"Gaia and Argentea … Favolosa and Gaudiosa … Fauna and Flora.

These are just some of the 25 pairs of suggested newbuild names shortlisted by Costa Crociere from approximately 16,000 submissions by travel agents worldwide. The public is now invited to vote on their favorites.

Costa seeks names for its 16th and 17th vessels, a pair of 114,500gt ships scheduled for delivery from Fincantieri’s Marghera yard in spring 2011 and 2012.

Voting is open until Oct. 20 at www.worldofcosta.com.

It’s part of Costa’s ‘Send us a sea of names’ project, which received suggestions from travel agents in more than 40 countries.

The favorites so far? When Seatrade Insider checked this morning, Emozione and Passione were leading the vote count. Estate and Primavera were bringing up the rear."

I was appalled when only a year ago Costa announced their two new ships were to be called COSTA MERAVIGLIA and COSTA FAVOLOSA. Thankfully, the former appears to have fallen by the wayside to be replaced by COSTA GAUDIOSA and COSTA EMOZIONE amongst other names. God (iosa) help us!!!!!

You seem to have forgotten that Costa had one of their ships named Daphne in 1979 !

She was converted in to a cruise ship from the cargo/passenger ship Port Melbourne !

Not quite a blokes name unless he was gay !

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Originally posted by Neil - Ex P. & O. S. N. Company.:
Mike SA

You seem to have forgotten that Costa had one of their ships named Daphne in 1979 !

She was converted in to a cruise ship from the cargo/passenger ship Port Melbourne !

Not quite a blokes name unless he was gay !

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Actually Carras Line (Greek) had the two ships rebuilt as DAPHNE and DANAE. After a few years Costa chartered them, but never changed the names.

They did make an outright purchase of these ships in 1984 and they still kept their names !

I often saw these two ships on their caribbean Costa cruises in the 1970's .

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Originally posted by ahrpd:
I was appalled when only a year ago Costa announced their two new ships were to be called COSTA MERAVIGLIA and COSTA FAVOLOSA.

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Those orders morphed into different ones; I'm not sure if they kept the names.

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Not quite a blokes name unless he was gay !

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Originally posted by Aussie1:
Yes Costa simply named ships after members of the family, male and female, hence Andrea C, Anna C, Bianca C and Carla C on the ladies side. [...]

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Originally posted by Ernst:

I am actually not sure whether Andrea C. is on the ladies side.

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You're right, Andrea is a male name in Italian, pronounced an-DRAY-uh, as in an-DRAY-uh DOR-i-a.

Yeah would be nice if they start reusing there old name system. I bet the Costa fam. have enough names to name the fleet. Or what do you think of Costa Arissioni

Must stop I start to think of naughty names

Some of the same people put down Pullmantur Cruises for having English words in their ships' names, so what gives?

Would love to see the Costa Riviera name return, but I do give major credit to them for not recycling their names.

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Originally posted by Linerrich:
I think a lot of people ridicule Costa's names because they're difficult (for English-speakers) to pronounce. Let's remember that Costa is by Italians and mostly for the Italian market, in spite of occasional forays into other parts of the world.

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Nevertheless, I really don't have a problem with most of Costa's names. I do think COSTA DELIZIOSA sounds stupid, because of what it means, not just the sound of it. The rest are fine. I even like some of them - I think COSTA LUMINOSA is a very nice name, for example, and I think the ship looks pretty nice too.

For that matter I have no problem with most of MSC's names either - again, I think most of them sound nice and they have nice meanings too. I'm not fond of MERAVIGLIA and FAVOLOSA for the same reason as DELIZIOSA - simply because I think naming a ship MARVELOUS, FABULOUS or (most of all) DELICIOUS just sounds dumb in any language.

I will say that MERAVIGLIA sounds much nicer than it looks on paper to non-Italian-speakers who probably do not get the "gli." (I can't really explain how you pronounce "gli" as there is really no equivalent sound in English.)

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Some of the same people put down Pullmantur Cruises for having English words in their ships' names, so what gives?

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Of course it works the other way too, look at VENTURA, a foreign word presumably chosen just because it "sounds nice."

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I love Costa Lunare and Solare....

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Originally posted by Cambodge:
Did old George form a subsidiary in Europe to run ships or what?

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"While Pullman attempted to establish his company in Europe he ultimately could not compete with George Nagelmackers, a Belgian, who formed a sleeping car service, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, that was headquartered in Paris. Pullman sold Nagelmackers his interests and operations in Europe in 1888.

"A company division was formed in England after the Pullman shop in Detroit furnished an English railroad with several cars.

"The Pullman name lives today in Europe, a symbol of elegance and luxury in a hotel chain in several countries and in North Africa. It is not unusual today to see “Pullman” tourist buses on European highways. Of course, these operations never had any connection with the original Pullman Co."

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