MS Melody
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MS Melody was a cruise ship, formerly owned and operated by MSC Cruises. She was built in 1982 by the CNIM shipyard in La Seyne, France for Home Lines as Atlantic. Between 1988 and 1997 she sailed for Premier Cruise Line as StarShip Atlantic. In 1997, the vessel entered service for MSC Cruises as Melody. In 2009 she repelled a pirate attack off Seychelles. She ended her career as an accommodation ship Qing, during which she sank in storm at her berth, and was scrapped in 2019.
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MSC Melody in April 2008 | |
History | |
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Port of registry | |
Builder | CNIM, La Seyne, France[2] |
Cost | US$100 million[3] |
Yard number | 1432[1] |
Launched | 9 January 1981[1] |
Completed | 1982 |
Acquired | 2 April 1982[1] |
Maiden voyage | 14 April 1982[1] |
In service | 14 April 1982[1] |
Out of service | 2013 |
Identification | IMO number: 7902295[1] |
Fate | Scrapped at Alang, India in 2018. |
General characteristics [1] | |
Type | Cruise ship |
Tonnage | |
Length | 204.81 m (671 ft 11 in) |
Beam | 27.36 m (89 ft 9 in) |
Draught | 7.80 m (25 ft 7 in) |
Decks | 9 (passenger accessible)[3] |
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Propulsion | 2 propellers[3] |
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Capacity | |
Crew | 535[4] |
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