Abandoned Old Cruise Ships

The jewel in the crown of Britains venerable Cunard Line the ocean liner QE2 sailed the seven seas as both a transatlantic ocean liner and as a premium cruise ship from 1969 until her retirement on November 27th 2008.

Abandoned old cruise ships. And its all because. The ship first began service in 1986 for Carnival Cruise Line. Aliağas ship-breakers are also in the process of breaking down the worlds first mega cruise ship the Sovereign of the Seas which was formerly owned by Royal Caribbean.

This 100 year old ghost ship sit wedged in a muddy creek just outside of the Ohio river. A ghost ship filled with cannibal rats is floating somewhere off the coast of Scotland ready to crash ashore and unleash its disease-ridden cargo of starving rodents. A ship graveyard on the east coast of Turkey is where unwanted ships including massive luxury cruise liners are sent to be broken down for scrap metal.

The ship was built in 1902 to serve as a luxury yacht for a wealthy railroad executive. CMV Magellan cruise ship also heading to the scrap yard in Alang India. R8 sailed for less than 9 months before Renaissance Cruises ceased operations following the 911 attacks.

Old cruise ships for sale. CMV Magellan built in. The largest cruise ship scrap yard is in Alang India and it recycles more than 50 percent of the worlds abandoned and decommissioned cruise ships.

The ship hit bottom so to speak in 2007 when the City of Alameda California officially declared it abandoned. In 1998 the vessel elongated from 190 meters to almost 230. The Duke of Lancaster started its life as a passenger.

Two years later in 2009 the then-Faithful was featured on an episode of Life After People. 4 Doomed Field Trip 68-year-old Lee Joon-seok the captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized stood trial for gross negligence which claimed the lives of nearly 300 school children. And during the COVID-19.