{"id":22935,"date":"2020-08-06T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T08:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=22935"},"modified":"2024-07-02T11:10:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T09:10:19","slug":"sun-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=22935","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/td>LOI<\/td><\/tr>
1959<\/td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr>
10\/11\/1962<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
24\/1\/1964<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
2\/1964<\/td>Delivered to Zim Israel Navigation Co, Haifa, Israel.<\/td><\/tr>
1964<\/td>Short cruises from from Haifa.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/4\/1964<\/td>Maiden voyage from Haifa to New York.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/1964<\/td>Rebuild to more suitable for cruising by Wilton-Feyenoord,
Rotterdam, Holland<\/td><\/tr>
26\/11\/1964<\/td>Collision with Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali. Tanker sunk killing 19 of her crew.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/1964<\/td>Repaired by Newport News , Norfolk , Virginia<\/td><\/tr>
9\/11\/1967<\/td>Sold to Deutsche Atlantik Linie, Hamburg, W.Germany
New name Hanseatic<\/td><\/tr>
16\/12\/1967<\/td>First voyage from Hamburg to New York.<\/td><\/tr>
1968<\/td>Cruising winters in America and summers in Europe.<\/td><\/tr>
25\/9\/1973<\/td>Sold to Home Lines, Panama. New name Doric.<\/td><\/tr>
1973<\/td>Rebuild <\/td><\/tr>
1973<\/td>Cruises winter from Port Everglades and summer
from New York to Bermuda.<\/td><\/tr>
1981<\/td>Sold to Royal Cruise Line, Piraeus, Greece.
New name Royal Odyssey.<\/td><\/tr>
25\/5\/1982<\/td>Cruises around the World.<\/td><\/tr>
4\/11\/1988<\/td>Sold to Regency Cruises, Nassau, Bahamas.
New name Regent Sun.<\/td><\/tr>
9\/12\/1988<\/td>Cruises in Caribbean<\/td><\/tr>
3\/11\/1995<\/td>Arrested in Nassau, Bahamas.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/1996<\/td>Laid up for sale.<\/td><\/tr>
1998<\/td>Sold to Tony Travel & Agency, Nassau, Bahamas.
New name Sun<\/td><\/tr>
1998<\/td>Sold to International Shipping Partners.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Continue laid up at Bahamas.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Plans to rebuild to hotel ship <\/td><\/tr>
6\/2001<\/td>Sold to scrap. Towed to India<\/td><\/tr>
25\/7\/2001<\/td>Start to take water near South Africa<\/td><\/tr>
26\/7\/2001<\/td>Sunk near Cape St. Francis.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to Ship                                     History LOI 1959 Building contract Building started Keel laid 10\/11\/1962 Launch Sea trial 24\/1\/1964 Second sea trial 2\/1964 Delivered to Zim Israel Navigation Co, Haifa, Israel. 1964 Short cruises from from Haifa. 17\/4\/1964 Maiden voyage … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":22915,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22935","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22935"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37949,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22935\/revisions\/37949"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}