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Love Boat makes its final run to Turkish scrap heap
quote:The MS Pacific, a cruise ship made famous by its appearance in the popular US 1970s television show The Love Boat, has sailed its final voyage to a ship-breaking yard on Turkey's Aegean Sea coast, a shipping group said today.Called the Pacific Princess when it was on the long-running comedy, the iconic 13,500-tonne, 171-metre-long vessel will be stripped for its metal and parts, said Ersin Ceviker of the Ship Recyclers' Association of Turkey.Aaron Spelling's The Love Boat, starring Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain, ran on the US television network ABC from 1977 to 1986.The show was set on board the Pacific Princess, which mainly sailed from California to the Mexican Riveria.Each week passengers and crew members, caught under the Pacific Princess' romantic spell, engaged in love affairs or humorous encounters during the one-hour show."This ship has undergone several modifications over its lifespan. It had been decommissioned for five years, and renovation now would have been too costly," Ceviker said.Turkey's Izmir Ship Recycling Company acquired the 42-year-old Pacific for 2.5 million euros (NZD$4.1 million).AdvertisementThe vintage cruiseliner arrived from Genoa, Italy, at the breakers in the seaside town of Aliaga in Turkey late on Tuesday after a difficult trip in a violent storm, Ceviker said.The Pacific began taking on water and required the help of additional tugboats to make it to Aliaga. It was now listing on its starboard side at Aliaga.
Called the Pacific Princess when it was on the long-running comedy, the iconic 13,500-tonne, 171-metre-long vessel will be stripped for its metal and parts, said Ersin Ceviker of the Ship Recyclers' Association of Turkey.
Aaron Spelling's The Love Boat, starring Gavin MacLeod as the ship's captain, ran on the US television network ABC from 1977 to 1986.
The show was set on board the Pacific Princess, which mainly sailed from California to the Mexican Riveria.
Each week passengers and crew members, caught under the Pacific Princess' romantic spell, engaged in love affairs or humorous encounters during the one-hour show.
"This ship has undergone several modifications over its lifespan. It had been decommissioned for five years, and renovation now would have been too costly," Ceviker said.
Turkey's Izmir Ship Recycling Company acquired the 42-year-old Pacific for 2.5 million euros (NZD$4.1 million).
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The vintage cruiseliner arrived from Genoa, Italy, at the breakers in the seaside town of Aliaga in Turkey late on Tuesday after a difficult trip in a violent storm, Ceviker said.
The Pacific began taking on water and required the help of additional tugboats to make it to Aliaga. It was now listing on its starboard side at Aliaga.
She was pretty rundown, when I sailed her in 2002.
http://maritimematters.com/2012/06/visit-to-the-former-pacific-princess/
If memory serves it was the same day that we toured Stella Solaris and the Cunard sisters.
Travel agents were touring the ships that day - it was the holiday season - The captain on Stella Solaris treated us to copious amounts of ouzo after a day of wine and cocktails on the other ships.
Evidently as Stella Solaris was sailing from the pier the group I was with stood there and serenaded the ship with Christmas Carols. That was a really good day...
[ 08-09-2013: Message edited by: jeremya ]
I wonder if Discovery got spare parts when she was in Italy this winter? The sister ships were in the same ship yard for a long time.
LOVE BOATS, LINERS OR CRUISESHIPS
http://www.travelserver.net/travelpage/ubb-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=3&t=003433&p=1
PACIFIC PRINCESS REVIEW TO BERMUDA 2002
http://www.travelserver.net/travelpage/ubb-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=003778
STRETCHING THE LOVE BOATS
http://www.travelserver.net/travelpage/ubb-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=11&t=000553
quote:Originally posted by Ernst:Beaching of Pacific Princess at YouTube
A great clip. As ACIF she obviously didn't want to make it there. At 2:30 she hits Rochdale One.
Pam
[ 08-12-2013: Message edited by: Ernst ]
Pity that she did not sink enroute to Turkey. It would have been much better than her slowly get dismantled.
BTW, I had some great times as a kid in the 1970s on those two ships. The Princess and Sitmar twins all hold happy family memories.
quote:Originally posted by lasuvidaboy:I was surprised by the media attention the former Pacific Princess received. She was featured on the NBC Nightly News the other night and I cannot think of any other passenger ship that received national attention (here in the states) when they were sold-off.BTW, I had some great times as a kid in the 1970s on those two ships. The Princess and Sitmar twins all hold happy family memories.
No other cruise ship, former or present-day, was or is a GLOBAL television and cultural icon - the Pacific Princess was and evidently, still is.
Tim
http://www.midshipcentury.com/#!December-18-2013/zoom/c1qxi/image19xc
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