18 Facts About Princess Cruises

Princess Cruises is incorporated in Bermuda and its headquarters are in Santa Clarita, California.

Princess Cruises began in 1965, when founder Stanley McDonald chartered Canadian Pacific Limited's Alaska cruise ship Princess Patricia for Mexican Riviera cruises from Los Angeles during a time when she would have usually been laid up for the winter.

In 1969, Princess Italia was used on Alaskan cruises from San Francisco, but by 1973, the charter was canceled, and Italia returned to Europe on charter to Costa Cruise Line.

In 1981, Princess Cruises began calling at the cruise line's first private Caribbean destination, Palm Island in the Grenadines.

Princess Cruises Bay was the cruise line's second private island resort, replacing Palm Island, and was marketed as "every castaway's first choice, " primarily featured on the cruise line's Caribbean itineraries from San Juan, Puerto Rico, but is no longer a Princess Cruises private resort.

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In 1991, Princess Cruises began developing their third ever Caribbean private resort named Princess Cays located on the southern tip of the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas.

The last purpose-built Princess new build had been the Royal Princess in 1984, and the 3 recent inherited new builds had all been designed for Sitmar Cruises.

Princess Cruises unveiled its first Grand-class vessel in 1998, the Grand Princess Cruises, which debuted on May 26, and was christened by Olivia de Havilland.

In 2001, Princess Cruises headquarters moved from Century City to Santa Clarita, near the Westfield Valencia Town Center.

Star Princess Cruises commenced operations in March 2002 and became the first "mega-ship" to operate from the West Coast on a full-time basis.

Princess Cruises eventually acquired two former Renaissance ships for the line starting in 2002.

In 2017, Princess Cruises further invested in China via the delivery of their third Royal-class ship, Majestic Princess Cruises, after it was designed to accommodate the Chinese-speaking market and scheduled to homeport in Shanghai.

In July 2018, Princess Cruises signed a memorandum of agreement with Fincantieri for the construction of two new 175,000 GT ships that will be primarily powered by liquefied natural gas.

Princess Cruises will become the fifth Carnival Corporation brand to operate ships running on LNG upon the first ship's delivery in late-2023.

Princess Cruises was involved in litigation with General Electric in 1998 over consequential damages and lost profits resulting from a contract the two parties entered into.

In December 2016, Princess Cruises agreed to plead guilty to seven felony charges and pay a $40 million penalty.

Violation of the probation terms of 2016, Carnival Corporation and Princess Cruises were ordered to pay an additional $20 million penalty in 2019.

Shortly before the disease was declared a pandemic, and with over 2700 passengers on board, Ruby Princess Cruises sailed into international waters despite a global increase of confirmed cases of COVID-19.