 Cruise shipSalamis Glory | |
| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Port of registry |
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| Builder | Uljanik,Pula |
| Launched | 5 November 1961 |
| Completed | September 1962 |
| In service | 1962 |
| Out of service | 2009 |
| Identification | IMO number: 5018698 |
| Fate | Broken up 2009 |
| General characteristics as built | |
| Type | Cruise ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | |
| Beam | 20.0 m (65 ft 7 in) |
| Propulsion | 2diesel engines |
| Speed | 17.5knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph) |
CSSalamis Glory (formerlyAnna Nery,Danaos,Constellation,Morning Star,Regent Spirit) was acruise ship registered inLimassol,Cyprus. She cruised the Eastern Mediterranean Sea visiting countries such asSyria,Lebanon,Israel,Greece andEgypt out of Limassol. Entering service in 1962 for a Brazilian shipping company asAnna Nery, the cruise ship was involved in two collisions offHaifa, Israel during its career, one in 1963, 25 km off ofRio de Janeiro with a tanker, and again in 2007. The vessel was sold forscrap in 2009 and broken up.
As built, the ship measured 150.0 m (492 ft 2 in)long overall and 135.0 m (442 ft 11 in)between perpendiculars with abeam of 20.0 m (65 ft 7 in). The cruise ship was powered by twodiesel engines and had a maximum speed of 17.5knots (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph). The ship had a tonnage of 10,444 gross register tons (GRT) and 3,430 tonsdeadweight (DWT).[1] The ship had capacity for 420 passengers in first and second class.[2]
The ship was refitted in 2000 and had 222 cabins and eight passenger decks. The ship had a capacity of 600 passengers. The dimensions of the ship were 150.9 metres (495 ft 0 in) long overall, 18.0 metres (59 ft 0 in) wide and agross tonnage of 10,392 tons. The vessel had a cruising speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph).[3]
This ship was built in 1961 byUljanik at their yard inPula,Yugoslavia with theyard number 237. Constructed for Companhia de Navegação Costeira, and originally calledAnna Nery, the vessel waslaunched on 5 November 1961 and completed in September 1962.[1] The vessel wasregistered inRio de Janeiro, Brazil and delivered toSantos in October.[1][4] Not long after entering service, the ship suffered a boiler explosion.Anna Nery was further damaged in a collision with thetankerPresidente Deodoro in October 1963 offHaifa, Israel.[4]Anna Nery was out of service for nearly a year following the collision.[5] Between 1965 and 1968 the ship was used on the route between Rio de Janeiro and Santos. After thatAnna Nery was used on coastal services, transatlantic services and as a cruise ship during the summer months.[4] In 1967, ownership of the vessel was transferred toLloyd Brasileiro.[1]
Decline in the passenger liner business causedAnna Nery to be taken out of service in 1978 until its sale to Kavolines Corp SA and was operated by the Greek Mediterranean cruise company Hellenic Cruises beginning that year. The vessel was re-registered toPiraeus, Greece and during refits and modifications,Anna Nery was briefly renamedDanaos (1978) and thenConstellation (1978).[1] In 1983, the ship was sailing between Piraeus andDurban, South Africa.[6] Refit extensively, the ship later sailed betweenSt. Petersburg, Florida and Mexico and St. Petersburg and Alaska.[2] In 1987 the cruise company operating the ship went bankrupt andConstellation went out of service for four years. The ship was taken over by the Hellenic Industrial Development Bank SA in 1988.[1]
In 1992, the ship was again purchased by another Greek owner and again renamed, this time toMorning Star. It was put into cruise service in the Pacific. It was eventually renamedRegency Spirit, registered inNassau, Bahamas and passed to the American company Regency Cruises where it served on the Mexican coast during the winter and the Mediterranean during the summer. In 1995, Regency Cruises filed for bankruptcy protection, andRegency Spirit was seized inNice. The ship was auctioned off to the Cypriot Salamis Cruises in 1996, and renamedSalamis Glory.
On 30 August 2007,Salamis Glory was involved in a collision with the small cargo shipShelly near the Israeli port of Haifa. As a result of the accident, the cargo ship sunk immediately and two crewmen died.[7]
On 7 December 2009 it became known thatSalamis Glory was sold on 24 November for 530,000euros and headed toAlang, India, forscrapping. The vessel's name was shorted toGlory for the trip and arrived at Alang on 22 December 2009. The ship was scrapped in Alang in 2010.[1][8]
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