Postcard published by Microart's, Recco, Cod. 055509.
The Costa Riviera was a historic cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere from 1984 until 2002. Originally built in 1963 as the passenger liner SS Guglielmo Marconi, she was rebuilt into a dedicated cruise ship and sailed Caribbean and European itineraries before being sold for scrap in 2002.
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Advertising postcard published by Giuseppe Lang, Genova, Cod. 19479.
Costa Victoria was a cruise ship launched in 1995 and operated by Costa Crociere from mid-1996 until 2020. Built in Bremerhaven, Germany, by Bremen Vulkan Werft und Maschinenfabrik GmbH, she had a capacity for 2,394 passengers. During her service with Costa she operated in many areas, including Asia (China, India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Dubai, etc.) and Africa (Mauritius, Madagascar). Her last trips were through the Mediterranean (Italy, Spain, Greece). The ship hosted athletes for the Universiade event at Naples in July 2019 with over 1,900 athletes and 38 national delegations worldwide were accommodated to aboard the ship. In June 2020, in light of the economic impact caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, Costa Victoria was moved to the port of Piombino, Italy, and decommissioned. Ella she was sold in December 2020 for possible conversion to worker's accommodation at a Genoa shipyard, but resold for demolition in Aliağa, Turkey, where she arrived on 28 January 2021.
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Advertising postcard published by Linea C, Genova.
The Eugenio
C was an ocean liner/cruise ship originally owned by the Costa Line of Costa Crociere S.p.A.
Built by Cantieri
Riuniti dell'Adriatico in Monfalcone,
she was launched on November 21, 1964 under the name Pinuccia Costa Musso,
and she entered service on August 22, 1966. For 10 years she only operated
transatlantic voyages between Genoa and South America. In 1984 she was
completely renovated and renamed Eugenio Costa, a name she kept until
1999. Between that year and the following she sailed under the name Edinburgh
Castle; between 2000 and 2004 as The Big Red Boat II, and finally,
as Red Boat, was scrapped at Alang, India, on June 1, 2005.
It had a gross register of 32,753 tons, a length of 217.3 m (713 ft) and a
width of 29.3 m (96.1 ft). Its capacity was 1,636 passengers.
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