![]() GNV Cristal in the French port of Sète
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History | |
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Operator |
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Port of registry |
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Route | Olbia—Civitavecchia / Palermo—Civitavecchia (as of 2008)[4] |
Builder | Schichau Seebeckwerft, Bremerhaven, West Germany |
Yard number | 1067[1] |
Laid down | 10 September 1988[1] |
Launched | 25 February 1989[1] |
Acquired | 29 September 1989[1] |
In service | 4 October 1989[1] |
Identification | IMO number: 8712518[1] |
Status | In service |
General characteristics [1] | |
Class and type | Peter Pan class cruiseferry |
Tonnage | |
Length | 161.00 m (528 ft 3 in) |
Beam | 29.00 m (95 ft 2 in) |
Draught | 6.50 m (21 ft 4 in) |
Installed power | 4 × Zgoda-Sulzer 8ZA40S (combined 18,638 kW) |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 21.3 knots (39.4 km/h; 24.5 mph) |
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MS GNV Cristal is a cruiseferry owned by the Italy-based SNAV and operated by their Grandi Navi Veloci brand.[1][4] She was built in 1989 by Schichau Seebeckwerft in Bremerhaven, West Germany as MS Olau Hollandia for Olau Line. From 1994 to 2005 she sailed as MS Pride of Le Havre for P&O ferries.[1] From 2005 to 2017 she operated as the SNAV Sardegna between Civitavecchia, Palermo and Olbia.