SS Stella Solaris

SS Stella Solaris

SS Stella Solaris (lit. "Star of the Sun", originally known as Cambodge) was an ocean liner built for the Messageries Maritimes in 1952. She mainly provided passenger service between France, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Japan.

Stella Solaris was built in Dunkirk in northern France as the Cambodge, and along with two sister ships, she sailed her first voyage in 1953. Following the 1970s, she was acquired by a Greek company and converted into a cruise ship. Most of her working life was spent as a cruise ship in the Aegean Sea and she also made frequent transatlantic voyages to South America and the Caribbean Sea. Few major damaging incidents happened to Stella Solaris, and she quickly became one of the more popular cruise vessels of the time. An unusual 2003-2004 economic crisis in the cruise ship sector caused many older vessels, such as Stella Solaris, to be sold for scrap. After 54 years of service, she was retired in December 2003 and broken up in Alang, Bhavnagar District, India.