AIDAstella

History
AIDAstella in port of Hamburg on 5 May 2013
Italy
Name	AIDAstella
Owner	Costa Crociere S.p.A.^[1]
Operator	AIDA Cruises
Port of registry	Genoa, Italy
Builder	Meyer Werft
Yard number	695^[1]
Laid down	17 December 2008^[1]
Launched	25 January 2013^[1]
Christened	16 March 2013 in Warnemünde by 10 ladies^[2]
Completed	11 March 2013^[1]
Maiden voyage	17 March 2013
In service	17 March 2013
Identification	Call sign: ICUP IMO number: 9601132 MMSI number: 247322800 DNV ID: 115489
Status	In service
General characteristics
Class and type	Sphinx-class cruise ship (modified)
Tonnage	71,304 GT 45,266 NT 7,833 DWT
Length	253.26 m (830.91 ft)
Beam	32.2 m (105.64 ft)
Draught	7.3 m (23.95 ft)
Decks	14
Installed power	36,000 kW (combined)^[3]
Propulsion	Diesel-electric; two shafts (2 × 12,500 kW) Fixed-pitch propellers Two bow thrusters Two stern thrusters
Speed	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Capacity	2,700
Crew	620

AIDAstella is a Sphinx-class cruise ship, built at Meyer Werft for AIDA Cruises. She is the seventh Sphinx series ship, preceded by sisters AIDAdiva, AIDAbella, AIDAluna, AIDAblu, AIDAsol and AIDAmar. AIDAstella was delivered to the shipping company by Meyer Werft on 11 March 2013.^[4]

AIDAstella is of the same size as her sister ships (71,300 Gross Tons).^[5] Two five bladed propellers drive her through the water at 23 knots. She also features a pair of bow thrusters, a pair of stern thrusters, a pair of stabilisers and twin rudders.^[5]

From 3 to 8 March 2018, AIDAstella underwent a dry dock in Dubai during which various public venues were refurbished.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Aidastella (115489)". Vessel Register for DNV. Germanischer Lloyd. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
^ Zehn heiße Patinnen für das neue Traumschiff(in German)
^ AIDAstella. Meyer Werft. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
^ M/S AIDAstella, Fakta om fartyg (in Swedish)
^ ^a ^b GmbH, MEYER WERFT. "AIDAstella". www.meyerwerft.de. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
^ Staff, CIN (14 March 2018). "AIDAstella Gets Ice Cream Bar and More in Drydock". Retrieved 15 March 2018.