MS ''Color Fantasy'' is a
cruiseferry
A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship and a Ro-Pax ferry. Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while oth ...
owned and operated by
Color Line on their route between
Oslo
Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...
in
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...
and
Kiel
Kiel () is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 246,243 (2021).
Kiel lies approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the southeast of the Jutland ...
in
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. The ship was
built in Finland at
Aker Finnyards Turku Shipyard in 2004. ''Color Fantasy'' is currently the world's second largest cruiseferry, surpassed only by her sister ship, the
MS ''Color Magic''.
Specification
Main dimensions
*Length overall: 223.90 m
*Length btw.pp: 202.66 m
*Breadth, wl mld: 35.00 m
*Height to deck 3: 9.5/9.7 m
*Height to deck 7: 21.9 m
*Draught, design: 6.8 m
*Draught, scantlings: 7.0 m
*Deadweight: 5000 t
*Tonnage: estimate GT: 75,027
*Speed (90%MCR,15%SM) 22.1kn
Passengers and crew
*Number of Passengers: 2750
*Number of Passengers Cabins: 968
*Cabins outside: 492
*Cabins atrium: 120
*Cabins inside: 356
*Number of Crew: 250
*Number of Crew cabins: 248
Main equipment and machinery
*Mechanical Propulsion Machinery: 4 x 7800 kW Diesel engines
*Propulsion power, about: 31200 kW
*Aux Power plant: 4 x 2450 kVA Diesel generators
*Main generator power: 9800 kVA, 690 V
*Shaft generators, manoeuvring only: 2 x 6000 kVA, 6600 V
*Emergency Diesel Generator Set: 900 kvA
*Bow Thrusters: 3 x 2200 kW, 6600 V
*Aft thrusters: 2x 1000 kW, 6600 V
Cargo
*Trailers, Deck 3: 1030 lm
*Trailers, Deck 2: 240 lm
*Total trailer lanemeters: 1270 lm
*Cars, Deck 5: 200 cars
*Cars, Deck 4: 258 cars
*Cars, Deck 3: 292 cars
*Car capacity: 750 cars
Class notation
*+1A1 ICE 1B, Carferry A, E0, NAUT-OC, RP, Clean, F-M, Comf-V(1)
See also
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Largest ferries of Europe
In terms of ''gross tonnage'', the largest ferry in the world is the 75,156-ton '' Color Magic'', built by Aker Finnyards of Finland, and operated by Color Line on the route between Oslo in Norway and Kiel in Germany. Its sister ship '' Color Fant ...
External links
Color Line official website
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Ferries of Norway
Cruiseferries
Ships built in Turku
Water transport in Oslo
Color Line (ferry operator)
Merchant ships of Norway