Abandoned Cruise Ship Wales

Explorer enters abandoned cruise ship which sat rusting in estuary for decades and was stunned by whats inside.

Abandoned cruise ship wales. Maintaining cruise ships that arent in use is very expensive so many cruise companies are selling part of their fleet for scrap. Haunting pictures show the disused roulette wheel with hundreds of discarded chips dusty gaming tables and old slot and poker machines. Explorers got into this huge abandoned ship on the Welsh coastline - what they found inside blew them away.

The docked Duke of Lancaster cruise ship located in Mostyn North Wales Llanerch-y-Mor UK. Koh Changs abandoned Galaxy Cruise ship from above. On 25 April 1970 the ship returned to service having had her main deck rebuilt to accommodate vehicles via a door at her stern.

From runabouts and high performance cruisers to sailboats. Now living in Romania Mr Rowley said. Passenger ferry steam ship TSS Duke of Lancaster operated from 1956 to 1979.

Haunting eerie and utterly mesmerising. The TSS Duke Of Lancaster has a colourful history having served as a railway steamer and then later as a car ferry. Built at Harland Wolff Belfast and completed in 1956 it replaced another ship of the same name RMS Duke of Lancaster.

The largest cruise ship scrap yard is in Alang India and it recycles more than 50 percent of the worlds abandoned and decommissioned cruise ships. The ship hit bottom so to speak in 2007 when the City of Alameda California officially declared it abandoned. Legal issues and turf tussles with the local council crippled the ownership groups business model however and the Dukes slab sides were gradually covered by rust and unauthorized graffiti.

In August of 1979 the ship was moved to Llanerch-y-Mor near Mostyn Wales to become a static leisure center known as The Fun Ship. TSS Duke Of Lancaster An Abandoned Ship in Wales. The abandoned Duke of Lancaster ship in Wales.