In the late 1980s, Paraguas (Spanish for "umbrella") purchased a trio of identical cruise ships: Queen Dido; Queen Semiramis and Queen Zenobia. After being redesigned and rebuilt with state-of-the-art laboratories, the three ships were sent across the world in the early 1990s to assist Umbrella in its B.O.W. research. The Queen Zenobia is known to have travelled to and from Africa and may have been used to transport Progenitor Virus samples from the Umbrella Africa Laboratory. In 2002, the ex-Umbrella researcher Morpheus D. Duvall hijacked a fourth cruise ship, the Spencer Rain, redirecting it to the Umbrella Waste Disposal Facility where it was destroyed upon collision with a cliff.