CS ''Salamis Glory'' (formerly ''Anna Nery'', ''Danaos'', ''Constellation'', ''Morning Star'', ''Regency Spirit'') was a

cruise ship Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports-of-call, where passengers may go on tours known as "s ...

registered in

Limassol Limassol (; el, Λεμεσός, Lemesós ; tr, Limasol or ) is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the district with the same name. Limassol is the second largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population ...

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

. She cruised the Eastern Mediterranean Sea visiting countries such as

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

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and

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out of Limassol. Entering service in 1962 for a Brazilian shipping company as ''Anna Nery'', the cruise ship was involved in two collisions off

Haifa Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...

, Israel during its career, one in 1963, 25 km off of

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with a tanker, and again in 2007. The vessel was sold for

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in 2009 and broken up.

Description

As built, the ship measured

long overall __NOTOC__ Length overall (LOA, o/a, o.a. or oa) is the maximum length of a vessel's hull measured parallel to the waterline. This length is important while docking the ship. It is the most commonly used way of expressing the size of a ship, and ...

and between perpendiculars with a

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of . The cruise ship was powered by two

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s and had a maximum speed of . The ship had a tonnage of and . The ship had capacity for 420 passengers in first and second class. The ship was refitted in 2000 and had 222 cabins and eight passenger decks. The ship had a capacity of 600 passengers. The dimensions of the ship were long overall, wide and a

gross tonnage Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage. Neither gross tonnage nor gross register tonnage should be confused with measures of mass or weigh ...

of 10,392 tons. The vessel had a cruising speed of .

History

This ship was built in 1961 by

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at their yard in

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Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

with the

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237. Constructed for Companhia de Navegação Costeira, and originally called ''Anna Nery'', the vessel was launched on 5 November 1961 and completed in September 1962. The vessel was registered in

, Brazil and delivered to Santos in October. Not long after entering service, the ship suffered a boiler explosion. ''Anna Nery'' was further damaged in a collision with the tanker ''Presidente Deodoro'' in October 1963 off

, Israel. ''Anna Nery'' was out of service for nearly a year following the collision. Between 1965 and 1968 the ship was used on the route between Rio de Janeiro and Santos. After that ''Anna Nery'' was used on coastal services, transatlantic services and as a cruise ship during the summer months. In 1967, ownership of the vessel was transferred to Lloyd Brasileiro. Decline in the passenger liner business caused ''Anna Nery'' to be taken out of service in 1978 until its sale to Kavolines Corp SA and was operated by the Greek Mediterranean cruise company Hellenic Cruises beginning that year. The vessel was re-registered to

Piraeus Piraeus ( ; el, Πειραιάς ; grc, Πειραιεύς ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens' city centre, along the east coast of the Saronic ...

, Greece and during refits and modifications, ''Anna Nery'' was briefly renamed ''Danaos'' (1978) and then ''Constellation'' (1978). In 1983, the ship was sailing between Piraeus and

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, South Africa. Refit extensively, the ship later sailed between

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and Mexico and St. Petersburg and Alaska. In 1987 the cruise company operating the ship went bankrupt and ''Constellation'' went out of service for four years. The ship was taken over by the Hellenic Industrial Development Bank SA in 1988. In 1992, the ship was again purchased by another Greek owner and again renamed, this time to ''Morning Star''. It was put into cruise service in the Pacific. It was eventually renamed ''Regency Spirit'', registered in

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and passed to the American company Regency Cruises where it served on the Mexican coast during the winter and the Mediterranean during the summer. In 1995, Regency Cruises filed for bankruptcy protection, and ''Regency Spirit'' was seized in

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

. The ship was auctioned off to the Cypriot Salamis Cruises in 1996, and renamed ''Salamis Glory''. On 30 August 2007, ''Salamis Glory'' was involved in a collision with the small cargo ship near the Israeli port of Haifa. As a result of the accident, the cargo ship sunk immediately and two crewmen died. On 7 December 2009 it became known that ''Salamis Glory'' was sold on 24 November for 530,000

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and headed to

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, for scrapping. The vessel's name was shorted to ''Glory'' for the trip and arrived at Alang on 22 December 2009. The ship was scrapped in Alang in 2010.

Citations

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External links

Salamis tours ship page
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