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I posted this on Ask a Cruise Question, as well, but thought it might find some interest here.

I was first aware of Semester at Sea in the late 90's, when the ship being used was the SS Universe Explorer (originally SS Brasil of 1957).

Some of the other ships used over the years were MS Seven Seas (formerly USS Long Island). SS Ryndam, SS Universe (former SS Atlantic), MV Explorer, and MS Deutschland, which became MV World Odyssey.  I had forgotten that the Queen Elizabeth was to become the SS Seawise, and was bring converted for Semester at Sea purposes when she sank in Hong Kong Harbour.

Are any of you familiar with Semester at Sea, or with any of those ships?

 

 

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Hi shipgeeks,

 

World Campus Afloat – later Semester at Sea, was initially supported 
by Holland America Line and from 1971 by C.Y. Tung's Seawise Organisation.
Beside the educational cruise organisation,World Explorer Cruises was 
founded, to employ the ship UNIVERSE CAMPUS / UNIVERSE as a normal 
cruise ship in the off-school-season.

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Cruises in the Caribbean, Panama Canal cruises and many trips to Alaska 
made World Explorer Cruises a renowned recommended cruise operator.
The entire history of Semester at Sea:

 

https://www.semesteratsea.org/contact/our-history/

WORLD ODYSSEY / DEUTSCHLAND is a popular cruise ship that undertakes 
cruises for Phoenix Reisen mostly for European clients in the off-season.
More information here in German only :

 

https://www.phoenixreisen.com/ms-deutschland.html

&

 

https://www.phoenixreisen.com/web2/kataloge/See_2021_Neuauflage/

 

Parallel to Semester at Sea, the Japanese Peace Boat Organization runs 
with a comparable ambience and boat travel offers also for normal people.


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History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Boat

 

Website Peace Boat Org.:

 

https://peaceboat.org/english/about-peace-boat



 

and more past! -

Educational cruises were popular also in the UK as early as the 1930s. Troop

carriers from Bibby Line and British India Steam Navigation were used.

In the 50s.and 60s. it got an independent business under British India Steam

Navigation management, one of the branch of the P&O Group.

History:

https://prehistorian.wordpress.com/2019/01/30/the-educational-cruises-of-the-bi-line/

&

https://www.cruiseinsider.dk/post/school-cruises-1

&

http://www.ssuganda.co.uk/educ/

 

 

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After the UGANDA was no longer available as a student cruise ship, 
a British organization called Schools Abroad chartered mostly Greek 
ships like the Greek ferry NEPTUNIA or the Greek cruiseship JUPITER from 1984 - 
which was full of students and teachers when it went down in 1988 after
a collision with a freighter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Jupiter_(1961)

 

After this disaster, I believe, Schools Abroad ceased his operation 
with cruises.

 

 

 

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