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- SS Poseidon was 1968–1969 the name of a steam cargo ship built in 1941 for the British Government and originally named Empire Ballard.
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The SS Poseidon had an interesting history. It was originally built in 1931 by German shipbuilders Blohm & Voss, and it was meant to be a luxurious cruise liner for wealthy travelers looking to traverse the Mediterranean Sea.
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The S.S. Poseidon is a fictional transatlantic express liner that first appeared in the 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico and later in four films based on the novel. The ship is named after the god of the seas in Greek mythology. It is based on the Queen Mary, a real ocean liner.
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
In the 1979 film, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, which is a direct continuation of the story from the first film, the Poseidon is an abandoned overturned wreck that has not yet sunk. She is boarded by a small group of salvagers and a group of terrorists in disguise (who are looking for gold and a lost plutonium shipment). Eventually trapped in the ship, they encounter a group of passengers and crew who are still aboard. In the end, the Poseidon's boilers and plutonium cargo explode, sinking the ship permanently and, worse, irradiating her wreckage to unsafe levels.
Poseidon (2005)
In the 2005 TV film The Poseidon Adventure, Poseidon is a modern motor driven cruise ship using propeller pods, which is sailing from Cape Town, South Africa on a cruise through the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia. The events that lead to the capsize of the ship vary greatly from the original book, as it is a partly foiled terrorist plot to sink the ship using explosives below the waterline which leads to Poseidon capsizing.
Poseidon (2006)
In the 2006 film, Poseidon, the ship is not a cruise ship, but a British ocean liner registered in Southampton, which is sailing from an unnamed port in the United Kingdom (presumably London as one of the characters mentions it briefly) to New York City. While the first film used Queen Mary as a stand-in for Poseidon, the ship in the 2006 film has an original exterior design not based on any real-life vessel although the interior was inspired by the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary 2. This Poseidon is also struck by a huge rogue wave just after midnight on New Year's Eve and New Year's and capsizes, but unlike the original the cause of the wave is never explained.
The model of the SS POSEIDON was the original prop in the 1972 classic film “The Poseidon Adventure”. Fifteen men built the model over a period of three months. POSEIDON is 21 .5 feet long, and weighs one ton.
Apr 28, 2024 · The SS Poseidon (formerly the RMS Atlantis) is a fictional transatlantic ocean liner that first appeared in the 1969 novel The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico and later in four films based on the novel. The ship is named after the god of the seas in Greek mythology.
More than thirty years later, Gallico wrote a book based on his potentially disastrous cruise entitled The Poseidon Adventure, about an ocean liner’s final voyage from New York to Greece. At midnight on New Year’s Eve the SS Poseidon is hit by a tidal wave and capsizes.
In 1968, Goldfield was sold to Compagnia de Navigazione Sulemar, Panama and renamed Poseidon. She was operated under the management of V Coccoli, Italy. [2] In September 1969, Poseidon ran aground while on a voyage from Rouen , France to Alexandria , Egypt .
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