page_title: Dormitory ship
hierarchical_section_title: Dormitory ship
caption_attribution_description: English: Postcard image of SS Stevens with 14-story Stevens Institute of Technology Student Center building in the background. The 473-foot, 14,893-ton ship served as the floating dormitory from 1968 to 1975 for about 150 students of the institute. SS Stevens, formerly cruise liner SS Exochorda of the New "4 Aces" fleet of American Export Lines, is shown moored at the Eighth Street Pier on the Hoboken, NJ campus. The view is toward the west, from Manhattan, across the Hudson River. This image has been scanned from the original postcard. Approximately 15% of the original image area, the area beyond the ship, was cropped. The grainy appearance of the image is evident in the original postcard. For other photos, see SS Stevens Gallery
context_page_description: A dormitory ship is a vessel which provides as its primary function floating living quarters. Such craft serve as conventional land-based dormitories in all respects except that the living quarters are aboard a floating vessel, most often moored in place near its host facility. It may be seaworthy or not.
  Dormitory ships, regardless of their original design or function, may serve as temporary or permanent housing for refugees, accommodation poor academic institutions, and off-shore oil drilling operations.
  When a vessel is used by the military for dedicated housing, as at shipyards,
  naval bases, and afloat abroad, it is known as a barracks ship.
  An analogue to both is the prison ship, which provides a floating space for incarceration, possibly referred to as a brig in the military.
  A vessel that contains living quarters as ancillary support to its primary function — such as providing hands-on maritime training at sea — is more appropriately categorized as a training ship.
context_section_description: A dormitory ship is a vessel which provides as its primary function floating living quarters. Such craft serve as conventional land-based dormitories in all respects except that the living quarters are aboard a floating vessel, most often moored in place near its host facility.  It may be seaworthy or not.
  Dormitory ships, regardless of their original design or function, may serve as temporary or permanent housing for refugees, accommodation poor academic institutions, and off-shore oil drilling operations. 
  When a vessel is used by the military for dedicated housing, as at shipyards,
  naval bases, and afloat abroad,, it is known as a barracks ship.
  An analogue to both is the prison ship, which provides a floating space for incarceration, possibly referred to as a brig in the military.
  A vessel that contains living quarters as ancillary support to its primary function — such as providing hands-on maritime training at sea — is more appropriately categorized as a training ship.
  In 2016 what had once been the world's largest cruiseferry, Ocean Gala, was chosen by the Swedish migration bureau to become temporary housing for some 1,800 of that nation's estimated 160,000 refugees which had arrived in Sweden in just the prior year seeking asylum there. This proposal did not come to fruition.
caption: SS Stevens, formerly a U.S. Navy Windsor-class attack transport, serving as a dormitory ship at Stevens Institute of Technology, Eighth Street Pier, Hoboken, New Jersey, c. 1970
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