Pacific Sky
Sky Wonder at Villefranche, November 2007.
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| Builder: | La Seyne-Sur Mer , France |
| Christened: | March 1984 |
| In service: | 1984–2013 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 8024026 |
| Fate: | Broken up |
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| Tonnage: | 46,087 GT |
| Length: | 240 m (790 ft) |
| Beam: | 29.8 m (98 ft) |
| Draft: | 8 m (26 ft) |
| Decks: | 11 |
| Installed power: | Three steam turbines; 29,500 shp |
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| Capacity: | 1,250 passengers |
| Crew: | 600 |
Atlantic Star (formerly FairSky, Pacific Sky, Sky Princess and Sky Wonder) was a cruise ship built in 1984. She sailed for Sitmar Cruises, Princess Cruises, P&O Cruises Australia, and Pullmantur Cruises. Laid up since 2010, the ship was handed over to STX France in 2013 as a partial payment for the new Oasis-class cruise ship. Later, she was reportedly sold to a shipbreaker in Aliağa, Turkey, and renamed Antic.
FairSky was built in 1984 by Chantiers de Nord et de la Mediterranee of La Seyne-Sur Mer in France for the Italian cruise company Sitmar Cruises. In keeping up with the rest of the Sitmar fleet, she was originally named Fairsky and was registered in Liberia. In September 1988, when Sitmar was purchased by P&O Cruises, she was renamed the Sky Princess for P&O's Princess Cruises subsidiary and re-registered in London.
In October 2000, she was transferred to P&O Cruises Australia under the name Pacific Sky. Replacing the 1957-built Fair Princess, Pacific Sky's modernised facilities made her popular with Australian cruise passengers. Between 2000 and 2006, Pacific Sky carried 275,000 passengers on 200 cruises. Her popularity prompted the expansion of the P&O Australia fleet to include Pacific Sun (2004), Pacific Dawn (November 2007), Pacific Jewel (2009) and Pacific Pearl (2010).
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