MS Pacific

• Pacific Princess
• Sea Venture
• Acif

IMO no. 7018563

The Pacific was a cruise ship that was built in 1971 by the Rhine steel Nordseewerken in Emden as Sea Venture for Flagship Cruises.

Between 1975 and 2002 she went for P & O Princess Cruises as Pacific Princess and gained at this time notoriety as the scene of the American television series The Love Boat.

History

The construction of the ship was given to the late 1960s, together with the sister ship of the Iceland venture company Norwegian Cruise Ships in the North Sea works in order. Norwegian Cruise Ships ever belonged to half the Norwegian Shipowners Øivind Lorentzen, and Oslo's shipping company Fearnley & Eger. Already during the construction of the first ship, there was such a massive miscalculation that a prefabricated would have led to the agreed conditions for closure of the yard. After the fall of 1969, more than one manager of the shipyard were dismissed because of the high losses of millions, it took the new Board, chaired Rainer Wollmann in subsequent negotiations to impose higher prices, after which the ships could be built.

The launching of the ship took place on the North Sea Shipyard in Emden works on 9 May 1970. In May 1971, the completed vessel was handed over to Flagship Cruises and used under the name of Sea Venture at cruises between the U.S. and Bermuda. The ship's name goes back to the English sailing ship Sea Venture, which ran aground off Bermuda and its survivors populated the island.

In April 1975, the ship was sold along with her ​​sister ship Iceland venture to P & O Princess Cruises. The couple was renamed Pacific Princess Princess and Iceland. The Pacific Princess was in 2001 by Abbey National Leasing 1 (" Princess Cruises " ) sold but still zurückgechartert by the end of 2002. End of 2002, the ship went to the Spanish Cruise Lines Pullmantur and renamed Pacific. From 9 to 16 June 2003, the ship was once more Pacific Princess. On 20 October 2008, the Pacific Quail Cruises Ship Management was acquired and transferred to the Company Templeton International Inc. for the month. The ship was operated until 2012 by Quail Cruises Ship Management.

2011, the Pacific should be subjected in Genoa an asbestos removal. After the owner of the ship not came up for the cost, the ship in February 2012 was foreclosed and thereby acquired by a Turkish terminators for 2.5 million euros, wants the former " Love Boat" scrapped. End of July 2013, the ship was towed to Aliağa, where it arrived on August 6 for scrapping. They clashed with the remnants of the former cruise ship Rochdale One, which apparently was a leak in the hull and penetrated water. Shortly thereafter, two workers died in the engine room by escaping gases. Another eight people escaped with light poisoning to the hospital. Subsequently, the work had to be stopped because of the heavy flooding. In the meantime the ship had more than 40 degree list and threatened to capsize. However, they could not be erected, as the wreck of the Rochdale One was in the way. After the scrapping of the Rochdale One she was pulled in late October from the beach and stranded at a different location in order to stabilize and start scrapping. However, this failed because the ship after a short time got flip side. In early November was finally begun with the demolition of the now stabilized the ship.

Pacific Princess as " Love Boat"

The Pacific Princess was the ship that was primarily used as the setting for the 1977 broadcast in the U.S. ABC series The Love Boat. The Pacific Princess was shown in almost every episode of the series, which was primarily produced in a studio. The term Love Boat was heavily emphasized in the advertising of Princess Cruises and although the sister ship of Iceland Princess and other cruise ships were shown in the series, he eventually became synonymous with the Pacific Princess.