Saga Ruby

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IMO 7214715 , Dead.
Passenger - Part General Cargo / Cruise Ship.
Dim : Loa / Lpp x Beam : 191.1 / 167.7 x 24.5 mtr.
Passenger Capacity : 720 Guests.
Officers & Crew Approx : 380.
Built in 1973/05 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Shipbuilders Ltd Wallsend United Kingdom as " VISTAFJORD " for Sameiet Vistafjord ( Den Norske Amerika Linje A/S Oslo as manager ) Oslo Norway.

Tonnage : grt / nrt / tdw - 24.291 / 12.770 / 5.600.
Main Engine : G.Clark Sulzer 9RD68 - 2 x 12.000 bhp / 150 rpm.
Aux.Engine : 6 x 690 kw.
Emerg.Gen : 1 x 250 kw.

1981 Sold/Transferred to K/S Norwegian America Cruises A/S (Leif Hoegh Rederi & Co A/S as manager ) Oslo Norway.
1983 Sold/Transferred to K/S Norwegian America Line Cruises A/S ( Same manager ) Oslo Norway.
1984 Sold to Cunard Cruise Ship Ltd ( Cunard Line Ltd London United Kingdom as manager ) Nassau Bahamas.
1993 Transferred to Cunard Steam-Ship Co P.l.c ( Same manager ) Nassau Bahamas.

1994 Remeasured : grt / nrt - 24.492 / 9.356.

1998 Transferred to Cunard Line Ltd ( Same manager ) Nassau Bahamas.
1999 Transferred to Cunard Line (Bermuda) Ltd Southamton United Kingdom,renamed " CARONIA ".
2003 Transferred to Saga Cruise Co Ltd Folkstone/London United Kingdom.
2005 Renamed " SAGA RUBY ".
2009 Owner renamed Acromax Shipping Ltd Valletta Malta.
2014 Sold to Millenium View Ltd (Fleetpro Ovean Inc Miami Fl USA as manager ) Nassau Bahamas,renamed " OASIA ".
2017 Sold for demolision to Best OasisLtd Mumbai India,renamed " OASIS ".

2017/04 BU Alang India.




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Sailed on this on her last trip to the Caribbean but did not get there as one of her generators blew up!!
She was a lovely ship,but I think she has now been scrapped in India.

manolito_1

Indeed she has been scrapped.

The former VISTAFJORD arrived for scrapping at Alang, India in April 2017 after her previous owners went bankrupt.

Saga Cruises sold the Saga Ruby in January 2014 to a Singapore based group called Millennium View Ltd for $14m. She was totally refurbished into a hotel and museum ship at a cost of $10m and renamed the OASIA and relocated to a destination in Myanmar.

The owners of the OASIA went bankrupt in January 2017 and it was announced in February 2017 that the OASIA, the former (VISTAFJORD, CARONIA, SAGA RUBY) would be scrapped which came as a surprise to many considering the amount of money that was spent on her transformation into a hotel plus she was still SOLAS compliant.

The OASIA was taken to Thailand after the bankruptcy of it's owners and she was towed to Alang for scrapping.

Sean