SS Stevens
SS Stevens at Stevens Institute of Technology, Eighth Street Pier, Hoboken, NJ ca. 1970.
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| History | |
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| Builder: | Bethlehem Steel, Sparrow Point Shipyard, Sparrow Point, MD |
| Laid down: | 22 December 1943 (as cargo ship) |
| Launched: | 10 June 1944 (as USS Dauphin (APA-97)) |
| Sponsored by: | Mary B. Cooke (as USS Dauphin (APA-97)) |
| Christened: | USS Dauphin (APA-97) |
| Renamed: | SS Exochorda (1948), SS Stevens (1967) |
| Honors and awards: |
One Battle star, Navy Occupation Service Medal (as USS Dauphin) |
| Name: | SS Stevens |
| Namesake: | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Owner: | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Cost: | $130,301 (as SS Stevens) |
| Launched: | November 12, 1967 |
| Acquired: | October 1967 (as SS Stevens) |
| In service: | January 1968 (as SS Stevens) |
| Out of service: | May 1975 (as SS Stevens) |
| Nickname(s): | "the Ship" (as SS Stevens) |
| Fate: | Sold for scrap 1975. Scrapped in Chester, PA, Kearny, NJ, Raritan Bay port, 1979 |
| Badge: | ∫ (Integral symbol) |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Hull type C3-S-A3 |
| Displacement: | 14,893 tons |
| Length: | 473 ft, 1 in |
| Beam: | 66 ft, 2 in |
| Draft: | 25 ft |
| Propulsion: | Disabled (geared turbine engines, single screw, 8,000 hp) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
6 lifeboats including 1 motorized |
| Capacity: | 150 student residents |
| Notes: | Maritime Commission hull no. 4419 while under construction, later MC hull no. 1675 |
Coordinates: 40°44′40″N 74°1′22″W / 40.74444°N 74.02278°W
SS Stevens, a 473-foot (144 m), 14,893-ton ship, served as a floating dormitory from 1968 to 1975 for about 150 students of Stevens Institute of Technology, a technological university, in Hoboken, NJ. Permanently moored on the scenic Hudson River at the foot of the campus across from New York City, this first collegiate floating dormitory became one of the best known college landmarks in the country.
Twenty-four years prior to her duty as a floating dormitory, the ship served with distinction in World War II as USS Dauphin (APA-97), a Windsor-class attack transport vessel. Originally launched in 1944, Dauphin was awarded one battle star and was present in Tokyo Bay for the Surrender Ceremony of World War II, September 2, 1945.
Following the war, the vessel underwent significant modifications, and emerged as cruise liner SS Exochorda — a member of the post-war quartet of ships named "4 Aces", operated by American Export Lines. During her eleven years of cruise liner service, from 1948 to 1959, Exochorda — along with her nearly identical sister ships in the "4 Aces" — regularly sailed with passengers and cargo on a 12,000-mile (19,000 km) route from New York Harbor to various Mediterranean ports. Exochorda was retired to the Reserve ("mothball") Fleet in 1959 where she remained for eight years.
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