Posted on 08/08/2013 2:53:40 AM PDT by prisoner6
The Love Boat sails on final voyage to Aliaga shipbreakers
8/8 - The MS Pacific, a cruise ship made famous by its appearance in the popular U.S. 1970s television show “The Love Boat,” has sailed its final voyage to a ship-breaking yard on Turkey’s Aegean Sea coast, a shipping group said on Wednesday.
Called the Pacific Princess when it was on the long-running comedy, the iconic 13,500 tonne, 171-m-long (561-foot-) vessel will be stripped for its metal and parts, said Ersin Ceviker of the Ship Recyclers’ Association of Turkey.
Aaron Spelling’s “The Love Boat,” starring Gavin MacLeod as the ship’s captain, ran on the U.S. television network ABC from 1977 to 1986. The show was set on board the Pacific Princess, which mainly sailed from California to the Mexican Riveria.
“This ship has undergone several modifications over its lifespan. It had been decommissioned for five years, and renovation now would have been too costly,” Ceviker said.
Turkey’s Izmir Ship Recycling Co. acquired the 42-year-old Pacific for 2.5 million euros ($3.3 million).
The vintage cruise liner arrived from Genoa, Italy, at the breakers in the seaside town of Aliaga in Turkey late on Tuesday after a difficult trip in a violent storm, Ceviker said.
The Pacific began taking on water and required the help of additional tugboats to make it to Aliaga. It was now listing on its starboard side at Aliaga. ($1 = 0.7513 euros)
Love!
Exciting new...
Oh no! The Flowerpot Munchkin lady dies, now this! My youth disappearing before my eyes!!
Miss Yah!
R.I.P. to the Love boat and those happier, freedom loving days.
It was a better world with certainty.
ditto your thoughts. spot on.
The Princess had taken on that musky, musky Victor Mature aroma, pleasing to some, not so much to Aryans, Scandinavians and Canucks.
“Da plen, da plen”. Oops. Wrong show.
Just wait it's on next.
“Turkey’s Izmir Ship Recycling Co. acquired the 42-year-old Pacific for 2.5 million euros ($3.3 million).”
Is there that much steel in a ship like this that the scrap value is $3.3 million?
My grandmother loved that show, along with Three’s Company and The Golden Girls. Strange tastes for a woman on the high side of 80.
Not that it’s the poor boat’s fault, but I wouldn’t mourn if we erased every memento of that insipid, moronic show from human memory.
A show made with a boatload of drugs, bad scripts, and disco music..
Abe Vigoda? How about Olivia de Havillland? Yes Melanie from Gone with the Wind lives on at 97 long after almost everyone associated with the movie has passed away. She also appeared on the Love Boat in 1981. That was 33 years ago.
GO, ABE, GO!
Is Gopher still in Congress?
And plots vapid as only Aaron Spelling plots can be. Characters so thin you could see Puerto Vallarta through them. Writing that makes “Family Circus” seem like “Ulysses.” And predictable? You only needed to watch the opening credits and you had the storyline figured out before the first commercial.
I’m all for simple, wholesome entertainment, but a diet that high in treacle could induce a diabetic coma.
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