV main switchboard and distribution transformers, propulsion transformers, synchro drives, and motors from
General Electric
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.
The ship is also equipped with six Wärtsilä 12V46 engines that produce an output of .
''Costa Diadema'' features a total of 1,862 cabins that can accommodate a maximum of 4,947 passengers and 1,253 crew members and also has an outside promenade extending over .
The ship includes three swimming pools, three dining areas, a 4D cinema hall, and a
Saṃsāra spa across four decks.
Construction and career
Costa Cruises ordered the ''Dream''-class vessel in October 2012, making her the largest ship to be ordered and built for Costa. The ship cost
Carnival Corporation US$739 million to build.
She was ordered and built to replace , which sank earlier in the year.
''Costa Diadema'' had her
keel
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laid on 10 December 2012 at
Fincantieri
Fincantieri S.p.A. () is an Italian shipbuilding company based in Trieste, Italy. Already the largest shipbuilder in Europe, after the acquisition of Vard in 2013, Fincantieri group doubled in size to become the fourth largest in the world (2014 ...
's shipyard in
Marghera
Marghera is a ''municipalità'' (borough) of the ''comune'' of Venice, Italy. It includes the industrial area known as Porto Marghera (English: Marghera Port) or Venezia Porto Marghera.
Etymology
The name Marghera is said in popular myth to come ...
, marking the beginning of her hull assembly. She was
launched on 15 November 2013, with an official ceremony performed by Franca Grasso, the ship's madrina at her launch.
She was delivered on 25 October 2014
and performed a "Vernissage Cruise," from
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into prov ...
to
Genoa
Genoa ( ; it, Genova ; lij, Zêna ). is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy. In 2015, 594,733 people lived within the city's administrative limits. As of the 2011 Italian census, the Province of ...
on 1 November.
Her naming ceremony was held on 7 November 2014 at the
Port of Genoa
The Port of Genoa it is one of the most important seaports in Italy, in competition with the ports of Marseille and Barcelona in the Mediterranean Sea. With a trade volume of 51.6 million tonnes, it is the busiest port of Italy after the port of ...
, where she was officially
christened by Italian travel agent, Carolina Micelli.
''Costa Diadema'' spent her inaugural season and subsequent seasons cruising the Western
Mediterranean
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western Europe, Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa ...
until she was redeployed to
Dubai
Dubai (, ; ar, دبي, translit=Dubayy, , ) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the 7 emirates of the United Arab Emirates.The Government and Politics of ...
in November 2018 to begin cruising the
Persian Gulf
The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The bod ...
for the winter season.
As of 2019, she rotated between the Mediterranean in the spring and summer months and the Persian Gulf in the fall and winter months.
[
On 24 March 2020, the ship docked at ]Limassol
Limassol (; el, Λεμεσός, Lemesós ; tr, Limasol or ) is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the district with the same name. Limassol is the second largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population ...
, Cyprus, and a crew member suspected of suffering from the coronavirus was taken to hospital. Several other crew members were also reported to be ill. ''Costa Diadema'' was sailing from Dubai to Savona, Italy, without passengers.
References
External links
Official site
{{Costa Cruises
Ships built in Venice
2013 ships
Cruise ships of Italy
Ships built by Fincantieri
Ships of Costa Cruises