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Topic: BLUE LADY Final Image Update on MidShipCentury?

Midshipcentury
First Class Passenger
Member # 12190

posted 12-31-2008 04:33 AM

This may well be the last view I get of her, taken from on board SS TOPAZ -- as there is no access to BL's port side anymore. Apparently, a large tanker is in the way. I suspect the rest of her will be gone by February, at the latest.

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Peter

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Johan
First Class Passenger
Member # 4458

posted 12-31-2008 04:59 AM

A sad sight to end the year.

May we have much nicer photos next year !

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 12-31-2008 08:07 AM

Unfortunately I think the recession will help terminate the operational lives of many of the worlds remaining 'classic ships' in the next year or two.

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desirod7
First Class Passenger
Member # 1626

posted 12-31-2008 12:07 PM

This photo http://www.midshipcentury.com/images/bluelady12-29-08.jpg

shows what is left of the Roman Spa. Apparantly they were not gonna strip it out until the large hole was made

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jetwet1
First Class Passenger
Member # 6361

posted 12-31-2008 02:45 PM

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SCOTT H
First Class Passenger
Member # 6831

posted 12-31-2008 05:40 PM

R.I.P.

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dmwnc1
Cruise Director
Member # 3785

posted 12-31-2008 06:14 PM

Thats got to be some kind of record? From the first pictures we saw of her firmly aground at Alang on August 15, 2006 to her final dismantling sometime in January 2009. Wow.

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sslewis
First Class Passenger
Member # 3649

posted 01-09-2009 01:18 PM

Alang became what they are thanks to Canberra, another very well built ship that broke its shipbreakers!
What would be nice is to know excatly where the stell will be used.
ssNorway was first grade and will be recycled for Dubai hungry scryscraper..or may be Palm Jumeira hotles???
It would be nice to know...
Normandie's scrap helped develop many US towns after WW2.

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Midshipcentury
First Class Passenger
Member # 12190

posted 01-09-2009 06:47 PM

Alang was huge long before CANBERRA went to Pakistan in 1997. Pakistan has foundered because of terrorism and corruption, which makes Alang look like tea at the CP hotel in Victoria. If the shipbreakers there do not comply with the local gang lords, they are shot or have their throats cut. Also, with few exceptions, Pakistan and Bangladesh are not keen on passenger ships as they do not have the local marketplace for all the fittings and furniture.

Peter

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DAMBROSI
First Class Passenger
Member # 100

posted 01-09-2009 08:32 PM

I hate to say this, but in the photo I can't tell what is left of the NORWAY. It's not clear enough for me. Could someone please circle what's left of the Roman Spa so I can see?? Thank you.

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Vaccaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 465

posted 01-10-2009 03:55 AM

Deborah,

You CANNOT see the Roman Spa in the above photo since it was located exactely between the mid distance between the two stabilizers fins and terminating just above the fore stab fins.

In short, either this part is on the beach and you can't see it since hidden by the big metal thing on the foreground (at the right of the photo, on the beach), either it already has been scrapped and no longer exists.
The only stab fin you can see on the photo is the aft starboard one.
In any cases, you can't see it on this above photo.

[ 01-10-2009: Message edited by: Vaccaro ]

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DAMBROSI
First Class Passenger
Member # 100

posted 01-10-2009 02:25 PM

Thank you very much Vaccaro, I appreciate your keen eyes on this subject. I kept trying and realized I really wasn't seeing a thing.

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sslewis
First Class Passenger
Member # 3649

posted 01-12-2009 01:27 PM

Peter,
Pakistan may well still have bits from Michelangelo and Canberra, buttravelling there with a UK/US passport wouldn't be wise now!
I heard on another topic that it was a pity remains from the hulls weren't used for shiplovers.
After Seawise University sank in Hong Kong, pens were made from her hull and her wreck starred in a James bond.
ssNorway desserves some immortality in death too and many bits of liners remains to be seen around the world.
Does someone knows where excatly the steel from Alang goes?
Dubai? Taiwan?

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nathan
First Class Passenger
Member # 720

posted 01-12-2009 04:15 PM

Which Bond movie was that? I think I'll rent it.

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VDK
First Class Passenger
Member # 3460

posted 01-12-2009 04:30 PM

The Man with the Golden Gun was the Bond movie that had the wreck of the Queen Elizabeth in it.

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 01-12-2009 04:56 PM

quote:
Originally posted by VDK:
The Man with the Golden Gun was the Bond movie that had the wreck of the Queen Elizabeth in it.

That was a great Bond film w/spectacular scenery.

The sets built to resemble the interiors of the capsized ship were quite good. Don't forget those amazing images of Seawise University burning in the photo section here.

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Rex
First Class Passenger
Member # 1113

posted 01-29-2009 03:39 PM

Wow. Looks like they are moving right along. Better for her than to sit there, rotting, like the Big U.

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 01-31-2009 01:22 PM

The James Bond movie was "You Only Live Twice," not "The Man With The Golden Gun." I am fairly sure I'm correct on this.

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BYEFairwind
First Class Passenger
Member # 4416

posted 01-31-2009 01:36 PM

It was "The Man with the Golden Gun". Who could forget Nick Nack.

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 01-31-2009 03:10 PM

I stand corrected. "The Man With The Golden Gun" was one of two Bond films I disliked. The other was the re-make of "Thunderball" with Klaus Maria Brandauer. The name of which escapes me.

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Thad
First Class Passenger
Member # 1224

posted 01-31-2009 03:33 PM

Never Say Never Again....

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GregD
First Class Passenger
Member # 4176

posted 01-31-2009 04:58 PM

quote:
Originally posted by NAL:
The James Bond movie was "You Only Live Twice," not "The Man With The Golden Gun." I am fairly sure I'm correct on this.

Actually both were filmed in Hong Kong. But only the The Man with the Golden Gun featured the QE in it. I think the QE was still sailing when You Only Live Twice was made.

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Brian_O
First Class Passenger
Member # 3910

posted 01-31-2009 05:19 PM

quote:
Originally posted by GregD:
Actually both were filmed in Hong Kong. But only the The Man with the Golden Gun featured the QE in it. I think the QE was still sailing when You Only Live Twice was made.

"You only Live Twice" with Sean Connery was released in 1967. The Bond Movie which featured the QE wreck in Hong Kong was definitely "The Man with the Golden Gun" with Roger Moore as JB and Christopher Lee as the title character. It was released in 1974.

Brian

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