SS Exochorda
- This article describes a post-war "new 4 Aces" ship. A pre-war ship of the same name was a member of the original "4 Aces."
SS Exochorda of the New "4 Aces," circa 1950 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| United States | |
| Name | SS Exochorda |
| Namesake | SS Exochorda of the pre-war "4 Aces" |
| Builder | Bethlehem Steel, Sparrow Point Shipyard, Sparrow Point, MD |
| Laid down | 2 December 1943 (as cargo ship) |
| Launched | 10 June 1944 (as USS Dauphin (APA-97)) |
| Sponsored by | Mary B. Cooke (as USS Dauphin) |
| Christened | USS Dauphin (APA-97) |
| Acquired | 1947 (as Exochorda) |
| In service | November 1948 (as Exochorda) |
| Out of service | 1959 |
| Renamed | Exochorda (1948), SS Stevens (1967) |
| Honors & awards | One Battle star, Navy Occupation Service Medal (as Dauphin) |
| Fate | Sold for scrap 1975 (as Stevens). Scrapped in Chester, PA, Kearny, NJ, Raritan Bay port, 1979 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Hull type C3-S-A3 |
| Tonnage | 9,644 dead weight tons; 7,300 cargo tons |
| Displacement | 14,893 tons |
| Length | 473 ft, 1 in |
| Beam | 66 ft, 2 in |
| Draft | 25 ft |
| Propulsion | Geared turbine engines, single screw, 8,000 hp |
| Capacity | 125 Passengers, 131 crew, 392,000 ft3 cargo |
| Notes | Maritime Commission hull no. 4419 while under construction, later MC hull no. 1675 |
SS Exochorda was a 473-foot, 14,500-ton cargo liner in service with American Export Lines from 1948 to 1959[a]. A member of the line's post-war quartet of ships, "4 Aces", Exochorda sailed regularly from New York on a Mediterranean route. Originally built in 1944 as the military attack transport USS Dauphin (APA-97), the ship was extensively refurbished prior to her service as a passenger-cargo liner. Following her service as a cruise liner, the vessel served as the floating dormitory ship SS Stevens for the students of Stevens Institute of Technology, a technological university, in Hoboken, NJ. At the end of her service life she was scrapped, in 1979.