Southern Cross
ocean liner
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Southern Cross
- IMO number
- 5335319
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
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- Vessel type
- ocean liner
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
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- Length overall
- 184.5 m
- Beam
- 24 m
- Year built
- 1955
- Builder
- Harland and Wolff
- Registered owner
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- Operator
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Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Southern Cross
SS Southern Cross was an ocean liner built in 1955 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the Shaw, Savill & Albion Line for Europe to Australia services. In 1975 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and subsequently sailed under the names Calypso, Azure Seas and OceanBreeze until 2003 when she was sold for scrap to Ahmed Muztaba Steel Industries, Chittagong, Bangladesh. The Southern Cross was the first passenger ship of over 20,000 gross register tons to be built that had the engine room (and as a result of that, the funnel) located near the stern, rather than amidships. She started a trend of aft-engined ships, and today most passenger ships are built this way. Southern Cross was also the first major liner to have no cargo space, other than for ship's stores and passenger luggage.
Summary from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA.
Frequently asked questions
- Where is Southern Cross now?
- Southern Cross has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Southern Cross?
- Southern Cross is a ocean liner, built in 1955 by Harland and Wolff. The vessel is 184.5 m long with a beam of 24 m.
- Has Southern Cross been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Southern Cross appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).