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Contact Information:
Seabourn Cruise Line
6100 Blue Lagoon Drive
Suite 400
Miami, FL 33126
(800) 929-9391
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Why Seabourn Cruise Line?
 Outstanding reputation for service
Features exotic itineraries
Attracts well-heeled, experienced travelers
First of two long-awaited newbuilds will arrive in 2009
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About Seabourn Cruise Line
2009 Editors' Picks Awards Winner!
Best Luxury Dining, Best New Luxury Ship (Seabourn Odyssey)
Seabourn Cruise Line was founded in 1987 to compete in the ultra-luxury cruise market. It was originally intended to be named "Signet Cruise Line," but a ferry company in Texas owned that name and refused to give it up. Seabourn's first voyage was in November of 1988 on the newly built Seabourn Pride. Carnival Corp. purchased 25 percent of the company in 1991, an additional 25 percent in 1996, and in 1998, a consortium, which included Carnival Corp., purchased Seabourn and merged its operations with Cunard Line. At that time the fleet included its three present ships plus Seabourn Goddess I and II (which left in 2002 and are now SeaDream Yacht Club's SeaDream I and SeaDream II) and Seabourn Sun (which left in 2002 and is now Holland America's Prinsendam). Carnival Corp. bought the company outright in 1999 and Seabourn became one of their "world's leading cruise lines." The six Carnival Corp's Cunard operations separated from Seabourn's in 2004 and moved to the corporation's newly purchased Princess Cruises (now the seventh of the "world's leading cruise lines"), and Seabourn now operates independently from other Carnival Corp. brands.
Seabourn has ordered three 32,000-ton, 450-passenger vessels to be delivered in 2009, 2010 and 2011, costing $250 million each. The ships will be designed by Bjron Storbraaten -- of Silversea alum -- and built at Genoa's T. Mariotti S.p.A. shipyard. The trio will be "green ships," meaning they will be using wastewater treatment technology. The first, Seabourn Odyssey, debuted in June 2009.
The cruise line garnered worldwide attention in 2005 when Seabourn Spirit successfully fended off machine gun fire and rocket propelled grenades during a pirate attack off the Somalian Coast. Passengers were moved to the dining room and served coffee by the unflappable waiters during the early morning incident -- talk about grace under fire!
Read the complete Seabourn Cruise Line Review
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Read More About Seabourn Cruise Line Ships:
Seabourn Legend
• Seabourn Odyssey
• Seabourn Pride
• Seabourn Quest
• Seabourn Sojourn
• Seabourn Spirit
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