Portuscale Cruises

Portuscale Cruises

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Type	Cruising
Industry	Cruise line
Founded	2013
Headquarters	Lisbon, Portugal
Area served	Europe
Services	Cruises
Owner	Rui Alegre
Website	http://www.portuscalecruises.pt

Portuscale Cruises is a Portuguese shipping company. It is 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, bought from defunct Classic International Cruises in early 2013.

As of 2014, the Funchal is in active service, the Azores is currently under charter to CMV, the Lisboa was under refit due to technicalities with the vessel, but was sold to an unknown italian buyer and shortly after beached at alang india for scrap .and the status of the Porto is laid up; it is unknown when she will enter service.

Fleet

Ship	Built	Tonnage	Status as of 2015	Image
Funchal	1961	9,563 GRT	Formerly a Portuguese passenger liner and presidential yacht. Transferred from Classic International Cruises.	300px
Lisboa	1955	16,335 GRT	Rebuilt 1972. Transferred from Classic International Cruises, where she was the Princess Danae, currently in dry-dock	300px
Porto	1965	5,888 GRT	Originally, the Yugoslavian passenger ship MS Istra. Transferred from Classic International Cruises, where she was the Arion.	300px
Azores	1948	10,603 GRT	Originally, the Swedish ocean liner MS Stockholm, rebuilt 1994, charterted briefly by Phoenix Reisen in 2009. Transferred from Classic International Cruises, where she was the Athena. Long-term service for Cruise & Maritime Voyages.