The SS Constitution and SS Britanis (formerly Monterey, Matsonia, and Lurline) were grand liners that sailed above the seas for decades throughout the mid and late 20th century, taking thousands of passengers all of those years. These historic liners, respectively built in the 1930s and 1950s, were once luxury liners, but then got retired from service, and then purposed to be scrapped, but both sank undertow their scrapyards. The SS Constitution was laid down in Massachusetts in 1950, and s first set a sail in 1951, and her identical sister ship was SS Independence. She was retired and sold from service under American Export Lines’ ownership in 1974, and was laid up in places such as Florida and Hong Kong until the 1980s, when she was purchased by a Hawaiian Cruise Line, and renamed Oceanic Constitution, even Grace Kelly went aboard her in 1982, and one room inside was renamed the Princess Grace Room, and after that she was bought by other Hawaiian cruise lines throughout her later years in the 1980s and 1990s. She was retired in 1995, and sank 700 nautical miles from Hawaii on November 17, 1997, her wreck was never discovered after the event, but it is likely that she did not split up while sinking. 

The RHMS Britanis was laid down in 1931, and was completed in 1932, her maiden voyage took place between December 1932 and January 1933, and was bound via Panama Canal. She was originally named SS Monterey, but renamed SS Matsonia in 1957, and then Lurline in 1963. In 1970, Matsonia Lines sold her to Chandris Lines, who renamed her, Britanis. She was owned by Chandris until the 1990’s, but transferred to Chandris’ subsidiary Fantasy Cruises in 1982 then she was chartered by the US Government in 1994, and was bought by A G Belofin Investments in 1998. While she was being towed capsized and sank 50 miles off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, on October 21, 2000. She was being towed to a scrapyard in India when a leak developed in her aft section and the cost of repairs was deemed too high. She most likely did not split in half.

There are only 16 ocean liners left out of the 500 ever built. 2 of them are currently reaching their fate, that is the SS United States and Mv Astoria (formerly Stockholm), we need to save the SS United States now before she is reefed, and if you find it possible, maybe the Astoria as well. We need to get these liners back afloat.