a United
States passenger steamship, launched in 1950, measuring 683 feet (208 m) in length. As originally built, the
ship carried 1,000 passengers and traveled the
Atlantic. However, by the mid-1960s,
Trans-
Atlantic trade had drastically declined for all steamship
lines and from 1968 until the early 1980s the
Constitution was out of
commission. Put back into
service as a Hawaiian cruise
ship, she remained in
use until the
late 1990s. In 1997 while on her way to a scrapyard in the
Far East she started taking in water and sank in the Pacific Ocean.