Saga Ruby after Saga

[Twynkle]

Peter Newell's excellent report on Saga Ruby, just before she ended her service as a passenger ship.
Little of the interior decor and furniture as we knew her is left now.
http://maritimematters.com/2014/01/a-last-look-inside-saga-ruby/
Millennium View have carried out extensive refitting including black wood installations, with various  Blue carpets etc in the public areas...
The only photos are included in the message from SAL on FB

Apparently, she is "definitely" due to sail to India for scrapping.
Today following a period at anchor at Sattahip, she is underway in the Gulf of Thailand.
Pete - take a look at her on the AIS, her slow passage looks a little erratic from here!
Wouldn't it be fantastic if none of the info re India online is true? 
Best to you and Mrs P
R.


 

[pete cain]

If only Rosie, if only, recon she can just about make headway ,looking at that track? why spend all that money buying & refitting her , then to say what the hell 'get rid'?  There's years left in her, nobody with vision, around nowadays

[Adam Hodson]

Awful news Such a shame, if only something could be done to save her. From the photos she still looks to be in good condition inside, what a shame. One of, if not the last elegant cruise ships left now going - she looked great with her classic liner lines!

[Trevor Harris]

if only something could be done to save her.

We all wish we could save her. It's sad to see ships that actually look like ships are being scrapped today.

[Hank Hargrove]

I don't think I can handle any more sad ship news this year...First Marco Polo is to be sold (here's hoping to another career after CMV), then Astoria, then Vistafjord, and possibly the SS United States and Queen Mary might one day join the scrap heap. I'd love an 11th hour bid on the Vistafjord, but those never happen.

[Hank Hargrove]

Awful news Such a shame, if only something could be done to save her. From the photos she still looks to be in good condition inside, what a shame. One of, if not the last elegant cruise ships left now going - she looked great with her classic liner lines!

Given that she was the last largish ocean liner built until the QM2, it's a shame that she had to end this way. It's a real shame as with her being not too big and not too small, it could have worked as a hotel somewhere in Europe, or perhaps North America, which has a curious lack of preserved liners compared to Europe. Hope you are well Adam!

[Roy Warrender]

Hi not to sure what's happening at the moment marinetraffic indicates her returning To Sattahip on 28th

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:372123/mmsi:341993000/vessel:OASIA/_:60be68a286aa22308145a7132f6f28dc

Anyone noticed AIS  name changed  to OASIS

[Twynkle]

Hi not to sure what's happening at the moment marinetraffic indicates her returning To Sattahip on 28th

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:372123/mmsi:341993000/vessel:OASIA/_:60be68a286aa22308145a7132f6f28dc

Anyone noticed AIS  name changed  to OASIS

Isn't her current name MV OASIA, Roy?

[Roy Warrender]

I believe it is but they have changed the AIS signal to show OASIS,  this change can only be done By the onboard crew

[Roy Warrender]

Hi
Reports indicate Oasia Left Satterhip on Monday for India  At this time She is at anchor South east of Satterhip still indicating a return on the 28th

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:372123/mmsi:311000198/vessel:OASIA/_:60be68a286aa22308145a7132f6f28dc

[Bruce Nicholls]

Oasia / Oasis now on route to Singapore according to Marine Traffic.

[June Ingram]

Does the info show if she is under her own power ?

[Bruce Nicholls]

Looked to be under power.

[Roy Warrender]

Hi
last report 18:24  yesterday Underway Using Engine heading to Singapore

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:372123/mmsi:311000198/vessel:OASIA/_:60be68a286aa22308145a7132f6f28dc

[June Ingram]

Thanks, Bruce and Roy !

Would Ruby be heading to Singapore if she were going to be broken up ?