Name: Raffaello
Namesake: Raphael
Operator: Italian Line
Port of registry: Genoa, Italy
Builder: Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy
Yard number: 1578
Launched: 24 March 1963
Acquired: July 1965
In service: 10 July 1965
Out of service: 6 June 1975
Fate: Sold to Iran, 1977, where laid up
Status: Partially sunk 1983
Type: ocean liner
Tonnage: 45,933 gross register tons #GRT#
Length: 276.20 m #906 ft 2 in#
Beam: 30.10 m #98 ft 9 in#
Draught: 10.40 m #34 ft 1 in#
Propulsion: 4 × Ansaldo steam turbines
combined 64902 kW
Speed: 26.5 kn #49.08 km/h; 30.50 mph#
Capacity: 1775 passengers
#535 1st Class; 550 Cabin Class; 690 Tourist Class#
Crew: 725
Notes: Sister ship to TS Michelangelo
