page_title: Renaissance Cruises
section_title: Renaissance class
hierarchical_section_title: Renaissance Cruises / Classes / Renaissance class
caption_attribution_description: English: Corinthian II in harbor of Rethymno port (Greece, Crete) Русский: Corinthian II в порту Ретимно (Греция, Крит)
context_page_description: Renaissance Cruises was a cruise ship operating company that was founded in 1989 and owned by Fearnley & Eger Rederi in Oslo, Norway. It was purchased by Edward Rudner as the company faltered during the Gulf War. It operated year-round cruise itineraries to the Mediterranean Sea, the Greek Isles, Tahiti and the South Pacific, northern Europe and Scandinavia. The company ceased operations on 25 September 2001, having accommodated up to 220,000 guests in 2000. While the company had been in poor financial health for quite some time, the economic decline resulting from the September 11 attacks in 2001 is credited with the demise of this cruise line. It was headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
context_section_description: The company also owned and operated eight "Renaissance" class yacht-like ships between 1989 and 1998. The first four of them were built in Cantieri Navale Ferrari-Signani shipyards in La Spezia, Italy, from 1989 to 1991. They were 88.3m long, and 4077grt in size, and they carried 100 passengers in 50 cabins, with 72 crew. The other four were built in Nuovi Cantieri Apuania shipyards in Carrara, Italy, in the same period. They were 90.6m long and 4200grt in size, and they carried 114 passengers in 57 cabins with 72 crew. The small, intimately sized vessels used Roman numeral designations as part of their names: Renaissance I through Renaissance VIII.
  These are the current names, former names and registries of the "Renaissance" Class ships
  Renaissance I, Renaissance III, Renaissance IV, and Renaissance VIII were all chartered and sold in 1998 so the line could concentrate on the larger, newer "R-Class".  Before the line folded for the R-Class, Renaissance V, Renaissance VI, and Renaissance VII were sold to other interests. Renaissance II was renamed Neptune II In 1998 for operations in Singapore before EasyCruise was formed. Current operators of these vessels include Noble-Caledonia, Silversea, and Antarctica XXI.
  These are the current names, former names and registries of the "Renaissance" Class ships:
  Dubawi: (a) Renaissance I (b) The Mercury (c) Leisure World (d) Dubawi. Now sailing as a yacht.
  Cruise One: (a) Renaissance II (b) Neptune II (c) EasyCruiseOne.  Sold in 2008 as Cruise One, currently inoperative - owned by the same owner as Dubawi and used exclusively for spare parts.
  Silver Galapagos: (a) Renaissance III (b) Galapagos Explorer II, (1990) Galapagos Inc., Ecuador (c) Silver Galapagos; from 2013, Silversea Expeditions.
  Corinthian: (a) Renaissance IV (b) Clelia II (1998), Troodos (c) Orion II (d) Corinthian from 2013, Travel Dynamics Int.
  Sea Spirit: (a) Renaissance V (b) Sun Viva (1997), Sun Cruise (c) MegaStar Sagittarius (2000), Star Cruises (d) Spirit of Oceanus (2000), Cruise West (e) Sea Spirit (2010), Quark Expeditions, AdventureSmith Explorations.
  Caledonian Sky: (a) Renaissance VI (b) Sun Viva 2 (1997), Sun cruise (c) MegaStar Capricorn (2000), Star Cruises (d) Hebridean Spirit (2000) (e) Caledonian Sky (2012), Noble-Caledonia.
  Hebridean Sky: (a) Renaissance VII (b) Renai I (c) Island Sun (d) Corinthian II (1991) (e) Sea Explorer (f) Hebridean Sky (2016), Noble-Caledonia
  Island Sky: (a) Renaissance VIII (b) Renai II (c) Island Sky (1992), Noble-Caledonia, Bahamas.
caption: Renaissance VII as Corinthian II
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