Here is a little ship quiz for you. My husband ran across this ship looking for cruises for us later in the year. What he found out about her past was amazing. See if you can recognize what she use to be. Here is what she is now....


Athena was originally built as a trans-atlantic ocean liner and in 1994 the vessel changed ownership and was virtually stripped to her hull and re-constructed at an amazing cost of $US150 million and restored as a beautiful new premium rated more contemporary cruise ship.
With a handsome profile and a traditional walk around promenade deck, Athena is a medium to small sized cruise ship by today’s standards carrying about 550 passengers and offering a wide selection of well appointed public lounges and comfortable cabin accommodation spanning eight passenger decks serviced by two lifts.

More clues will come if no one can figure it out.

yike: WOW! ... I am totally blown away!

It took me a while to figure out the original name of the ship, and when I did, I couldn't believe it was the same ship! :o

I won't give the name away, let others try to figure it out ... its fun investigating stuff like this.

A great Cussler related quiz! ;)

Good one Julie th:

The SS Minnow?

Always one in a crowd <_<

Come on all you super slueths out there, give us your best guess! det:

Tony got the answer right!! Since everyone else is having a hard time (especially Rob :lol: ) Here is your first hint....

MS Caribe (chartered to Arcalia Shipping by owners Nina Cruises, renamed ATHENA, subchartered to various operators such as Vivamare in Germany)

:P boss :P


How about the Love Boat?

The Flandre - at a guess

I give...I found the website where you can book a cruise on the Athena and another site with some reference to a Clancy book, but that's all I was able to find. Presumably it's some ship that was in a CC novel? :blink:

The above quote is Julie's first clue.

Olympia?

Ah crap, don't worry, I just found the answer! That's what I get for jumping around the posts page!

That is a phenomenal history!

Cheers

Andy

OK so what's the answer?

She was the Stockholm and is the ship that collided with the Andrea Doria.

beer:

OMG!!! What a trandformation. She's beautiful

I saw a PBS special about that collision, and in particular trying to analyze who was at fault. Was there fog or wasn't there? Did one of the captains mis-interpret his radar? It was a pretty neat special with lots of details about the crash, the fate of the vessels, and the political and social aftermath. Kudos to the Swedes for running a much more effective media campaign than the Italians (I think I have those countries right).

:o Sweet. I would find that such an awesome experience to board a ship with a history like that.
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