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The '''msy ''Wind Song''''' was a 4-masted [[motor sailing yacht]] used as a [[cruise ship]] by [[Windstar Cruises]] from 1987 until 2002, when the ship suffered an engine room fire.
 
The ''Wind Song'' was one of an unusual class of only three vessels ([[{{Ship||Wind Star (|ship)|msy ''Wind Star'']]2}}, [[msy {{Ship||Wind Spirit|msy ''Wind Spirit'']]ship|2}} and msy ''Wind Song''), designed as a modern cruise ship but carrying an elaborate system of computer-controlled [[sail]]s on four [[mast (sailing)|mast]]s. The ship's usual itinerary was an inter-island cruise in [[French Polynesia]] and in the [[Bahamas]].
 
== Fire ==
On December 1, 2002, according to a first-hand passenger account,<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/windsongfire/ first-hand passenger account]</ref> an [[engine room]] fire forced passengers into lifeboats at 3:15&nbsp;a.m.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sites.google.com/site/windsongfire|work= Windsong Cruise Ship Fire|title=The Wakeup Call I Won’tWon't Soon Forget|accessdate=18 October 2017}}</ref> where they'd hoped to stay only until the fire was under control. At 5:04&nbsp;a.m. a small explosion was heard from the front of the ship and the captain gave the order to abandon ship. All 127 passengers and 92 crew members were evacuated safely.
Passengers were transported by fast ferry to [[Raiatea]], a nearby island where they arrived at approx 8 a.m. Over the course of that day, they were flown on scheduled and charter Air Tahiti flights to Papeete.
 
[[File:Windsong fire.JPG|thumb|left|''Wind Song'' on fire]]
 
The [[French Navy]] put out the fire and towed the ship to [[Papeete]], where examination showed extensive damage to engineering spaces, although the passenger areas were mostly intact. Subsequently the Navy demanded compensation for its services, and French Polynesian government seized the ''Wind Song''. However, both [[Holland America Line]] (owner of Windstar Cruises at the time, itself a subsidiary of [[Carnival Corporation & plc]]) and [[Carnival Corporation & plc]] was unwilling to pay the costs involved, and even scrapping was uneconomical, because of the ship's small size and remoteness from [[Ship breaking|shipbreaker]]s in India, China, and elsewhere.
 
On January 22, 2003, with the agreement of Holland America and Carnival, the President of the Territorial Government of French Polynesia, [[Gaston Flosse]], ordered the [[scuttling]] of the ''Wind Song''. That night the ship was towed into the [[Sea of the Moon]] between [[Tahiti]] and [[Moorea]] and sunk in 9,843 feet of water, at latitude 17.45S, longitude 149.48W.
 
== References ==▼
{{Reflist|30em}}▼
 
==External links==
* [https://sites.google.com/site/windsongfire First-hand Passenger account of fire and evacuation, 2003]
* [http://www.sealetter.com/Nov-96/windsong.html Sea Letter review with picture, 1996]
<!--* [http://www.passengershipsociety.com/newsfile_windsong.htm Passenger Ship Society report of fire] not found 5/30/07 -->
 
▲== References ==
▲{{Reflist|30em}}
 
{{Windstar Cruises}}
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