SS Stevens - Timeline of Vessel

Timeline of Vessel

• USS Dauphin (APA-97)
  • December 22, 1943 — Laid down (as cargo ship)
  • June 10, 1944 — Completed as Windsor-class military attack transport and launched by Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland
  • September 23, 1944 — Transferred to Navy and commissioned as Dauphin
  • September 2, 1945 — Present at the Surrender Ceremony of World War II in Tokyo Bay
  • April 30, 1946 — Dauphin decommissioned
  • 1948 — Dauphin sold for commercial service

• SS Exochorda
  • 1948 — Refurbished as passenger-cargo ship, SS Exochorda, for American Export Lines
  • November 2, 1948 — Maiden voyage of Exochorda
  • 1948–1959 — Exochorda served as passenger-cargo ship sailing from New York to the Mediterranean
  • March 15, 1959 — Exochorda towed to Bethlehem Steel Corp. for preparation to be placed in reserve fleet
  • 1959–1967 — Returned to the US Maritime Administration and mothballed in Hudson River Reserve Fleet at Stony Point, NY
  • June 1967 — The U.S. Maritime Administration announced plans to sell the former cruise liner, Exochorda, for either non-transportation use or scrap
  • September 28, 1967 — Announcement of the institute's bid of $130,301 for Exochorda
  • October 1967 — US Maritime Administration awards Exochorda to Stevens Institute of Technology for $130,301 to be used as a floating dormitory
  • October 4, 1967 — Exochorda was towed from the Hudson River Reserve Fleet in Jones Point, N.Y. to the Hoboken Yard of Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Hoboken, New Jersey to be refurbished as a dormitory
  • November 10, 1967 — Vessel towed from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation to the school-owned Eight Street Pier, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ

• SS Stevens
  • November 10, 1967 — Maiden voyage (unpowered)
  • November 1967 — Christened SS Stevens
  • January 1968 — First student residents of Stevens moved aboard
  • May 22, 1968 — Stevens hosted an open house in honor of National Maritime Day
  • June 1968 — Stevens donated parts to her sister ship, USTS Texas Clipper, the former Excambion
  • September 1974 — First women students permitted to reside on Stevens
  • April 1975 — Rising heating and repair costs forced the institute to sell Stevens
  • May 1975 — Farewell party held aboard Stevens
  • May 23, 1975 — Last student leaves Stevens
  • August 26, 1975 — Last Voyage: towed from Hoboken NJ to a shipyard in Chester, PA
  • 1975–1979 — Partially dismantled in Chester, PA
  • March 1979 — Resold to scrappers at Kearny, NJ
  • 1979 — Demolished at Raritan Bay port NJ