Owner Portuscale Cruises Launched 1954 Draft 7.65 m Builder Harland and Wolff | Christened 1955 Length 162 m Beam 21 m | |
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Name Port Melbourne (1955-1972)
Therisos Express (1972?-1975?)
Danae (1975-1992)
Starlight Express (1992?-1994?)
Baltica (1994-1996)
Princess Danae (1996-2013)
Lisboa (2013-2015) Namesake Lisbon (Lisboa in Portuguese) Operator Port Line (1955-1972)
Delian Cruises (1975-1979)
Costa Cruises (1979-1990)
Prestige Cruises (1990-1992)
Classic International Cruises (1996-2012)
Portuscale Cruises (2013)
Unknown French Operator (2015) Port of registry 1955–1972 London, United Kingdom
1994–2001 Panama City, Panama
2001–2015 Madeira, Portugal | ||
MV Lisboa was a Portuguese cruise liner owned by Portuscale Cruises. 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.
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 non-payment of a fuel bill. Early in 2013, she was bought by the recently created Portuguese cruise company Portuscale Cruises and renamed Lisboa. Ship arrived in Aliağa at Shipbroker for dismantling.
Her sister ship is the Princess Daphne, built as the Port Sydney.