Blue Lady ex-France Scrapping Approved

[Retrovision]

Another classic liner - the famous SS France, now Blue Lady - can now be scrapped at Alang, as the India Supreme Court has recently approved, my MarEx newsletter made me aware of...
www.newsletterscience.com/marex/readmore.cgi?issue_id=265&article_id=2636&l=1&s=42262

More info on the vessel itself can be found here:
www.maritimematters.com/norway.html

I captured this image aboard the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, last year while visiting...

www.worldliners.fotopic.net/p44051974.html

[Mirrlees]

Oh Boy, I was secretly hoping it wouldn't come to this.
I frequent Maritimematters.com and according to the guy that tours these ships while at Alang she's got mold and mildew problems from being in that high humidity for the last 14 months.

I guess in saying that it just might be a good thing that Blue Lady is broken-up. It's better to remember her the way she was and not her sad state today.

She looks terribly sad lying on that beach.

[Northern Exploration]

She was a beautiful ship. I saw her just once on my first ever visit to NYC. Looked great sitting at the pier - I wish I had seen her underway leaving the harbor.

[Mirrlees]

I just read on Maritimematters.com that Blue Lady Ex-Norway, Ex-France is being stripped of removable fittings and furnishings.

No steel cutting has taken place yet, as she needs to be made lighter to drag her further up the beach...

[Mirrlees]

The Blue Lady has now been stripped of her removable fittings; and, the tip of her majestic bow has been cut off....

Source: Maritimematters.com

[Mirrlees]

S.S. Blue Lady is now succumbing to the cutters with the mast and top two aluminum decks well under demolition.

www.maritimematters.com/shipnewspics.html