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SS Exochorda
:''This article describes a post-war "new 4 Aces" ship. A pre-war ship of the same name was a member of the original "4 Aces." ''
SS ''Exochorda'', a 473-foot, 14,500-ton cargo liner in service with American Export Lines from 1948 to 1959. A member of the line's post-war quartet of ships, "4 Aces", ''Exochorda'' sailed regularly from New York on a Mediterranean route. Originally built in 1944 as the military attack transport USS Dauphin (APA-97), the ship was extensively refurbished prior to her service as a passenger-cargo liner. Following her service as a cruise liner, the vessel served as the floating dormitory ship for the students of Stevens Institute of Technology, a technological university, in Hoboken, NJ. At the end of her service life she was scrapped, in 1979.
==Diverted for war service==
In 1944 American Export Lines built a new fleet of "4 Aces" ships, planned to replace the earlier, pre-war "4 Aces". However, the ships were requisitioned by the US Navy for service in World War II and converted to Windsor-class attack transport vessels. The vessel that would later become ''Exochorda'' served as ''Dauphin'' for the US Navy, from 1944 to 1948. ''Dauphin'' was awarded one battle star in the assault on and occupation of Okinawa and earned the Navy Occupation Service Medal for landing cargo and troops in Japan. She was present in Tokyo Bay for the Surrender Ceremony of World War II, 2 September 1945.
Following the war, in November 1947, the ships were returned to dry dock at the Hoboken Yard of Bethlehem Steel Corporation for conversion back to passenger cargo ships for American Export Lines. ''Dauphin'' became ''Exochorda'' of the post-war "4 Aces", taking her new name from her predecessor in the pre-war fleet.
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