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Topic: SS Norway:the end?

Marshall
Just Boarded
Member # 7358

posted 09-07-2006 04:21 PM

I was saddened today to see pictures of the former SS Norway (now Blue Lady) lying beached and awaiting to be scrapped at I think, Alang in India.
It's just so sad to see a well designed, gracious ocean liner beached and ready for the scrapheap.
I still think she could be used as a floating hotel/conference centre/museum in France, under the name SS France and returned to the French Line's livery. Like the QE2, she is too good to go to the scrapheap.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 09-07-2006 07:23 PM

Yes, it's caused us here some heartache.

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mrblanche
First Class Passenger
Member # 714

posted 09-08-2006 11:57 AM

Do you have a link for those photos?

We were on the Norway about 3 weeks before the boiler explosion.

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Pascal
First Class Passenger
Member # 5510

posted 09-08-2006 12:23 PM

Obviously, as strange as it may seem, some people still think se can be saved. It appears that she's still too away from the shore for the scrap work to start (she still requires to be anchored) and that she can be "unbeached" easily during high tides. More over, the legal issues don't seem to be solved.

But the next high tides can be used as well to close her to the coast and that would be the end. Sadly, this is the most probalbe thing to expect.

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 09-08-2006 09:03 PM

quote:
Originally posted by mrblanche:
Do you have a link for those photos?
We were on the Norway about 3 weeks before the boiler explosion.

Maritime Matters has pics of her on the beach.

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moodus2
First Class Passenger
Member # 2414

posted 09-09-2006 08:06 PM

watching a documentary about
oceanliners they had a segment
on ss france/norway. as the
ss norway using two props at
57000 horsepower she burned
400,000 gallons of fuel on a
7-day trip.
400,000 gallons x $3 a gallon
= $1,200,000
i can see why they did not
repair her.

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gpcruisedude
First Class Passenger
Member # 3533

posted 09-09-2006 09:25 PM

The Norway is still very much in the Indian Legal System...as I hear they are now going to issue another report for a new team to check out her asbestos. And the Indian Courts still basically will have the Ultimate decision saying if she has to be re-floated and towed away from Alang. I think this is something we all need to be aware of, the Indian Courts are the ones with the ball in their park, NOT the scrappers...any further movement of the Norway by the scrappers and their will be Big Problems for the scrapping company that owns her.

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claudio
First Class Passenger
Member # 1214

posted 09-09-2006 10:29 PM

i cant understand the fuss about scrapping the norway i cant imagine any of you whingers out there driving around in a 1960,s car things wear out its just the way it is. and this crap about asbestos in norway i take every other ship thats been scrapped in alang is asbestos free

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Brian_O
First Class Passenger
Member # 3910

posted 09-10-2006 12:54 AM

quote:
Originally posted by moodus2:

400,000 gallons x $3 a gallon
= $1,200,000

The Norway did not burn gasoline (petrol), so $3 per gallon is not the relevant number. IFO 380 costs about half that amount: about $330 US per metric tonne.

Brian

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Pascal
First Class Passenger
Member # 5510

posted 09-10-2006 07:01 AM

quote:
Originally posted by claudio:
i cant understand the fuss about scrapping the norway i cant imagine any of you whingers out there driving around in a 1960,s car things wear out its just the way it is. and this crap about asbestos in norway i take every other ship thats been scrapped in alang is asbestos free

It's not because we don't drive a 1960 car that we aren't happy to see a few models preserved by passionated people. And the same goes for ships, the only difference being the amount of money needed to maintain them. If we had to destroy all the things old and obsolete there would't be much left of the world heritage.

Concerning the abestos issue, it's true that environmental organizations and justice courts could have reacted much sooner in many other occasions.
But as we say in French "mieux vaut tard que jamais" (better later than never).

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