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SS
Grounded off Alang
Previous names: Oceanic
Independence, Sea Luck II, Oceanic Independence,
Page Five
Photo Page
With
SS Independence seen in happier days, yet towards the end of her career
As always I am very grateful to
those that contribute to this site, be it with their stories of their voyages
long ago, or with photograph’s taken. On this page you will find some of
the sad photo’s taken of the SS Independence, an American registered ship
NCL purchased for the express use in the American market IF the US Government
would allow them an US flagged cruise line, which did eventuate. However, rather
that fulfilling their promise to
Sadly, on
Later
in 2007 she was reportedly sold to an Indian Investment Company “Global
Maritime,” and she is due to depart San Francisco’s Pier 70 on
Thursday 7 February, and we assume her destination to be Alang, although, NCL
and its subsidiaries will play its tricks and pretend otherwise as they did
with the SS Norway, which they sent first to Germany, then to Malaysia, each
time pretending she was to be used again as a passenger ship, although breakers
has already received invitations before she arrived in Malaysia, including Mr.
Rajesh Shah of Kumar Steel Alang, a long standing friend of the author who
proudly emailed me saying he was going to cost the ship, etc.
July 2008: SS Oceanic is currently laid up
in
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I hereby wish to thank Patrick Race who took a series of photos the Oceanic in October 2007 and Jonathan Haeber who took some more recently.
1- SS
Oceanic, ex
Photographed & © by Patrick Race
© 2006 - Above and below: These two photographs of the SS Independence were taken on April 23, 2006
©
2007 - All photographs of the SS Oceanic below were taken by
]
The
next photo is certainly a dramatic conclusion of
Thank
you
2 - SS
Oceanic, ex
Photographed & © by Jonathan Haeber
Jonathan’s website: www.terrastories.com/bearings
Mr.
Haeber was permitted to board the SS Oceanic and took a series of
excellent photographs, and we are grateful to him for allowing us to present
some of these to you. These photos were taken on
A Ghost like lady awaiting her passengers
An
eerie evening feel, yet she remains a graceful lady
The
lifeboat covers have totally deteriorated, obviously, NCL
did not maintain the ship!
Her
long and wide promenade decks deserve many more passengers, for when the
company stopped operation
The
A
magnificent Main Lounge left in a mess – A sad sight
How
is that for a lonely
Thank you
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Index
Page One: History of SS Independence and her sister the SS Constitution
Page Two: Photo Page – From beginning to End
Page Three: Deck Plans - American Export Lines
Page Four: Deck
Plan – American
Page
Five: Photo Page
of
Photographs by Patrick Race & Jonathan Haeber
Page Six: The amazing story of SS Independence’s transformation to become the
Fugasi - “Go-Go
Cruises” FunShip. A
story by the designer
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