In my last post on the Aquarama/Marine Star, I had lifted two still photos of the ship being scrapped from a YouTube video. Peter Hartung, creator of the video, was kind enough to send me the hi-res versions.
All photos are courtesy of Mr. Selim San, Izmir (Turkey). Click on the thumbnail to see [...]

The author of the YouTube video I posted in my last Aquarama post directed me towards another of his videos. The end of this video shows two shots of the Aquarama/Marine Star being scrapped in Aliaga, Turkey. It truly is no more.
This pretty much closes the book on the Aquarama. Since we [...]

According to the St. Catharines Standard, the Aquarama/Marine Star was scrapped, starting on September 16 last year.
The former passenger and auto ferry Aquarama was sold for scrap and towed to Aliaga, Turkey, last summer. The ship had been idle since 1962.
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The deep-sea tug Aetos Z. took the vessel across the Atlantic and down the Mediterranean [...]

Sharon Linstedt, reporter for the Buffalo News, has a story today on the unknown fate of the Aquarama.
The Marine Star, the rusting passenger ferry that spent more than a decade sitting on the Buffalo waterfront, is on its way to Turkey.
But it is still not known whether the once-proud ship is headed to the scrap [...]

Commenter “Wayne” reports, and corroborated by boatnerd.com, that the Aquarama has been sold and is headed to Greece to fulfill it’s prior destiny to be converted into a floating casino. That would be a bit ironic, seeing as that’s what it’s owners wanted for it all along, but governmental red tape prevented it from [...]

Parked at the Port of Trois-Rivières in Quebec.

Click the link or the photo to take you to the port’s webcam.
The current rumor is that it’s going to Malaysia to become a casino, but it’s all just rumors for now.

Regardless of the fact that nobody’s quite sure where the Aquarama/Marine Star is headed, it is still on the move. Check out the user photos at boatnerd.com to see it passing through the Brockville Narrows of the St. Lawrence River today around noon, and past Morrisburg, NY just after 4pm.

A Buffalo News report from June 30th quotes James A. Everatt, one of the Aquarama’s owners, saying that the ship would not be sold for scrap.
The mothballed and rusting Marine Star, the very large eyesore disguised as a ship docked for the past 12 years in Buffalo’s outer harbor, was headed “in the very near [...]

The Aquarama is gone. For the first time in a long time, there was an unobstructed view of the south side of the Cargill grain elevator, as the Aquarama, more recently known as the Marine Star, was no longer docked along side it. It seems that the rumors were true, and that it [...]

I haven’t reported anything on our rusty old buddy, the Aquarama, recently. Frankly, I haven’t thought much about it. Until today. I got an email inquiry asking if I knew anything about it being sold to an Indian scrap metal salvage company. I hadn’t, but a little googling turned up an [...]