The MS ''Princess Danae'' was a cruise liner. The ship was designed by Harland & Wolff as a freighter in Belfast built and ran in 1954 as ''Port Melbourne'', a fast cargo liner for Port Line's UK-Australia express service. She was planned to be rebuilt as a car ferry, the ''Therisos Express'', but instead became the cruise ship ''Danae''. In later years, she was named ''Starlight Express'', ''Baltica'', and then ''Princess Danae''. Costa Danae

From 1994 until 2012, the ship was operated by Classic International Cruises as the ''Princess Danae''. In late summer of 2012, the ship was detained in Dublin, Ireland for the non-payment of a fuel bill. Early in 2013, she was bought by the recently created Portuguese cruise company

Portuscale Cruises Portuscale Cruises was a Portugal, Portuguese shipping company. It was the first Portuguese company specifically dedicated to maritime cruises. Portuscale Cruises spent 20 million euros in the refurbishment of its fleet of four cruise ships, bough ...

and renamed ''Lisboa''. She was scrapped at Aliağa on 24 July 2015. Her sister ship was the ''

Princess Daphne Princess Daphne may refer to: * Princess Daphne (''Dragon's Lair''), a character from ''Dragon's Lair'' * Princess Daphne (ship), a 1954 former vessel {{Disambiguation ...

'', built as ''Port Sydney''.

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