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The Emerald is seen here as the stunning looking Louis Cruise Line cruise ship featuring the Louis livery with their “L” on the funnel This delightfully modern cruise ship that was a famous yet ex classic liner, the Emerald remained but operating mostly for Louis Cruises themselves in service until 2010 when she was finally laid up and placed on the market. Thereafter who knows, but with her excellent well maintained facilities, she would make a perfect floating hotel and for an enterprising company even an updated cruise ship as she is SOLAS 2010 compliant. The Emerald is seen at lay up in Eleusis Bay, but as can be seen, she remains perfectly maintained! She is currently for sale and she is worth considering! Contact me at: [e-mail]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_The_Emerald


As of 2007 she is the only passenger liner built at a U.S. shipyard (passenger liners having not been built there since 1958) that is still in service.[1]

SS The Emerald
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SS The Emerald.jpg
The Emerald in 2008
Career
Name: SS The Emerald
Owner: Louis Cruise Lines
Operator: Thomson Holidays
Port of registry: Cyprus
Builder: Litton-Ingrall, Gulfport, Mississippi
Cost: US $25 million
Launched: 1958
In service: 1958, as Santa Rosa
1992, as Regent Rainbow
1995, as Emerald
1997, as The Emerald
2010, as Emerald
Status: Retired and laid up in November 2009
General characteristics
Type: Ocean liner
Tonnage: 26,431 gross register tons (GRT)
Length: 182.57 m (599 ft 0 in)
Beam: 25.6 m (84 ft 0 in)
Speed: 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Capacity: 1,198 passengers
Crew: 412 officers and crew

SS The Emerald is a cruise ship owned by the Cyprus-based shipping company Louis Cruise Lines. She was built in 1958 by the Northrop Grumman Shipyard in Gulfport, Mississipi, USA for Grace Lines as SS Santa Rosa. Between 1992 and 1995, she sailed for Regency Cruises as SS Regent Rainbow and between 1997 and 2008, she sailed for Thomson Cruises under its present name. As of 2007 she is the only passenger liner built at a U.S. shipyard (passenger liners having not been built there since 1958) that is still in service.[1]
Contents
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1 History
1.1 Santa Rosa and time laid up
1.2 Modernisation
1.3 Regent Rainbow
1.4 The Emerald
2 The Future
3 Decks
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History
[edit] Santa Rosa and time laid up

The ship was originally launched in 1958 as Santa Rosa, displacing 20,000 gross registered tons. She sailed under this name alongside her sister the SS Santa Paula for 13 years before she was laid up in 1971.[2] She was sold to Vintoro Corp of New York in 1976 and was renamed Samos Sky, to operate South American service once again, but this venture did not eventuate and the ship remained idle. In 1989, she was sold to Coral Cruise Lines and towed to Greece that December.
[edit] Modernisation

In March 1990, the Samos Sky arrived in Chalkis, Greece to be modernised and Coral Cruises renamed her Pacific Sun, then Diamond Island before selling her to the also Greek Lelakis Group later that year, who substantially rebuilt her at the cost of $70 million. She emerged in 1991, with a brand new superstructure above her unaltered hull, and was barely recognisable, although unusually she kept her steam turbine engines.
[edit] Regent Rainbow

Now measuring 26,431 gross tonnes, the ship entered service under Regency Cruises as the popular Regent Rainbow from 1992, until Regency Cruises suffered extensive losses and was declared bankrupt in 1995. The Regent Rainbow was placed under arrest on 27 November of that year and, in December 1996, was sold to the Cyprus-based Louis Cruise Lines and renamed Emerald.
[edit] The Emerald

In 1997, the Emerald was chartered to Thomson Cruises (where The was added before her name) to operate cruises for the British market. She soon became the company's most popular ship,[3] and stayed with them until November 2008, when she was dropped in favor of a larger, more modern vessel. She was in danger of being withdrawn from service due to new SOLAS regulations coming into effect that would no longer allow her to be operated. She had been renamed Emerald according to the Louis Cruises website. [1] Louis Cruise Lines has said that Emerald is currently laid up and most likely will not sail again.[4] The Emerald was retired and laid up in September 2009.[citation needed]
[edit] The Future

Minor interest has been shown in mooring the ship as a hotel in California for a period of time, after which she could be rebuilt into her original form as Santa Rosa.[5] Louis is looking for owners who will operate The Emerald for further use (as she has been upgraded to meet SOLAS 2010 standards) while she is laid up at Eleusis alongside the MS Sapphire. As of 2011, both ships are being inspected by scrappers.[6]
[edit] Decks

The Emerald has ten decks, all ten of which are accessible to passengers.

Gym, hospital, Kidzone, massage room, sauna, engine room, crew spaces
Outside and inside cabins, engine room, crew spaces
Outside and inside cabins, crew spaces
Outside and inside cabins, beauty salon
Outside and inside cabins, reception
Yacht club bar, Royale lounge, casino, shops, library, Monte Carlo court, Chanterelle dining room, Regency showlounge
Outside and inside cabins
Outside and inside cabins, Le Bistro buffet, swimming pool, lido bar
Starlight lounge, disco, whirlpools
Sun deck (exists in the forward part of the ship only)

[edit] References

^ Colton, Tim. "Passenger Liners Built in U.S. Shipyards". Maritime Business Strategies, LLC. Archived from the original on 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2007-06-17.
^ SSMaritime
^ [TUI brochures]
^ Brokeback PLATINUM
^ > Canvas Bleak
^ THE EMERALD of Eleusis

[edit] External links

Santa Rosa - Regent Rainbow - Emerald
T/S SANTA ROSA