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Largest in this registry
#2,415
of 84,014 with a recorded tonnage
Largest cruise ship
#89
of 504 of this type with a recorded tonnage
Largest in its fleet
#4
of 18 in this fleet with a recorded tonnage
In brief
Costa Concordia (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkɔsta koŋˈkɔrdja]) was a cruise ship operated by the Italian cruise line Costa Crociere. She was the first of her class, followed by her sister ships Costa Serena, Costa Pacifica, Costa Favolosa and Costa Fascinosa, and Carnival Splendor built for Carnival Cruise Line. When the 114,137-ton Costa Concordia and her sister ships entered service, they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130,000 GT Dream-class cruise ships.
On 13 January 2012 at 21:45, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio. This tore open a 53-metre (174-foot) gash on the port side of her hull, which soon flooded parts of the engine room, cutting off power from the engines and ship services. As water flooded in, the ship listed as she drifted back towards the island and grounded near shore, then rolled onto her starboard side, lying in an unsteady position on a rocky underwater ledge.
The evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours, and of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died. Francesco Schettino, the ship's captain at that time, was tried and found guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident, and abandoning his ship. He was sentenced to sixteen years in prison in 2015.
Vessel particulars
Every value is as recorded in the source. Blanks are values the source does not hold — none is estimated from a sister ship or a class average.
Identification
Construction
Measurements
In context
Every figure in this section is a count, a rank or a percentile over vessels actually held in this registry — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
At 114,147 gross tons, Costa Concordia is the 2,415th largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 19 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.
Among the 665 cruise ships held here, it ranks 89th by tonnage — larger than 82% of that group. Their median tonnage is 43,009 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 143,289 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is The Bahamas (133 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is Fincantieri, with 112 hulls on record.
Italy is the country of registry for 918 vessels in this directory, of which Costa Concordia is the 15th largest by tonnage. The most common class under that flag is vessels this registry holds no type classification for (488 ships), and the median vessel measures 4,975 GT. Browse every ship flagged Italy.
Narrowing to both dimensions at once, this registry holds 33 cruise ships flying the Italy flag, of which 7 are larger by tonnage.
Costa Concordia was built in 2006, making it 20 years old. It is one of 2,118 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 8,539 GT; within it this ship is the 28th largest. Across the whole of the 2000s the registry holds 18,605 vessels, median 9,957 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.
The registry attributes 226 vessels to Fincantieri, with a median tonnage of 54,655 GT, delivered between 1935 and 2026. See the rest of that yard’s output.
At 290.2 m overall, Costa Concordia is 92.1 m longer than the 198.1 m median for cruise ships on record, with a beam of 35.5 m and a draft of 8.2 m.
IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9320544 this registry holds 74 other vessels, whose median build year is 2006 and which range from 2003 to 2008. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2006.
Its IMO number, 9320544, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 3×6 + 2×5 + 0×4 + 5×3 + 4×2 = 114 — and the last digit of that total, 4, must equal the seventh digit, 4. It does, so this number is well formed.
Nearest by tonnage among cruise ships
| Ship | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|
| Sapphire Princess | 2004 | 115,875 |
| MS Azura | 2010 | 115,055 |
| Costa Pacifica | 2009 | 114,425 |
| Costa Concordia (this ship) | 2006 | 114,147 |
| Ruby Princess | 2008 | 113,561 |
| Crown Princess | 2006 | 113,561 |
Record
Events recorded against this vessel in the source, with the dates the source gives. An event with no date is listed last rather than assigned one.
Class
| Ship | IMO | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Costa Serena | 9343132 | Italy | 2007 | 114,147 |
| Carnival Splendor | 9333163 | Panama | 2008 | 113,300 |
| Costa Pacifica | 9378498 | Italy | 2009 | 114,425 |
| Costa Favolosa | 9479852 | Italy | 2011 | 113,216 |
| Costa Fascinosa | 9479864 | Italy | 2012 | 113,321 |
Same fleet
Provenance
Vessel recordWikidata, released under CC0, keyed on this ship’s IMO number.
Written summaryQuoted from Costa Concordia on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
PhotographBy Jean-Philippe Boulet, reused under CC BY 3.0.
| 2007 |
| 113,561 |