I am left utterly amazed by your obvious lack of any real knowledge of ocean liner history. Your dismissive comment regarding the Homeric and the Nieuw Amsterdam is simply breathtaking. Yes, by the early 1970s those two ships were quite old and whilst their voyages to the breakers was perhaps to be expected (especially the Homeric because she was fire damaged). However, what you obviously are totally unaware of is the fact that a vast number of ships that had been built in the late 1940s or early mid 1950s or even the 1960s were sent off to be scrapped in the early 1970s, ships that were barely 20 years old and some not even that old. For example; Iberia, Northern Star, Giulio Cesare, Oronsay, Orcades, Orsova, Ruahine, Vera Cruz, Santa Maria, Reina del Mar, Ocean Monarch, Nevasa, Chitral, Himalaya, Chusan, S.A. Oranje, Angola, Mocambique, Imperio, Patria, Accra, President Cleveland. Check them out and understand that what we are about to see is nothing more than what has gone before.