Floating university ship “Universe” at Kobe, March 1980
Owner: Seawise Foundations Inc., Monrovia (C.Y. Tung Group)
Flag: Liberia
Builder: Sun Ship Building & Dry Dock Co. Chester, Pennsylvania (Hull-586)
Gross tons: 13,950
Deadweight: 5,182
Length overall: 171.8 m
Max. draft: 8.729 m
Engines: 2 x steam turbines, total 19,250 s.h.p., geared to single shaft, by General Electric Co., Lynn, Massachusetts
Service speed: 20 knots
University personnel: c.60 faculty & c.500 students
Completed 1953 as C4-S-1a-type general cargo ship “Badger Mariner” for the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Sold 1957 American Banner Lines; converted to a passenger ship at Ingals Ship Building Corp., Pascagoula, Mississippi, renamed “Atlantic”.
Sold 1959 to American Export Lines, extensively refitted as a warm-weather cruise ship.
Owner merged 1964 with Isbrandtsen Steamship Co., forming American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines
Bought 1971 by Tung, renamed “Universe Campus”
Renamed “Universe” 1976
Taken out of service 1995 & sold for scrapping at Alang, India, the following year.