Category:IMO 5321203

**USS Long Island**
	Long Island-class escort carrier
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Instance of	escort carrier;
Operator	United States Navy;
Manufacturer	Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company;
Yard number	184;
Country of registry	United States of America;
Vessel class	Long Island-class escort carrier (lead ship);
Service entry	1940;
Mass	7,900 t;
Draft	7.83 m;
Length	150 m;
Different from	USS Long Island ;
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	Q1258270; IMO ship number: 5321203
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Ship[edit]

Type: Type C3-S-A1 cargo ship, then escort aircraft carrier, then passenger ship, then cruise ship
Built by: Sun Shipbuilding, Chester PA
Yard No: 185
Keel laid: 1939.08.01
Launched: 1940.01.11
Completed: 1940.05.29
Length over all: 492 ft
Beam: 69.6 ft
GRT: 13523
DWT: 11975
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1940 Named Mormacmail
- Official number: 239545
- US Maritime Commission #47
- Call sign: WEQZ
- Port: New York
- Manager: Moore-McCormack Lines
1941.01 Selected for conversion to escort aircraft carrier at Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newport News, Va
1941.03.06 Officially acquired by U.S. Navy
1941.06.02 Commissioned and renamed USS Long Island (AVG-1)
1942.08.20 Reclassified as Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier, USS Long Island (ACV-1)
1943.07.15 Reclassified as Escort Carrier, USS Long Island (CVE-1)
1946.03.26 Decommissioned
1946.04.12 Stricken from Navy list
1947.04.24 Sold to Zidell Ship Dismantling Co., Portland, Oregon, for scrapping
1948.03.12 Renamed Nelly; Flag: Panama
- Converted to passenger ship at Albina Engineering & Machine Works, Portland, OR
- Owner: Caribbean Land & Shipping Co (Canada-Europe Line)
- 1949.02 Went to La Spezia for further conversion
- 1949.06 Entered service
1953 Renamed Seven Seas; Flag: Panama
- Converted to cruise ship
- Owner: University of the Seven Seas
1953 Chartered seasonally to Europe-Canada Line
1955 Sold to Europe-Canada Line; Flag: West Germany
1965.07.17 Fire in engine room, towed to St. John's, Newfoundland
1966 Flag: Netherlands
- Port: Rotterdam
- Owner: Student Lodging Company, Rotterdam
- used in Rotterdam as floating hostel
1971 Sold to Verolme, Rotterdam, used as overseas worker hostel in Rotterdam
1977.05.05 Arrived in Ghent, Belgium for breaking at van Heyghen Freres

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