Yard number 1065 Construction started 1 December 1987 Length 133 m Beam 20 m | Laid down 1 December 1987 Launched 1988 Draft 5.42 m Builder Schichau Seebeckwerft | |
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Name 1988-2014 Seabourn Pride
2014-present Star Pride Owner 1988-2014 Seabourn Cruise Line Limited
2014-Present Windstar Cruises Operator 1988-2014 Seabourn Cruise Line
Windstar Cruises 2014-present Port of registry 1988–2001 Oslo, Norway
2001-Present Nassau, Bahamas | ||
Star Pride , is one of three German built cruise ships, that were initially built for Seabourn Cruise Line. She was known as Seabourn Pride and is now operated for Windstar Cruises and was the first of her class.
Seabourn Pride set out on her maiden voyage in November, 1988 as Seabourn Pride, after being christened by Shirley Temple Black.
She is identical to her sister ships Seabourn Legend and Seabourn Spirit, the latter gaining attention when her sister, Seabourn Spirit was attacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia, in November 2005. Like her sister ships, Seabourn Pride is fitted with a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), designed as a non-lethal method to fend off attackers. During 2005, she was refurbished along with the other two vessels owned by Seabourn Cruise Line, to keep up with the luxurious image of Seabourn Cruise Line.
In 2006, a Forbes.com article declared Seabourn Pride's New Year cruise as the most expensive in its category
In 2013 Windstar Cruises announced that Seabourn Pride would be renamed Star Pride. The ship's former owner, Seabourn Cruise Line was her operator until the transfer was completed in May, 2014. She departed the Seabourn fleet on March 30, 2014 and entered service for Windstar Cruises on May 5, 2014.
On December 22, 2015, the Star Pride hit a reef near the pacific coast of Panama. The passengers and crew were stranded for over 15 hours on Coiba, a Panamanian island and national park. The passengers were rescued by another Windstar boat, the Star Breeze, and Paul Gauguin's ship, the Tere Moana. She was salvaged and put back into service on June 9, 2016.
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