She is a real beeeeauty :o)

AQUARAMA's problem was that she was placed in the wrong service, between Detroit & Cleveland. The trip did not shorten the driving distance, since it was a nearly parallel route, and it actually took longer, once you boarded yourself and your car, sailed there, and waited to get your car back. When I was a child in 1962 we made the trip and I remember how upset my Dad was about how long the trip took, compared to just driving the same route. But that trip planted the seeds of my love of passenger ships!

Think I'm into the odd looking ones. Always liked this one though I've never seen her with my own eyes (she'd been laid-up before I was born and I only came across photos of her about ten years ago). According to what I've read on the internet she's never been a fortunate one...

Thanks everyone for the commets, I must admit she is no where as beautiful as say, SOUTH AMERICAN (553506),but she was one of a kind,I also somewhere have some movie film taken in the Detroit River in 1962, I'll see if I can find it-Fred

While not a beauty, this classic era vessel was far more shipshape than many of todays megabrutes, I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder! mrdot.

Hard to believe this started out as a C-4 cargo ship!

Ugly indeed but I'm glad I got to see her.

Regards

Bob

No more ugly than Nieuw Amsterdam, Queen Elizabeth, Independence of the Seas, Celebrity Solstice and on and on....

Still pig-ugly!

She does at least have curves, lots of them, as opposed to being little more than a box.

"Beauty is in the eye . . . . etc" but to me this is a reminder that ugly ships are by no means a phenomenon of the modern age.

Stating the obvious I know, but it was sad indeed that this remarkable vessel could not have been restored to active service. Her utterly unique appearance ought to have been enough to ensure her a special niche in the market.