Restoring the Aurora, a cruise ship with a storied past

Key Facts

• Sunday Morning June 26, 2022 / 9:51 AM / CBS News Sold on Craigslist, a cruise ship is being restored Sold on Craigslist, a cruise ship is being restored 05:06 The year was 1955, and the Wappen Von Hamburg had just started its life, ferrying tourists from Hamburg, Germany to the island of Helgoland in the North Sea.
• CBS News "I was actually surfing on Craigslist one day and this thing popped up," said Chris Willson, current owner of the ship, which has been re-christened Aurora.
• A former software developer, Willson said initially he just wanted to shoot some video of the inside of the ship: "My idea was to do a virtual tour of the ship, not to buy the ship!" he laughed.
• But something about the boat intrigued Willson, so much so that he ended up bailing it out of some legal trouble it was in, towing it to various locations, and eventually paying, he says, around $800,000 for it, making him the owner of a piece of maritime history.

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