Home Lines ordered her in 1982 from the CNIM-yard, France and took her into service as Atlantic. In 1988 sold to Premier Cruises and renamed Starship Atlantic. MSC Cruises acquired her in 1997 and she stays with them until 2013 when the fleet is being moderrnized. During a repositioning voyage from Durban to Genoa in April 2009 she is attacked by Somali pirates near the Seychelles, but crew and passengers succeed in fighting them off. Sold to Sahara India Pariwar in 2013 for use as an acoommodation vessel for workers. While docked in Goa, India she partially sinks after being hit by a severe storm and monsoon rains. Refloated by a salvage company and sold for scrap. She was beached in mid-2019 in Alang, India.

23 photographs (2001 ship visit in Barcelona)