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Costa Fortuna on sunday 23/08/2015 leaving Amsterdam - North Sea Canal (Noordzeekanaal) - The Netherlands
Costa Fortuna is a cruise ship for Costa Crociere built in 2003 on the same platform as Carnival Cruise Lines' Destiny-class. She was inspired by the Italian steamships of the past. Models of these ships are on display in the ship's public areas. In the atrium, models of the 26 past and present ships of Costa's fleet are displayed upside down, on the ceiling, up to, and including, Fortuna herself.
General characteristics:
Class and type: Fortuna class cruise ship
Type: passenger vessel
Tonnage: 102,587 GT
74,481 NT
11,150 DWT
Displacement: 50379 t
Length: 273 m (896 ft)
Beam: 36 m (118 ft)
Draught: 8.2 m (27 ft)
Decks: 13
Installed power: 63360 Kw
Propulsion: fixed pitch propeller
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph)
Capacity: 2,720 passengers
Crew: 1,027 crew
Notes: 1
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The North Sea Canal (Dutch: Noordzeekanaal) is a Dutch ship canal from Amsterdam to the North Sea at IJmuiden, constructed between 1865 and 1876 to enable seafaring vessels to reach the port of Amsterdam.
This man-made channel terminates at Amsterdam in the closed-off IJ Bay, which in turn connects to the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal.
The drainage of the canal to the North Sea is done through the Spui Locks at IJmuiden, augmented by the largest pumping station in Europe. This system is vital to the groundwater management of the Western Netherlands.
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