Name: Astoria Grande
Former names: AIDA, AIDAcara
Registered owner: Goodwin Shipping Ltd — listed in CruiseMapper / Wikimedia-style vessel records
Operator / commercial operation: Akvilon Shipping / Astoria Grande cruise operation; CruiseMapper also links the operation with Miray Cruises Turkey for Turkish-side services
Flag: Palau
Port of registry: Malakal Harbour, Palau
Builder: Kvaerner Masa-Yards, Turku / Åbo, Finland
Yard number: 1337
Cost: DM 300 million, about US$190 million
Keel laid: 11 September 1995
Launched: 16 February 1996, as AIDA
Completed / delivered: 4 June 1996
Christened: 7 June 1996, Warnemünde
Maiden voyage: 11 June 1996, Bremerhaven–Palma de Mallorca
Renamed Astoria Grande: August 2021
Status: In service
Identification
IMO number: 9112789
MMSI number: 511100759
Call sign: T8A3965
General characteristics
Class & type: Cruise ship / passenger cruise ship
Concept: Originally built as the first AIDA “club ship”
Tonnage: 38,557 GT
Net tonnage: about 17,766 NT, post-2009 figure in historical sources
Deadweight: 3,752 DWT
Length overall: 193.34 m
Registered length: 174.15 m
Beam: 27.60 m hull breadth in historical specs; VesselFinder lists 30.81 m, likely overall / extreme breadth
Depth: 16.95 m moulded
Draught: about 6.00 m
Decks: 11 total decks; 9 passenger decks commonly listed
Speed: 20–21 knots
Main engines: 4 × MAN B&W 6L48/60 diesel engines
Power: 21,720 kW
Propulsion: Twin-screw motor vessel
Passenger capacity: 1,186–1,365 depending on source / configuration
Cabins: 590–593 cabins
Crew: about 360–370 crew
Refurbishments / modernization: Refurbished under AIDA, including 2018; further drydock/modernization in 2021–2022 before Astoria Grande service
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