Ocean Dream (ship, 1972)
 As Southern Cross in Copenhagen, May 1995
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The Ocean Dream was a cruise ship that was built in Italy in 1972 under the name Spirit of London . In its more than forty years of service, the ship has been in service under different names and owners such as P&O Cruises or Princess Cruises . On February 27, 2016, the Ocean Dream , which had been decommissioned in 2012, capsized off Laem Chabang and sank in shallow water.
history
Planning and construction
The Ocean Dream should be one of two original sister ships under the name Seaward to the Norwegian Cruise Line to be delivered. However, the shipping company dropped out of the project in 1970 after the shipyard Cantieri Navali del Tirreno & Riuniti ran into financial difficulties. The unfinished ship was sold and taken over by P&O Cruises as the Spirit of London .
period of service
The ship was launched on May 9, 1972 and was put into service in October of the same year. As early as 1974, after only two years of service for P&O, the ship was sold on to Princess Cruises as Sun Princess . In 1988 she joined Premier Cruises as Starship Majestic and in 1994 she joined CTC Lines as Southern Cross , which downsized the on-board casino in favor of a new Verandah lounge, library and bar. In 1998 it was sold to Festival Cruises as Flamenco . After the bankruptcy and liquidation of the shipping company in 2004, the ship was auctioned for 12.25 million US dollars by Cruise Elysia and renamed New Flamenco . Club Cruises then used it from 2007 under the name Flamenco-1 as a residential ship in New Caledonia until the company went bankrupt in 2008. It was then launched in Singapore for almost two years until it was sold to Alang for scrapping in 2010 . In January 2012, however, it became known that the Runfeng Ocean Deluxe Cruises in Vietnam had bought and modernized the ship to use it as the Ocean Dream . However, this was not very successful, which is why it was retired that same year. In 2013 Runfeng Ocean Deluxe Cruises sold the ship to Ocean Dream Cruise Co. Ltd., which was founded especially for them. based in Togo , which she never used for cruises. Since then, the Ocean Dream was laid up in front of Laem Chabang and was for sale.
Average
On February 27, 2016, the Ocean Dream capsized off Laem Chabang and partially sank in shallow water. The ship, which had been abandoned for a year, had already been on a growing list for several days. Requests to the owner to stabilize the ship were ignored. Oil leaked from the capsized ship. The oil spill spread to 5.2 km².
In film and television
The ship has been featured in films and television series several times. In 1975 it was the setting for the Columbo crime thriller Dream Ship of Death , in 1976 in the pilot for the TV series Love Boat and in 1980 in Herbie going crazy .
Sister ship
The sister ship of the Ocean Dream was the Southward , which entered service in 1971 and was delivered to Norwegian Cruise Line as planned and after several changes of ownership arrived in early 2013 when Venus was scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey .
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Chinese cruise ship sinks off Laem Chabang port. In: Thai PBS. February 27, 2016, accessed February 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Mikhail Voytenko: Cruise ship OCEAN DREAM capsized and sank, Laem Chabang. In: FleetMon. February 27, 2016, accessed February 28, 2016 .
- ^ Paul Hancock: OCEAN DREAM. In: ShipwreckLog. February 27, 2016, accessed February 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Rough seas impede oil spill cleanup. In: Bangkok Post. February 28, 2016, accessed March 9, 2016 .
Coordinates: 12 ° 37 ′ 18.4 ″ N , 100 ° 46 ′ 15.6 ″ E