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Ship
[edit]- Type: Type C3-S-A1 cargo ship, then escort aircraft carrier, then passenger ship, then cruise ship
- Built by: Sun Shipbuilding, Chester PA
- Yard No: 185
- Keel laid: 1939.08.01
- Launched: 1940.01.11
- Completed: 1940.05.29
- Length over all: 492 ft
- Beam: 69.6 ft
- GRT: 13523
- DWT: 11975
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- shipbuildinghistory.com
- shipbuildinghistory.com
- www.navsource.org
- www.shipspotting.com
- plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk
History
[edit]- 1940 Named Mormacmail
- Official number: 239545
- US Maritime Commission #47
- Call sign: WEQZ
- Port: New York
- Manager: Moore-McCormack Lines
- 1941.01 Selected for conversion to escort aircraft carrier at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Va
- 1941.03.06 Officially acquired by U.S. Navy
- 1941.06.02 Commissioned and renamed USS Long Island (AVG-1)
- 1942.08.20 Reclassified as Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier, USS Long Island (ACV-1)
- 1943.07.15 Reclassified as Escort Carrier, USS Long Island (CVE-1)
- 1946.03.26 Decommissioned
- 1946.04.12 Stricken from Navy list
- 1947.04.24 Sold to Zidell Ship Dismantling Co., Portland, Oregon, for scrapping
- 1948.03.12 Renamed Nelly; Flag: Panama
- Converted to passenger ship at Albina Engineering & Machine Works, Portland, OR
- Owner: Caribbean Land & Shipping Co (Canada-Europe Line)
- 1949.02 Went to La Spezia for further conversion
- 1949.06 Entered service
- 1953 Renamed Seven Seas; Flag: Panama
- Converted to cruise ship
- Owner: University of the Seven Seas
- 1953 Chartered seasonally to Europe-Canada Line
- 1955 Sold to Europe-Canada Line; Flag: West Germany
- 1965.07.17 Fire in engine room, towed to St. John's, Newfoundland
- 1966 Flag: Netherlands
- Port: Rotterdam
- Owner: Student Lodging Company, Rotterdam
- used in Rotterdam as floating hostel
- 1971 Sold to Verolme, Rotterdam, used as overseas worker hostel in Rotterdam
- 1977.05.05 Arrived in Ghent, Belgium for breaking at van Heyghen Freres
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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- Seven Seas (ship, 1940) (8 F)