After Retirement
After the Topaz was retired in April, she was laid up. On June 15, while she was anchored, she was struck by the tanker Champion Brali. The collision severed off part of her bow. During her lay up, she was sold to the breakers. In the late summer of 2008, the Topaz was beached in Alang, India to be scrapped. She was placed not too far away from where the remains of the SS France / SS Norway are located. The ship began demolition a few months after being beached. As of November 2009, most of the ship had been scrapped.
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