Accor put the Orient Express name on the largest sailing yacht ever designed, and the Library is holding the entry open until someone confirms it has sailed.
Position
Accor signed a letter of intent with Chantiers de l’Atlantique for two vessels, the first named Corinthian and announced for June 2026, the second Olympian for 2027. Each is planned at about 220 metres with 54 suites for 110 to 120 guests, a Presidential Suite of some 1,415 square metres, two restaurants, an amphitheatre-cabaret, a speakeasy and a recording studio. Silenseas is the shipyard’s wind-assisted sail technology, not the name of a ship — a distinction most coverage does not make.
⚑ What is not confirmed
The Library has not verified a first sailing. Coverage from March 2026 described Corinthian as debuting “this June”; nothing establishes that it did. LHL-311 was admitted before §22 was written and is kept under §6.1, and this entry describes a plan rather than a ship.
Why the entry is worth holding
The rail brand is LHL-259 and the trains are Part VI, complete. Orient Express is the only name in the register attempting the same proposition on land, on rails and at sea at once, and whether it can carry all three is a genuine question the Library will be able to answer within a year.
What this model does not solve
A brand that means a train in 1883 has to argue that it also means a ship in 2026, and the argument is made entirely by the name. Accor’s own chief executive claimed the vessel would command double the rates of the Ritz-Carlton’s Evrima before either had sailed.