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Name / Owner: NORWAY IMO No: 5119143 Norwegian Cruise Line. reg: Nassau.
Date photographed: September, 2001, departing Halifax for Europe (via Newfoundland) on what was supposed to be her last transatlantic voyage.
Year built / Builder: 1962, Chantiers de L'Atlantique, St Nazaire.
Details: 76,049 gt, 1,035 ft (oa) x 110 ft. Passenger capacity - 2,032 (double occupancy), 920 crew. Propulsion (as of today) - 4 boilers providing steam for 2 Parsons turbines (160,000 shp) driving twin screws at a service speed of about 20 knots.
History: Formerly the FRANCE of Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, she made her maiden transatlantic crossing from Le Havre to New York on February 3, 1962. Laid up in 1974 until bought by a Saudi Arabian businessman, remaining idle until purchased by Lauritz Kloster in 1978 for the then Norwegian Caribbean Lines. Sent to Bremerhaven for a major refit, including a new lido deck, the installation of 5 transverse thrusters and the removal of two of her 4 screws, emerging as the NORWAY. She made her maiden voyage for NCL on June 1, 1980. Refitted in Hamburg in 1984. Two new decks fitted in 1990 increasing her gross tonnage to the present 76,049 from the original, as built, tonnage of 66,343. She was extensively refurbished in 1999 and returned to Caribbean cruising and the occasional Transatlantic crossing. Suffered a tragic boiler explosion in Miami on May 25, 2003 and is currently laid up in Bremerhaven awaiting a decision on her fate.
UPDATE: Left Bremerhaven in May, 2005, where she has been laid-up since July, 2003, under tow for Port Kelang, Malaysia. Reports state that she will be converted into a floating casino and hotel. FURTHER UPDATE: Arrived Alang August, 2006, as the BLUE LADY for breakup.
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