Semester at Sea - First Floating Campus

The MS Seven Seas was the first floating campus for what has become the Semester at Sea program.

The ship served as the floating campus for five voyages (Fall 1963. Fall 1964, Spring 1965, Fall 1965 and Spring 1966).

By the numbers:

The MS Seven Seas logged 98,716 nautical miles during its five voyages.
The MS Seven Seas made 82 ports of call.   46 of these were "first ports."
The ship was in service as a floating campus for 481 days.
260 of these days were at sea, while 221 were in port.

The ship made two crossings of the equator on the Spring 1966 voyage — a rare "double dip" voyage (Only seven times in the history of the program has a floating campus crossed the equator a second time during the voyage).   Of the five voyages, that was the only voyage to cross the equator and welcome King Neptune and his court aboard.

First visit by King Neptune to a Semester at Sea floating campus - February 17, 1966

The MS Seven Seas made four world voyages during its short service, passing through the Suez Canal on four occasions and the Panama Canal once.

The Spring 1966 Voyage remains the longest on record (in terms of days), logging 127 days from start (Feb. 10, 1966) to finish (June 17, 1966).