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Remember the 1970s TV series “The Love Boat”? The ship upon which the series was based was, actually, a cruise ship. It’s been in service until now, but she’s been sold and will be scrapped for metal and parts in Turkey.

During the show’s era, the ship was really known as “Pacific Princess”.

Some factoids from the article:

• 13,500-tonne
• 171-m-long (561-foot-long)
• 42 years-old
• sold for 2.5 million euros ($3.3 million)

And factoids from Wikipedia:

Pacific was 168.8 m (554 ft), with a 24.7 m (81 ft) beam, and was built at Nordseewerke, West Germany. She was propelled by four medium speed Fiat Diesel engines with a combined power output of 18,000 shaft horsepower. The engines were individually clutched and geared in pairs to each of the two shafts that drive controllable pitch propellers. This enabled one or more engines to be shut down and declutched as required. As Pacific Princess, her tonnage was 20,636 GRT and she carried 646 passengers at a top speed of 21.5 knots, cruising at 20 knots. As Pacific, her capacity was increased to 780 passengers and cruising speed reduced to 18 knots. Country of registry was the Bahamas.

For more on this story, see the original article at the Orlando Sentinel.

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