Coming Soon! On The Road To Alang, Part Four: S.S. BLUE LADY (ex NORWAY, FRANCE)

Now that eighteen years have passed, I am free to tell the full story of the S.S. BLUE LADY and her final days at the Indian scrap yards of Alang. I made my fourth trip to India in August of 2006 to document this historic and beloved ship, the former S.S. NORWAY, which was originally the S.S. FRANCE. Once the longest liner in the world and one of the most celebrated, the S.S. FRANCE was converted into the S.S. NORWAY for Norwegian Caribbean Lines (later Norwegian Cruise Line) and became first mega-cruise ship. Her vast success led to the much larger cruise ships of today. A boiler explosion in 2003 ended her career and after years of lay up in Germany and later Malaysia, she was sold for scrap in 2006 and beached at Alang. Her demise was slow, torturous and very controversial and of my nine trips to India, this one was perhaps the most challenged and difficult. The full story is coming soon to MidShipCinema. #oceanliner #ssbluelady #ssnorway #ssfrance #norwegiancaribbeanlines #norwegiancruiseline #ncl #cgt #frenchline #frenchoceanliners #chikungunya