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These watertight control valves were standard fixtures in several passenger ships built by Deutsche Werft. A similar one exists today on the Turkish liner AKDENIZ. An amazing, rare artifact worth its price for the brass, alone.<br><br> </p><img class="item" src="images/dolphin.jpg"><img class="item" src="images/dolphinbridge.jpg"> <img class="item" src="images/dolphinbridgecloseup.jpg"><p class="caption">Top to bottom: SS DOLPHIN departing Port Canaveral in Canaveral Cruise Line livery; DOLPHIN wheelhouse; DOLPHIN wheelhouse detail showing valve. Photos and copyright Peter Knego 2000.</p><p class="item"> The DOLPHIN was built for Zim Lines as the combi-liner ZION for transatlantic service by Deutsche Werft of Hamburg (hull number 691). She was sold for Portuguese Canary Islands service in 1966, becoming the AMELIA DE MELLO, then sold again in 1972, when she was completely modernized and rebuilt in Spain and renamed ITHACA for Ulysses Line. In 1978, she became DOLPHIN IV sailing for Ulysses, Paquet, Dolphin and Cape Canaveral Cruise Lines until finally laid up in 2000. She was scrapped at Alang in 2003.</p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>