Four Aces (passenger liners)

The 4 Aces

of up to 40 days.

During

.

Excambion, Excalibur, and Exeter were lost to enemy action;

During World War II the company's subsidiary

in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.

The New “4 Aces”

After World War II, American Export Lines purchased four

became Exeter. The quartet sailed under the AEL flag until the 1960s.

Stevens Institute

In 1968, the post-war SS Exochorda was purchased by Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey to alleviate a shortage of on-campus student housing. It was refurbished at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard in Hoboken, renamed SS Stevens and anchored on the Hudson River adjacent to the campus, where it served a dormitory. It remained in service until 1975, when skyrocketing utility costs made its continued operation prohibitive. Before it was towed away and sold for scrap, one of Stevens' anchors was removed and permanently displayed on campus as a memento.

In 1965, the post-war Excambion became

until being sunk as an artificial reef on November 17, 2007.

Notes

^ a:  Brochures and print ads published by American Export Lines identified their quartet of ships as "4 Aces", as opposed to "Four Aces".
^ b:  In 1964, American Export Lines merged with Isbrandtsen Co., becoming American Export-Isbrandtsen Lines.

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