Star Breeze (formerly Seabourn Spirit) is a German-built cruise ship completed in 1989. The luxury liner travels between Europe and Africa, and is owned by Windstar Cruises. In early 2005, she was rated the best small cruise ship by Condé Nast.[5] In April 2015, she departed the Seabourn fleet, and on 6 May 2015 she was rechristened and entered service with Windstar Cruises.[6]
Pirate attack
On 5 November 2005 at 5:50 a.m., while Seabourn Spirit was underway 115 km off the coast of Somalia with 115 passengers, the ship was attacked by two pirate speedboats launched by a mother ship.[7] Both machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) were fired at the ship, and the remains of an RPG's rocket motor wedged itself in the wall of a room and was disarmed by sailors from USS Gonzalez (DDG-66) after the attack.[8]