Sky Wonder
''Atlantic Star'' (formerly ''FairSky'', ''Sky Princess'', ''Pacific Sky '' and ''Sky Wonder'') was a cruise ship built in 1984. She sailed for Sitmar Cruises, Princess Cruises, P&O Cruises Australia, and Pullmantur Cruises. Under ownership of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., the ship had been laid up since 2010 before being handed over to STX France in 2013 as a partial payment for the construction of what is now, ''Harmony of the Seas''. She was later sold to a shipbreaking, shipbreaker in Aliağa, Turkey, renamed ''Antic'', and scrapped on 14 April 2013. History ''FairSky'' was built in 1984 by Chantiers de Nord et de la Mediterranee of La Seyne-sur-Mer, La Seyne-Sur Mer in France for the Italian cruise company, Sitmar Cruises. In keeping up with the rest of the Sitmar fleet, she was originally named ''FairSky'' and was registered in Liberia. In September 1988, when Sitmar was purchased by P&O Cruises, she was renamed the ''Sky Princess'' for P&O's Princess Cruises subsidiary a ...
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Villefranche-sur-Mer
Villefranche-sur-Mer (, ; oc, Vilafranca de Mar ; it, Villafranca Marittima ) is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region on the French Riviera and is located south-west of the Principality of Monaco, which is just west of the French-Italian border. Geography Villefranche-sur-Mer is immediately to the east of the city of Nice, along Mont Boron, Mont Alban and Mont Vinaigrier, and south-west of Monaco. The bay (''rade'') of Villefranche is one of the deepest natural harbours of any port in the Mediterranean Sea and provides safe anchorage for large ships from easterly winds. Reaching depths of 320 ft (95 m) between the Cape of Nice and Cap Ferrat; it extends to the south to form a 1,700 ft (500 m) abyss known as the undersea Canyon of Villefranche at about one nautical mile off the coastline. The Bay is the place where the American 6th Fleet moors when cruising the Mediterranean Coast. The city limits ext ...
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