Argentina (ship, 1958)
 The Argentina off Stockholm, 1963
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The Argentina was a passenger ship of the US Moore-McCormack , which was put into service the 1,958th The ship, which was converted for cruises in 1972 , changed owner and name several times in its more than forty years of service before it was scrapped in India in 2003 under the name New Orleans .
history
The Argentina was built under the hull number 468 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula and launched on March 12, 1958. After being taken over by Moore-McCormack on December 9, 1958, the ship was put into service on December 12 for the liner service from New York to Buenos Aires . The Argentina , along with her sister ship Brasil, was one of the last passenger ships to be built in the United States. In 1963 the ship was rebuilt at Bethlehem Steel in Baltimore and from then on it could carry up to 671 passengers.
In 1972 the Argentina was sold to Holland-America Line and renamed Veendam , before it was converted into a cruise ship in September 1972 at Lloyd Werft Bremerhaven . The tonnage of the ship increased from 14,984 to 23,872 GRT . On June 17, 1973, broke Veendam to their first cruise from Rotterdam to New York, but was already in on May 14, 1974 Hampton Roads launched .
In December 1974 Agence Maritime International chartered the ship under the name Brasil for cruises from Rio de Janeiro , before it returned to Holland-America Line as Veendam in April 1975 . From 1976 to 1978 the Veendam was chartered out again and used as Monarch Star by Monarch Cruise Lines .
The ship, registered in the Netherlands Antilles since 1981 , remained in service for Holland America until May 1984, before it was sold as Bermuda Star to the Bermuda Cruise Line (from 1989 Bermuda Star Line) based in Panama City . In 1990 the Bermuda Star went to the Commodore Cruise Line as the Enchanted Isle , which it used for cruises from Kiel to Norway from May 1993 onwards.
In 1994 the ship was transferred to St. Petersburg as the Commodore Hotel to be used there as a hotel ship . In August 1994, it returned to cruise service as the Enchanted Isle . After another six years in service, the shipping company, renamed New Commodore Cruise Line in 1995, had to file for bankruptcy in December 2000 . The Enchanted Isle was therefore retired and launched in Louisiana .
After almost three years of lay-in, the ship was sold in New Orleans in July 2003 and then sold to India for scrapping. On December 9, 2003, the New Orleans arrived in Alang , where it was dismantled in the following months.
The sister ship Brasil was also converted into a cruise ship and was last in service under the name Universe Explorer , before it was also scrapped in Alang in 2004.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- History of the ship on moore-mccormack.com (English)