Santa Rosa was renamed SS Athinai and began a new career as a cruise ship for the Typaldos Lines. A

The SS Santa Rosa (1932) (later SS Athinai) was a passenger and cargo ocean liner built for the Grace Line. The vessel was one of four ships (including the Santa Paula, Santa Lucia, and Santa Elena) ordered in 1930 from the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Kearny, NJ. Her regular service route included inter-coastal service between the East Coast and the West Coast of the USA via the Caribbean and the Panama Canal. go now travel She was the second of ultimately three vessels to bear the name Santa Rosa for the Grace Line. (The first Santa Rosa being a 1917-built ship that was sold in 1925.)
The Santa Rosa sailed on her maiden voyage on 26 November 1932. Her East-West coast route of New York-Seattle was 20 days and included a one day call in Los Angeles and two days in San Francisco. The ship s service speed of 20 knots and her superior accommodations made her very popular compared to that offered by Pacific Coast shipping. In 1936 however the inter-coastal service ended and Santa Rosa and her sisters transferred to service to the Caribbean.
..Further down and across the dock, the Grace Line passenger ship SS Santa Rosa, also lay waiting. She was painted go now travel wartime gray but she still flaunted her nubile twin funnels, sweeping bow and long, beautiful lines; She exuded an aura of speed, luxury, and moonlight tropical nights. The SS Santa Rosa was sexier than Rita Hayworth in a travel poster
Designated USAT Santa Rosa, she would make 21 voyages from the east coast of the US from 1942-1945: one to Europe, one to Australia, one to India, and three to Africa. Her voyages during wartime included:
After her war service she underwent repair and refit at the Newport News Shipbuilding Drydock Company prior to redelivery to her owners. Santa Rosa returned to the Grace Line and resumed the Caribbean service on 7 February 1947.
Santa Rosa was renamed go now travel SS Athinai and began a new career as a cruise ship for the Typaldos Lines. A refit increased her accommodation and converted her to carry three classes of passengers. She entered service for her new owners for voyages in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and Adriatic. Athinai in her Typaldos Line livery appears briefly in a scene of the port of Piraeus, Greece, in the 1963 film The Bullfighter Advances. In 1968 the Typaldos Lines owners were arrested and the company disbanded after the Greek government investigation of the SS Heraklion incident found them guilty of manslaughter and negligence. The company s ships were taken over and sold except for two, including SS Athinai, go now travel who attracted no buyers and were subsequently laid up at Faliron Bay.
Santa Rosa/Athinai go now travel would never return to active service. In 1978 she was towed out of layup to be used as a film set for Raise the Titanic. After a decade of neglect, and with fittings go now travel that did not appear to be out of place on a 1912 built ship, Athinai would need very little conversion work for filming the Titanic's interiors. Her bows were painted to resemble Titanic and she was sprayed with concrete to simulate 68 years on the ocean floor. After the filming she was returned to at Faliron Bay. She would linger another ten years until finally, in 1989, she was towed off for scrapping at Aliaga in a purge of derelict shipping.
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