Wind Song (ship)
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Wind Song was a 4-masted motor sailing yacht used as a cruise ship by Windstar Cruises from 1987 until 2002, when the ship suffered an engine room fire.
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Wind Song in Bora Bora
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History | |
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Name | Wind Song |
Owner | Windstar Cruises Ltd.[1] |
Port of registry | Nassau, Bahamas |
Builder | Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre, Le Havre, France |
Launched | August 1986 |
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Fate | fire onboard on December 1, 2002, scuttled on January 23, 2003 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cruise ship |
Tonnage | 5,307 GT[1] |
Length | 134 m (439.63 ft) |
Beam | 15.8 m (51.84 ft) |
Draught | 4.1 m (13.45 ft) |
Installed power | (3150 kW) |
Speed | 11 knots (20 km/h; 13 mph) |
Capacity | 159 passengers |
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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.