Saga Ruby after Saga

[Twynkle]

Shipping Times reporting that Saga Ruby will be renamed Oasia
http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item_10675.html

[Bruce Nicholls]

Shipping Times reporting that Saga Ruby will be renamed Oasia
http://www.shippingtimes.co.uk/item_10675.html

Marine Traffic is now showing Saga Ruby as Oasia

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/7214715/vessel:OASIA

[pete cain]

Look what happens when there's a plan
     

 http://maritimematters.com/2014/01/saga-ruby-as-burma-hotel/

[pete cain]

https://en-gb.facebook.com/SagaRuby
  page down a bit & there she is   'Oasia' , do so wish QE2 had what seems to be such an orderly transition,
 can't find her at sea though.

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Report on work carried out in Gibraltar before she was renamed.

http://www.marinelink.com/news/gibdock-repair-ruby364101.aspx

[pete cain]

 Here she is doing 15kn off Africa
   http://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=7214715#

[June Ingram]

Thank you very much for all of this information about Ruby.  It does seem as though plans are moving along, and yes, I do wish things were good for our QE2 !

[pete cain]

Have been watching this site for a while now & she seems to've disappeared , anybody help here please

   http://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=7214715#

[June Ingram]

Hi Pete - I tried another Maritime AIS site and found no records for Oasia but found this for Saga Ruby.  It is a few days old though. 

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/311000198

June

[Bruce Nicholls]

Presumably she has arrived in her destination port and the AIS transmitter has been turned off.

[Isabelle Prondzynski]

Maritime Matters reports that she has arrived in Penang (Malaysia) :

http://maritimematters.com/2014/03/arrival-of-oasia/

There are two rather fine photos in the article.

I hope she can manage a swift transition to a stable new role, where we might enjoy visiting her! Fingers crossed...

[Alex Tarry]

Thanks Isabelle…are we thinking that these are her last moments as a working ship, and that any future movement will be via a tug…always a sad moment in a ships life…I recall saying the same when they stopped engines on QE2 during her dry dock last year…

[Rob Lightbody]

I think, really, QE2's last moments as a working ship were November 2008 when her electric motors were stopped for the last time. They haven't been run since.

[June Ingram]

Hi Isabelle - Thank you for posting the link to the story and pictures about Ruby.  She does look good and I hope she will be well looked after. 

Yes, Rob, I agree.  Even with all the grand plans that greeted our QE2's arrival in Dubai, her life as we know it ended.  It certainly would be wonderful if she could "live" again but it looks ever and ever more unlikely.   

[Adam Hodson]

Does anyone have any news on her?