(DALIANNEWS)-The fate of retired Oriana, the world's only
deluxe liner-theme Park and a famous static attraction once berthed at Dalian
Xinghai Bay finally came out today, fueled from a department director surnamed
of Zhou from Wuyou Shipbreaking Dock of Jiangsu Province, China.
The hulk is now under splitting into trashes at Wuyou Dock
based in Zhangjiagang Port.
In a telephone interview, Mr.
Zhou told the reporter that they had alreday started the work since last week,
the total work will not be finished by the end of this year. The trash will be
sold out.
Other important informations such as why the government finally gave up the
plan to revivify her or how many steel trashes shall be producted and the total
volume are still uncovered.
SS Oriana liner,the world's only deluxe liner-theme
Park and a famous static attraction at Dalian Xinghai resort area departed
from Xinghai Bay on May.12, 2005, after a deadly hull damage and
lurching in the water for a year ago.
This postcard of "the 1st Lady of the Sea"
in her splendid age shows Oriana with her original corn hull
Built in 1957 and set its maiden sail in 1959
from the same port where Titanic from the same shipbuilding factory, Britain¡¯s
Orient Line, set the maiden sail, SS Oriana is known as the ¡°former British
Royal Vessel¡± featuring the British culture and a palace at sea.
But
renowned here in Dalian ever since her arrival in Xinghai Bay on 28th, June,
2002, local citizens favors her more as the nickname of ¡°White
Princess¡±.
Oriana caught a fire just after her opening to public yet
she didn¡¯t suffer from much loss. As a local tourist destination, the Park
failed to attract enough tourists due to relatively higher tickets price of 80
RMB yuan.
Her tragedy continues. About 2AM on June 18, 2004 a strong gale
caused ORIANA her to heel over at a sharp list to port, dumping the access ways
in to the bay, the fatal damage was just after local administration determined
to remodel her into a free public park.
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