BLUE LADY (ex NORWAY) Scrapyard Engine Room Walk Through (Raw Footage)

In August of 2006, Peter Knego made his fourth trip to Alang, India to visit and document the SS BLUE LADY, the former SS FRANCE of 1961 and, later, of course, the much-loved, pioneering mega-cruise ship SS NORWAY. This footage takes the viewer on a walk through the ship's vast engine and boiler rooms, lit only by Knego's camcorder and his helper and friend Bhagwan's flashlight. It shows some of the devastation after the boiler explosion (#23) that took the lives of eight crew members and sealed the ship's fate on May 25, 2003. After the NORWAY's accident, the ship was towed to Bremerhaven and eventually to Port Klang, Malaysia where she was sold for scrap. In 2006, she was renamed BLUE LADY and towed to Alang, where she was beached a couple weeks before Knego arrived. Knego was one of only a handful of westerners to visit the ship in India and he documented all of the spaces he could, from the top of her mast to her engine room, tip of bow to stern. Some of this footage will appear in the forthcoming, full length video production, "BLUE LADY Blues (On The Road To Alang, Part Four)" coming soon to this channel.