Pacific Sky's Final Voyage

Sad photo attached. http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlejour2/AujourleJour-348.htm#tklo Website is French but if you scroll down to 20/3/13 you will see photos of Pacific Sky (recently known as Atlantic Star) but now renamed ANTIC by her new owners who are known as wrecking merchants. She is rumoured to be undertow on her final journey from France to Alang in India where she crashed onto that ugly beach and broken up for scrap :(

That is so sad ! The Pacific Sky was the first cruise ship we went on as a family way back in 2004. It was a lovely ship, great atmosphere and we had such a good time we have taken our daughters on another ten cruises since. Have so many happy memories of the Pacific Sky !

Sad photo attached. http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlejour2/AujourleJour-348.htm#tklo Website is French but if you scroll down to 20/3/13 you will see photos of Pacific Sky (recently known as Atlantic Star) but now renamed ANTIC by her new owners who are known as wrecking merchants. She is rumoured to be undertow on her final journey from France to Alang in India where she crashed onto that ugly beach and broken up for scrap :(

Sad news. :mad:

Sad photo attached. http://www.marine-marchande.net/Jourlejour2/AujourleJour-348.htm#tklo Website is French but if you scroll down to 20/3/13 you will see photos of Pacific Sky (recently known as Atlantic Star) but now renamed ANTIC by her new owners who are known as wrecking merchants. She is rumoured to be undertow on her final journey from France to Alang in India where she crashed onto that ugly beach and broken up for scrap :(

This artcile; http://shipsu.com/2012/12/cruise-ship-atlantic-star-as-part-of-the-consideration/ makes it sound like it's been sold as part of the funding for the third Oasis Class ship for RCCL, as RCCL owns Pullmantur Cruises, the current owners of Atlantic Star.

This artcile; http://shipsu.com/2012/12/cruise-ship-atlantic-star-as-part-of-the-consideration/ makes it sound like it's been sold as part of the funding for the third Oasis Class ship for RCCL, as RCCL owns Pullmantur Cruises, the current owners of Atlantic Star.

Given Atlantic Star (or Pacific Sky as we believe she is properly known) would only be worth $5m for scrap and an Oasis class ship would be $600m+, this sounds like spin from RCI with no basis in reality

Sad news.

Pacific Sky was the start of P&O Australia and led the way for what cruising has become today.

Her time had come....

Sad news.

Pacific Sky was the start of P&O Australia and led the way for what cruising has become today.

Her time had come....

 

 

Long before Pacific Sky was P&O Fairstar. This was the first ship and cruised for many many years. P&O were the only cruise company cruising from Sydney back then. Use to go on the Fairstar every year. It was small in comparison to todays ships but boy was she a party ship. Never a dull moment on the old Fairstar

Long before Pacific Sky was P&O Fairstar. This was the first ship and cruised for many many years. P&O were the only cruise company cruising from Sydney back then. Use to go on the Fairstar every year. It was small in comparison to todays ships but boy was she a party ship. Never a dull moment on the old Fairstar

Fairstar was fun but Pacific Sky was the beginning of the modern cruise industry in Australia where we got more modern ships that offered the kinds of facilities expected around the world.

Pacific Sky served as Sky Princess immediately before joining P&O doing the seasonal NZ Princess cruises now done by the Grand Class ships. A US tourist could have cruised on Pacific Ky and been generally happy even though it lacked some of the most current features of the time.

This was not the case with Fairstar where many cabins lacked their own facilities which wasn't a huge problem given its main claim to fame was that you would "share" more than one cabin during the cruise.