MV Regent Sky
cruise ship built in 2008
MV Regent Sky was an unfinished cruise ship that travelled to several locations during her incomplete construction. She was initially being built in Poland as the cruise ferry Stena Baltica, one of four sister ships planned for the Stena Line. Still incomplete, she was purchased by Regency Cruises and moved to Greece, but her new owners filed for bankruptcy in 1995.
The unfinished ship was sold for scrap in July 2011.
History
Regent Sky was originally ordered in 1979 and laid down in 1985 under the name Stena Baltica. She was one of four fairly identical cruise ferries being built by Stocznia im Lenina, in Gdańsk, a Polish seaport on the Baltic coast, for Stena Line, Stena Germanica, Stena Scandinavica and Stena Polonica. In 1986, her construction was cancelled (and her sisters delayed) because of problems with the shipyard.
The unfinished hull was purchased in 1989 by A. Lelakis, owner of Regency Cruises. Regency planned to put her into service as their first new ship, having previously purchased and converted ocean liners. Stena Baltica was towed to the Avlis Shipyards at Perama, Greece (also owned by Lelakis), where a US$200 million process to convert her into a cruise ship began.
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