2001–2003: United States Maritime Administration[citation needed]
2003–2005: California Manufacturing Corp
2005: Norwegian Cruise Line
2005–2009: California Manufacturing Corp[1]
Operator
1951–1969: American Export Lines
1969–1974: laid up
1974–1976: Atlantic Far East Lines
1976–1980: laid up/rebuilt
1980–1982: American Hawaii Cruises
1982–1996: American Global Line
1996–2001: American Hawaii Cruises
2001–2008: laid up[1]
Port of registry
1951–1974: New York, United States
1974–1979: Panama City, Panama
1979–2009: Honolulu, United States[1]
Ordered
1950[citation needed]
Builder
Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
Yard number
1618[1]
Laid down
1950[citation needed]
Launched
June 3, 1950[1]
Completed
1951
Acquired
January 22, 1951[1]
Maiden voyage
February 10, 1951[1]
In service
1951–1969, 1974–1976, 1980–2001
Out of service
2001
Identification
IMO number: 5160180[1]
Fate
Grounded and subsequently broken up off Alang, India; 2010-2011
Notes
One of the last US-flagged liners
General characteristics (as built)[1]
Type
Ocean liner
Tonnage
23,719 GRT
7,250 DWT
Length
208.01 m (682.45 ft)
Beam
27.18 m (89.17 ft)
Draft
9.20 m (30.18 ft)
Decks
12[citation needed]
Installed power
Two Bethlehem Steel Corporation steam turbines
40,456 kW (combined)
Speed
22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph)
Capacity
1,000 passengers
General characteristics (after 1959 refit)[1]
Type
Cruise ship
Tonnage
23,754 GRT
Capacity
395 passengers
General characteristics (after 1974 refit)[1]
Capacity
950 passengers
General characteristics (after 1980 refit)[1]
Tonnage
20,221 GRT
Capacity
1,073 passengers
SS Independence was an American built passenger liner, which entered service in February 1951 for American Export Lines. Originally, she plied a New York-Mediterranean route, specializing in a high-end clientele, sailing one way while her sister ship, SS Constitution, plied the route the opposite. Starting in 1980 she sailed as a cruise ship. She was shortly joined by her similarly graceful counter sterned sibling, the pair sharing the Hawaiian islands together for the better part of two decades until their retirements.
Between 1974 and 1982 Independence sailed as Oceanic Independence for Atlantic Far East Lines and American Hawaii Cruises, before reverting to the original name. Independence was then operated by American Global Line between 1982 and 1996, and again American Hawaii Cruises until being laid up in San Francisco in 2001.
In 2006 the ship was renamed Oceanic and, after being mothballed for seven years, left San Francisco for Singapore on February 8, 2008. That destination was later changed to Dubai, and in 2009 the aged liner left there under tow as the Platinum II for the shipbreaking yards in Alang, India. After having been turned away from those scrap yards due to hazardous materials on board, the then 58-year-old ship was grounded off Alang.[2] There, the rusting ship's hull broke in two aft of the smokestacks (making refloating impossible) and was scrapped on the spot.[3]
^ abcdefghijklMicke Asklander. "T/S Independence (1951)". Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Retrieved 2008-02-05.
^"'Toxic' US ship banned in India". BBC News. 2009-11-10. Retrieved 2010-05-23.
^Knego, Peter (June 13, 2010). "Sad EndEPENDENCE". Maritime Matters. Retrieved August 3, 2014.
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