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Ambassador Cruise Line

Headquarters: United Kingdom
Founded: 2021
Employees: —

Official website

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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No published figure available

Container capacity

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Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

173,485

Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Ambassador Cruise Line is

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Ambassador Cruise Line is a British cruise line headquartered in Purfleet, England. The company launched and announced the purchase of its flagship Ambience in May 2021 and commenced sales to the public in the following month.
Ambassador Cruise Line tailors towards premium-value no fly cruises which target the adult market, including over 50s, with sailings for families during summer months. Ambassador Cruise Line operates from eight ports in the United Kingdom: London Tilbury, Newcastle, Dundee, Edinburgh Leith, Bristol Royal Portbury, Falmouth, Liverpool and Belfast with London Tilbury and Newcastle being the home ports of Ambience and Ambition respectively.

Origin

Who founded it

Ambassador Cruise Line was founded in 2021 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

christian verhounig

1977

People

Leadership on record

Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.

Chief executive

christian verhounig

1977

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: United Kingdom
Headquarters: —
Formed in: —
Founded: 2021
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: —

Ships on record here: 3
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 31.7 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1991
Newest vessel on record: 1999
Largest vessel by tonnage: 70,285
Average tonnage: 57,828
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Ambassador Cruise Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Fincantieri2

Chantiers de l'Atlantique1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	3
2018	—	3
2019	—	3
2020	—	3
2021	—	3
2022	—	3
2023	—	3
2024	—	3
2025	—	3
2026	—	3

Vessel records

Ships on record · Cruise ship

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Ambience	8521232	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	1991	70,285	6,896	245.1 m	Fincantieri
Renaissance	8919257	Cruise ship	Netherlands	1993	55,000	10,965	220.0 m	Fincantieri
Ambition	9172777	Cruise ship	Italy	1999	48,200	—	216.0 m	Chantiers de l'Atlantique

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Ambassador Cruise Line compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 3 vessels attributed to it here, Ambassador Cruise Line is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United Kingdom is the country of registration for 97 commercial operators in this directory, among which Ambassador Cruise Line ranks 18th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 260 vessels here. See every operator registered in United Kingdom.

Founded in 2021, Ambassador Cruise Line is 5 years old. This directory holds 43 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.