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The Independence (23,719 grt, 682 ft. long), in service with American Export Lines 1951-1967.
After an interlude under other names she again became the Independence in 1982. During two decades
she cruised in Hawaiian waters for the American Hawaii Cruises. Following the September 11
attacks she was laid up in California in October 2001. She was towed to Dubai and
eventually India in 2008-2009, and after a lengthy controversy scrapped within two years.
Her sister, the Constitution, sank in the Pacific in 1998, when being towed for a scrap yard in Japan.
From a 1960 combined American Export Lines/United States Lines cruise brochure.
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