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	LOI
	Building contract
	Building started
10/4/1966	Keel laid
29/9/1966	Launch
	Sea trial
	Second sea trial
15/3/1967	Delivered to Rederi Ab Svenska Lloyd, Göteborg, Sweden.
5/4/1967	Southampton – Bilbao route.
1/9/1977	Laid up at Göteborg for sale.
1/9/1978	Sold to Stena Line Ab, Göteborg, Sweden. New name Stena Oceanica.
30/10/1978	Rebuild by Smith’s Dock, Co Ltd, Tyneside, UK. Build higher cargodeck and new passenger areas.
3/1979	Rebuilding continued on Götaverken, Göteborg.
4/1979	New name Stena Saga.
28/5/1979	Oslo – Frederikshavn route.
8/1983	Owner Stena Ab, Göteborg.
5/1988	Charter to Lion Ferry Ab. New name Lion Queen.
17/5/1988	Rebuild by Verft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg.
9/6/1988	Halmstad – Grenå route.
8/1988	Helsingborg – Grenå route.
23/11/1989	Rebuild by Werft Nobiskrug, Rendsburg,
14/3/1990	New name Crown Princess Victoria. Voyage to Canada.
5/1990	Owner Stena Line of Canada Ltd, Victoria, BC, Canada.
5/5/1990	Victoria, Canada – Seattle, USA route.
18/10/1990	Laid up. New owner Stena Crown Princess Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas. New name Crown Princess.
12/1990	Charter to Starlite Cruises, Piraeus, Greece. New name Pacific Star.
23/12/1990	San Diego – Ensenada, Mexico route, casino cruises.
6/1993	Charter to Sun Fiesta Cruises. New name Sun Fiesta. Port Everglades – Freeport casino cruises.
1993	Rebuild in Piraeus
2/1994	Owner Stena Ab, Göteborg, Sweden.
4/3/1994	Refurbished on Öresundsvarvet.
10/3/1994	Charter to Lion Ferry Ab. New name Lion Queen.
1/4/1994	Halmstad – Grenå route.
19/5/1995	Karlskrona – Gdynia route. Home port Gdynia, Poland.
19/6/1997	Laid up at Gdynia.
9/1997	Sold to New Century Cruise Lines (Sembawang Holdings Group), Nassau, Bahamas.
11/1997	Refurbished by Sembawang Betlehem Yard, Singapore.
11/1997	New Century´s Leisure World service. Singapore – Batam route. Cancelled after two weeks.
11/1997	Sold to Rederi Ab Hornet, Stockholm, Sweden. (Kingsway Shipping Pty. Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas).
12/1997	Rebuild by Sembawang Betlehem Yard, Singapore. Build casino to cargo deck.
12/1997	New name Putri Bintang. Casino cruises on Malaysia.
2/1998	Sold to Earth Star Profits Ltd, Nassau, Bahamas. New name Amusement World
2/1998	Operated New Century Cruise Line. Casino cruises from Singapore.
10/3/1998	Casino cruises from Kukup, Malaysia
2000	Build larger Casino
2002	Singapore – Malaysia – Thailand service.
2004	Cruises from Penang.
20/11/2005	Sold to Jackson Maritime Ltd (Universal Shipmanagement Pte Ltd), Singapore. Homeport Funafuti, Tuvalu.
9/2012	Palau flag.

12/2015	Panama flag.
6/8/2020	Laid up outside of Singapore.
26/4/2021	Sold to scrap
27/5/2021	Homeport Basseterre, St Kitts & Nevis. New name World Final voyage to India.