Timeline of Vessel
- USS Dauphin (APA-97)
- 22 December 1943 — Laid down (as cargo ship)
- 10 June 1944 — Completed as Windsor-class military attack transport and launched by Bethlehem Sparrows Point Shipyard, Sparrows Point, Maryland
- 23 September 1944 — Transferred to Navy and commissioned as Dauphin
- 2 September 1945 — Present at the Surrender Ceremony of World War II in Tokyo Bay
- 30 April 1946 — Dauphin decommissioned
- 1948 — Dauphin sold for commercial service
- SS Exochorda
- 1948 — Refurbished as passenger-cargo ship, SS Exochorda, for American Export Lines
- 2 November 1948 — Maiden voyage of Exochorda
- 1948–1959 — Exochorda served as passenger-cargo ship sailing from New York to the Mediterranean
- 15 March 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
- 28 September 1967 — Announcement of Stevens Institute of Technology'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
- 4 October 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
- 10 November 1967 — Vessel towed from the Bethlehem Steel Corporation to the school-owned Eight Street Pier, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
- SS Stevens
- November 1967 — Christened SS Stevens
- January 1968 — First student residents of Stevens moved aboard
- 23 May 1975 — Last student leaves Stevens
- 26 August 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
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