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34-612: Founded by ship entrepreneur Karl G. Andrén, the line was established as Windstar Sail Cruises in 1984, and its first ship, the Wind Star was launched in 1986, and was followed by the Wind Song which was launched in 1987 and Wind Spirit which was launched in 1988. Two additional ships were ordered from the French "Sociéte Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre" shipyard: the Wind Surf and

68-702: A $ 17 million, three-week dry dock in Genoa, Italy, before a christening ceremony in May. In 2016, Star Pride underwent a renovation to refurbish public spaces, expand the outdoor seating of the Veranda restaurant and remodeled the AmphorA restaurant. In June 2018, Star Legend became the largest cruise ship to ever travel through Seattle's Ballard Locks and the Lake Washington Ship Canal. In November 2018, Windstar announced that

102-412: A first-hand passenger account, an engine room fire forced passengers into lifeboats at 3:15 a.m. where they'd hoped to stay only until the fire was under control. At 5:04 a.m. a small explosion was heard from the front of the ship and the captain gave the order to abandon ship. All 127 passengers and 92 crew members were evacuated safely. Passengers were transported by fast ferry to Raiatea ,

136-485: A nearby island where they arrived at approx 8 a.m. Over the course of that day, they were flown on scheduled and charter Air Tahiti flights to Papeete. The French Navy put out the fire and towed the ship to Papeete , where examination showed extensive damage to engineering spaces, although the passenger areas were mostly intact. Subsequently the Navy demanded compensation for its services, and French Polynesian government seized

170-516: A two-day auction and Anschutz Corporation won Windstar Cruises with a bid of $ 39 million. Subsidiary Xanterra Travel Collection is now the parent company. In 2013 Windstar completed the purchase of Seabourn Cruise Line 's Star Pride , Star Legend , and Star Breeze . Star Pride entered service on May 5, 2014 with an inaugural cruise from Barcelona, after some upgrades. In May 2015, Windstar increased its fleet from four yachts to six with Star Breeze and Star Legend . Both yachts underwent

204-599: Is a comune including six of seven islands of the Aeolian Islands (Lipari, Vulcano , Panarea , Stromboli , Filicudi and Alicudi ) and it is located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the northern coast of Sicily , Southern Italy ; it is administratively part of the Metropolitan City of Messina . Its population is 12,821, but during the May to September tourist season, the total population may reach up to 20,000. It

238-555: Is almost due west across the island, Quattropani in the northwest, Acquacalda along the northern coast, whereas Canneto is on the eastern shore north of Lipari town. The highest point on the island is Monte Chirica at 602 m (1975 ft). Geologists agree on the fact that Lipari (island) was created by a succession of four volcanic movements, the most extensive of which was the third one, presumably lasting from 20,000 BC to 13,000 BC. A further vast phenomenon should have happened around 9000 BC. The last recorded eruptions occurred in

272-429: Is also the name of the biggest island in the archipelago, where the main urban area of the comune is located. Lipari Island is the largest of a chain of islands in a volcanic archipelago situated in between Vesuvius and Etna . The island has a surface area of 89.72 km and is 30 km from Sicily. Besides the main town, most of the year-round population resides in one of the four main villages: Pianoconte

306-791: The Angevins , and then the Aragonese , until Carlos I , the Aragonese King, became the Spanish King, and was then quickly crowned Holy Roman Emperor Charles V . In 1544, Hayreddin Barbarossa , together with the French fleet of Captain Polin under a Franco-Ottoman alliance , ransacked Lipari and enslaved the entire population. Jérôme Maurand lamented about the depredation to his Christian fellow men during

340-532: The Etruscans for control of the Tyrrhenian Sea . The town was initially concentrated upon the summit of the rock which played the role of acropolis, seat of religious cults and of public life, but in the course of the first century of its existence, an increase in the population necessitated an expansion into the area at the foot of the rocky slopes and on to the top of the Civita hill. A first city wall, built sometime in

374-519: The Roman Empire it was a place of retreat and exile and was enjoyed because of its thermal baths using natural springs. The Emperor Caracalla sent his wife, Fulvia Plautilla , and her brother, Plautius, into exile here for the rest of their lives. Many objects recovered from old wrecks are now in the Aeolian Museum of Lipari. Lipari was probably an episcopal see from the 3rd century onward, with

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408-510: The Wind Saga . These two ships were to be larger than the originals, holding over twice the number of passengers and reaching a length of 660 feet (200 m), compared to the smaller vessels of 440 feet (130 m) in length. Holland America Line (HAL) purchased 50% of Windstar Sail Cruises in 1987 and purchased the balance of the company in 1988. HAL became a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc in 1989. The option to continue building

442-539: The Wind Song . However, both Holland America Line (owner of Windstar Cruises at the time, itself a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc ) and Carnival Corporation & plc was unwilling to pay the costs involved, and even scrapping was uneconomical, because of the ship's small size and remoteness from shipbreakers in India, China, and elsewhere. On January 22, 2003, with the agreement of Holland America and Carnival,

476-567: The Wind Surf and the Wind Saga was passed up by HAL. With assistance from the French Government these two larger ships were built for Club Med as Club Med I and Club Med II , with HAL / Carnival retaining rights of first refusal for purchase. A few years later, HAL / Carnival planned to buy the Club Med I and the Club Med II with permission. However, Windstar cruises was unable to purchase

510-492: The polis entered a three-way alliance which included Dionysios' new colony at Tyndaris . Lipara prospered, but in 304 BC Agathokles took the town by treachery and is said to have lost all of his pillage from it in a storm at sea. Lipara became a Carthaginian naval base during the first Punic War , but fell to Roman forces in 252–251 BC. It was occupied by Agrippa in Octavian 's campaign against Sextus Pompeius . Under

544-529: The 5th century AD when airborne pumice , together with volcanic ash , covered the Roman villages of the island. The volcanoes are considered active, and steaming fumaroles and hydrothermal activity may still be seen. As a result of its volcanic origin, the island is covered with pumice and obsidian . Pumice mining has become a large industry on Lipari, and the pale pumice from Lipari is shipped worldwide. In Neolithic times Lipari was, much like Sardinia , one of

578-400: The 5th century BC was erected along outcrops at the bottom of the slopes of the rock, leaving outside the modern district of Diana, which was destined from the beginning to accommodate the city necropolis. A second city wall was built in the 4th century BC to enclose the new residential area bounded to the north and south by the river-beds of Santa Lucia and Ponte, which in ancient times ran into

612-694: The President of the Territorial Government of French Polynesia, Gaston Flosse , ordered the scuttling of the Wind Song . That night the ship was towed into the Sea of the Moon between Tahiti and Moorea and sunk in 9,843 feet of water, at latitude 17.45S, longitude 149.48W. Lipari 38°30′06″N 14°56′01″E  /  38.50167°N 14.93361°E  / 38.50167; 14.93361 Lipari ( Italian: [ˈliːpari] ; Sicilian : Lìpari )

646-475: The acropolis dating from the 18th c. BC and underlying the ancient Roman town. In the 13th century BC, the islands were settled by Ausinian peoples from the coasts of Campania , who introduced the myth of King Liparus from whom the town’s name derives. In the Mycenaean Period, Lipari has yielded pottery from LHI to LHIII . Lipari's continuous occupation may have been interrupted violently when in

680-441: The bridge (though not when entering or leaving port). With a shallow draft of only 14 feet (4.3 m), the ships can enter ports that are inaccessible to larger cruise liners. In some cases, passengers need to take smaller boats into port (such as to Lipari ) when the ship is at anchor. Msy Wind Song Wind Song was a 4-masted motor sailing yacht used as a cruise ship by Windstar Cruises from 1987 until 2002, when

714-431: The campaign at Lipari: "To see so many poor Christians, and especially so many little boys and girls [enslaved] caused a very great pity." He also mentioned "the tears, wailings and cries of these poor Lipariotes, the father regarding his son and the mother her daughter... weeping while leaving their own city in order to be brought into slavery by those dogs who seemed like rapacious wolves amidst timid lambs". A number of

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748-527: The charter agreement in December 2026. The ships are relatively small, with the Wind Surf having a capacity for about 300 passengers, and the others about 150. Star Pride carries up to 212 passengers in 106 suites as well as sister ships Star Legend and Star Breeze. The ships are registered in the Bahamas . Under this flag they are some of the few cruise ships in the world where passengers are still allowed on

782-469: The citizens were ransomed in Messina and eventually returned to the islands. Charles V then had his Spanish subjects repopulate the island and build the massive city walls atop the walls of the ancient Greek acropolis in 1556. The walls created a mighty fortress still standing today. The acropolis, high above the main town, was a safe haven for the populace in the event of a raid. While these walls protected

816-411: The few centres of trading in obsidian , a hard black volcanic glass prized by Neolithic peoples for the extremely sharp cutting edges that can be obtained. Lipari's history is rich in incidents as witnessed by the recent retrievals of several necropoli and other archaeological sites. Humans seem to have inhabited the island already in 5000 BC, though a local legend gives the eponymous name Liparus to

850-563: The first bishop being St. Agatone, who, according to tradition, had found the sacred remains in his cathedral. The presence of the relics has been attested since at least 546. In the 9th century, Sicily was conquered by the Arabs , and soon Saracen pirates began to raid across the Tyrrhenian Sea , with dramatic effects for Lipari. In 839 the Saracens slaughtered much of the population, the relics of St. Bartholomew were moved to Benevento , and Lipari

884-534: The late 9th century BC an Ausonian civilization site was burned and apparently not rebuilt. Many household objects have been retrieved from the charred site. Greek colonists from Knidos arrived at Lipara ~580 BC after their first colonization attempt in Sicily failed and their leader, Pentathlos, was killed. They settled on the site of the village now known as Castello in Magna Graecia . The colony successfully fought

918-514: The leader of a people coming from Campania . In the early Bronze Age , at the end of the third millennium BC, new settlers of Aeolian origin came from Mycenaean Greece, giving their name to the islands. They had already settled in Metapontum in Italy and used the islands as outposts for controlling trading routes through the strait of Messina . Successive domestic buildings have been excavated on

952-487: The main town, it was not safe to live on the rest of the island until Mediterranean piracy was largely eradicated, which did not occur until the 19th century. From the 1920s to the 1940s, the Lipari islands were used for the confinement of political prisoners, including Emilio Lussu , Curzio Malaparte , Carlo Rosselli , Giuseppe Ghetti, and Edda Mussolini . During the 1930s, the islands were used to detain exiled members of

986-458: The ship suffered an engine room fire. Wind Song was one of an unusual class of only three vessels ( Wind Star , Wind Spirit and Wind Song ), designed as a modern cruise ship but carrying an elaborate system of computer-controlled sails on four masts . The ship's usual itinerary was an inter-island cruise in French Polynesia and in the Bahamas . On December 1, 2002, according to

1020-544: The ships and rename them to Wind Surf and the Wind Saga because they had only enough money to purchase one ship. So in 1998, Windstar acquired the sail cruiser Club Med I from Club Med Cruises , and rechristened her to her original name Wind Surf . In March 2007, Carnival sold Windstar to Ambassadors International for $ 100 million. On April 1, 2011, Windstar's parent company Ambassadors International filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy . A bankruptcy court in Delaware held

1054-628: The three "Star Class" ships— Star Pride , Star Breeze and Star Legend —would be lengthened by 84 feet (26 m). The work is part of the company's $ 250 million USD 'Star Plus' initiative. The work took place at Fincantieri 's shipyard in Palermo, Italy. In 2019, Windstar was named the Best Small Ship Cruise Line by AFAR readers and Condé Nast Traveler's Readers' Choice Awards. In October 2019, Windstar Cruises announced that it would begin offering cruises to Alaska in 2021. In April 2024, it

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1088-476: The two bays at the foot of the rock. The city wall ran near the two river-beds and then joined on to the Acropolis and the Civita hill. The mighty fortification, of which some traces are visible today in the district of Diana, divided the town from the necropolis. Carthaginian forces succeeded in holding the site briefly during their struggles with Dionysios I, tyrant of Syracuse in 394 BC, but once they were gone

1122-461: Was announced Windstar would be adding two more ships to its fleet by 2026. The first of which being Windstar's first ever new build, the Star Seeker which was originally order for Atlas Ocean Voyages as World Seeker and will enter service in December 2025. The second, Star Explorer is currently sailing as World Explorer and is on charter to Quark Expeditions . This ship will enter service at the end of

1156-566: Was eventually almost totally abandoned. The Normans conquered the Arabs throughout Sicily between 1060 and 1090, and repopulated the island once their rule was secure. The Lipari episcopal seat was reinstated in 1131. Though still plagued by pirate raids, the island was continually populated from this time onward. Rule of the island was passed from the Normans to the Hohenstaufen Kings, followed by

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