MV Azores is a Portuguese cruise ship operated by Portuscale Cruises.Until 2012, the ship was operated by Classic International Cruises, as the Athena. In 2013, she was transferred to Portuscale Cruises and renamed Azores. She will again be renamed, to Astoria, at the end of the 2015 summer season. She was ordered in 1944, and launched 9 September 1946, as the Stockholm by Götaverken in Gothenburg for the Swedish America Line (SAL).