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Seabourn Cruise Line Overview

Overview Seabourn is one of the most influential brands in modern luxury cruising, known for defining the small ship, high service model that many competitors later adopted. The line was founded in 1986 and quickly built a reputation around intimate…

EXCLUSIVE: Carnival to Sell Off Brands?

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There’s a rumor going around the industry that Carnival Corp are looking to sell the Cunard and Seabourn brands. The two lines could leave in a package deal. Carnival already announced that 9 ships would leave the fleet, then the…

Seabourn Agrees to Build Two Expedition Vessels at T. Mariotti

Carnival Corp.’s ultra luxury brand Seabourn, have just announced that they will be building two new expedition vessels at Italy’s T. Mariotti yard. Each ship will be 23,000gt and carry 264 pax. They’re scheduled to be handed over in 2021 and…

First Look: Seabourn Ovation

Seabourn Odyssey

Seabourn Cruise Line is undoubtedly one of the top cruise lines in the world. They’re nestled in the category of ultra-luxury and definitely live up to it. Their latest flagship, the Seabourn Ovation has just been delivered so let’s take…

Seabourn Announces Names of Upcoming Ships

Seabourn Odyssey

Seabourn has announced that it’s two newest ships will be named Seabourn Encore and Seabourn Ovation. They will launch in late 2016 and early 2018 respectively. Both ships will be based on the Odyssey class but will both be slightly larger. They’ll…

Seabourn Announces Construction of a Second Newbuild

Seabourn Odyssey

Seabourn Cruise Lines have announced that they officially picked up the option for a second ship set to debut in 2018. These two ships will be slightly larger than the current Odyssey class ships. Full presser from Seabourn: Seabourn has…

Seabourn and Fincantieri Agree on Newbuild

Seabourn Odyssey

Seattle based ultra luxary brand Seabourn Cruises has announced that they have reached and agreement with  Fincantieri S.p.A. in Italy. She will be based on the Odyssey class of ships, launched in 2009 with the Odyssey (pictured above). The new ship…

New Ship Order for Seabourn

It was just announced that ultra-luxary brand Seabourn cruises has a MOU in place for the construction of a 4th Odyssey class ship. The 32,000gt ship will be constructed at Italy’s Fincantieri yard. She has a planned entry into service…

Seabourn Fleet Reshuffle

Seabourn has announced that they have sold their three older vessels. The Seabourn Pride, Seabourn Spirit and Seabourn Legend will all be headed to once-sister brand Windstar. The new ships will add motorized vessels to Winstar’s fleet of “sailing” vessels.…

Seabourn Selling their Ships?

Rumor has it that Seabourn has some ‘feelers’ out there to see if there are any interested buyers. So far it looks like they are just trying to dump some older tonnage i.e. the 3 older sisters, Pride, Spirit and…

Seabourn Takes Delivery of Seabourn Quest

Seabourn took delivery of the new 450-guest Seabourn Quest today at the T. Mariotti shipyard in Genoa, Italy. The intimate, all-suite ship is the third vessel constructed by Mariotti for Seabourn’s fleet, completing a three-year expansion that increased the ultra-luxury…

Luxury Cruise Operator Get Their Newest Ship

Leaving T.Mariotti in Italy upon completion of outfitting. The Seabourn Sojourn was formally handed over from the ship yard to the line. This is the final step in the construction of the vessel and the first step for her new…