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The first and only newbuild for the line. She was converted into a cruise ship during the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was later known as the
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The line continued to operate transatlantic and other short-to-long-distance voyages, but later began operating leisure cruises as the
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Destroyed by fire during a voyage in December 1963. The fire was responsible for the loss of 128 people. The ship sank soon after.
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The company ran into financial difficulties in the early 1970s. Bankruptcy followed in 1975 and the last two ships,
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None of the Greek Line's former ships are still in operation. The last surviving ship, the
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The Greek Line was founded in 1939 with the acquisition of the former
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First ship to operate for the Greek Line. She was scrapped in 1961.
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replaced passenger ships as the means of transportation across the
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It operated transatlantic voyages until Greece entered
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Nea Hellas
Piraeus
Greece
Transatlantic crossings
Parent
SS Tuscania
World War II
troopship
Allies
Jet Age
Atlantic Ocean
SS Olympia
TSMS Lakonia
SS Olympia
SS Queen Anna Maria
Carnival Cruise Lines
Gross tonnage
Nea Hellas

GT
Katoomba

GT
Olympia

GT
Arkadia

GT

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