MS Kristina Katarina
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| Name: | MS Kristina Katarina |
| Operator: | Kristina Cruises |
| Port of registry: |
 Southampton, United Kingdom |
| Builder: | Stocznia Szczecińska (Poland) |
| Maiden voyage: | April 1982 |
| Identification: | IMO number |
| Status: | in active service, as of 2024[update] |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Cruise ship |
| Tonnage: | 12,688gross tons |
| Length: | 452.7 ft (138 m) |
| Beam: | 68.8 ft (21.0 m) |
| Draught: | 19.0 ft (5.8 m) |
| Decks: | 7 passenger, |
| Installed power: | 12,800kW |
| Propulsion: | Two fixed propellers |
| Speed: | 17.5 knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph)[1] |
| Capacity: | 462 (lower berths, The Iris) and 20 cars; 380 (lower berths, current)[2] |
| Crew: | 170 (The Iris)[3] |
MS Kristina Katarina is a cruise ship operated by Finnish shipping company Kristina Cruises. She operated as Konstantin Simonov in the Baltic sea from construction, undergoing a refit in 1988. From 1996 to 2001, the ship operated as Francesca in the Mediterranean sea. Until 2010, the ship was owned by Israeli Mano Cruise (after a refit in 2001) and operated in the eastern Mediterranean sea under the name The Iris, during which time it was registered in Malta. The ship is being refitted again and will join Kristina Cruises in late 2010, taking over as flagship from the much smaller Kristina Regina.[1][2][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Kristina Katarina". kreuzfahrt.bunge-web.com. http://www.kreuzfahrt.bunge-web.com/kristinakatarina.htm. Retrieved 13 March 2010. (German)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Kristina Cruises shipping company to acquire a new flagship". Transport Weekly. 18.12.2009. http://www.transportweekly.com/pages/en/news/articles/68040/. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ↑ Ward, Douglas (2009). Complete Guide to Cruising and Cruise Ships. p. 632 (The Iris).
- ↑ "M/S Kristina Katarina / Introduction". Kristina Cruises. http://www.kristinacruises.com/index.php?a=laivat&s=188. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
