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MS Antonia Graza is a fictional Italian ocean liner created for the 2002 horror film Ghost Ship. In the story she was launched in 1954 as a glamorous Italian Line vessel, fitted with a ballroom, lounges, a dining hall, pool, and broad decks. She carried over 600 passengers and 500 crew, and was portrayed as a symbol of postwar Italian elegance. Her fictional fate came on May 21, 1962, when during a grand ball a steel cable snapped and cut through the dance floor, killing many. Soon after, the liner vanished without a trace, leaving only mystery in her wake.
In the film’s plot, the wreck is discovered drifting in the Bering Strait by the salvage tug Arctic Warrior. Inside, the crew finds boxes of gold and encounters the ship’s ghosts, including Katie Harwood, the sole child survivor of the massacre. The vessel becomes a stage for betrayal and supernatural horror, with Jack Ferriman revealed as a demonic figure using the ship as a trap for souls. By the end, Maureen Epps destroys the liner with explosives to break the curse, though Ferriman’s work is shown to continue. Inspired visually by the real SS Andrea Doria, the Antonia Graza remains one of cinema’s most memorable imagined liners, blending maritime grandeur with Gothic terror.
In the film’s plot, the wreck is discovered drifting in the Bering Strait by the salvage tug Arctic Warrior. Inside, the crew finds boxes of gold and encounters the ship’s ghosts, including Katie Harwood, the sole child survivor of the massacre. The vessel becomes a stage for betrayal and supernatural horror, with Jack Ferriman revealed as a demonic figure using the ship as a trap for souls. By the end, Maureen Epps destroys the liner with explosives to break the curse, though Ferriman’s work is shown to continue. Inspired visually by the real SS Andrea Doria, the Antonia Graza remains one of cinema’s most memorable imagined liners, blending maritime grandeur with Gothic terror.
