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Royal Caribbean International, Wet Chips
Type: Cruise Ship
Status: Closed
Open: 1991, Close: 2002
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Recently operated as the Viking Serenade for Royal Caribbean, was the only ship in the Royal Caribbean fleet that was not originally designed and built for the line. She was originally the SCANDINAVIA, built in 1981 for DFDS Lines for deployment on an unsuccessful cruise ferry service from New York to the Bahamas, where passengers and vehicles were transferred to other ship for their intended destinations, North or South Florida. She had accommodation for 1606 passengers and 530 cars....all of them looked after by a crew of 350. In 1984, following the demise of this coastal experiment, she was sent to Denmark for overnight service between Copenhagen and Oslo. That November, she was sold to Sundance Cruise Corporation for spring, 1985 delivery to California. First came an interesting refit by Blohm and Voss yards and she emerged as the STARDANCER, a replacement for the Sundance Cruises stricken pioneer ship, SUNDANCER. She was known as a deluxe alternative to the the Alaska State Ferry System.....she carried c |
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