The MS Princess Danae was a cruise liner . The ship was designed by Harland & Wolff as a freighter in Belfast built and ran in 1954 as Port Melbourne , a fast cargo liner for Port Line's UK-Australia express service. She was planned to be rebuilt as a car ferry, the Therisos Express , but instead became the cruise ship Danae . In later years, she was named Starlight Express , Baltica , and then Princess Danae .
5-514: From 1994 until 2012, the ship was operated by Classic International Cruises as the Princess Danae . In late summer of 2012, the ship was detained in Dublin , Ireland for the non-payment of a fuel bill. Early in 2013, she was bought by the recently created Portuguese cruise company Portuscale Cruises and renamed Lisboa . She was scrapped at Aliağa on 24 July 2015. Her sister ship was
10-515: The Princess Daphne , built as Port Sydney . This article about a specific cruise ship is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Classic International Cruises Classic International Cruises was a British-Australian owned shipping company operating five luxury cruise ships, most notably its flagship, the rebuilt ocean liner Athena . The company only operated cruise ships that are former ocean liners,
15-572: The classic ships of their day (hence the company's name). Classic International Cruises was seemingly founded in 1985, with the purchase of Funchal as the Arcalia Shipping Company Ltd, which eventually became Classic International. They operated the one ship until 1994, when they bought the Princess Danae . The Princess Danae entered service with an all-white hull and a sailing ship logo on her funnel. Funchal
20-556: The line, the company's four ships, Princess Danae , Princess Daphne , Athena & Arion were all arrested, the only ship not arrested was Funchal which was laid up pending refurbishment for SOLAS. On 20 December 2012, it was resolved to place the company into liquidation . In the beginning of 2013, the recently created cruise company Portuscale Cruises , led by the Portuguese entrepreneur Rui Alegre, bought Princess Danae , Athena , Arion and Funchal , assuming as well
25-611: Was given a yellow and blue striped funnel and a white hull, but by 2000 her livery was changed to what now all Classic International ships have. Since 2000 they have purchased 3 ships, Arion , Athena and Princess Daphne , the near-identical sister of Princess Danae . With their main headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal , the company also has several branches based in Paris, France , Piraeus, Greece , Neutral Bay, Australia , Stockholm , Sweden , and London, England . Due to unpaid bills by
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