Cruise ship to serve as emergency lodging for college kids
Things just got a lot brighter for several hundred students of St. Mary"s College of Maryland. Instead of a semester in a moldy dormitory, they"ll be spending the coming months on a cruise ship.
The small liberal arts college says it has chartered the 301-passenger Sea Voyager, an out-of-service coastal cruise vessel, to serve as emergency lodging for more than 200 students displaced from residence halls by an outbreak of mold.
Cruise aficionados will recall the 10-year-old vessel as the Cape May Light, which was built for the long-defunct Delta Queen Coastal Voyages line. (Read what we wrote about the ship at its debut in 2001).
The Washington Post reports the 286-foot-long vessel will dock along the waterfront of St. Mary"s City, Maryland on Friday to begin its new role as a college dormitory. Students at the college were evacuated last week from two on-campus dormitories after a doc