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Title: Lisboa (ex-Princess Danae) scrap photos
Post by: Ricardo on July 31, 2015, 12:35:11 AM

And this is the photos from Turquey that i can find about Lisboa there:

http://mytakkes.blogspot.com/2015/07/lisboa-na-sucata.html (http://mytakkes.blogspot.com/2015/07/lisboa-na-sucata.html)

http://mytakkes.blogspot.com/2015/07/lisboa-em-aliaga.html (http://mytakkes.blogspot.com/2015/07/lisboa-em-aliaga.html)

Also you can find some of them leaving Lisboa (city) here:

http://mytakkes.blogspot.com/2015/07/adeus-lisboa.html (http://mytakkes.blogspot.com/2015/07/adeus-lisboa.html)

Best regards

Title: Re: Lisboa (ex-Princess Danae) scrap photos
Post by: Pier Master on July 31, 2015, 08:31:04 AM

Thanks for the update Ricardo.

Regards, Brian. AKA The Pier Master.

Title: Re: Lisboa (ex-Princess Danae) scrap photos
Post by: Dave Forbes on July 31, 2015, 03:17:02 PM

Where did the maritime tradition come from of renaming a ship for her last voyage to the Breakers for scrapping? Any good answers

Title: Re: Lisboa (ex-Princess Danae) scrap photos
Post by: Phil English on July 31, 2015, 03:32:02 PM

Hi Dave,

This has been covered before but I'll try to explain. It's not a tradition as such. Most ships intended for demolition are sold through intermediaries often referred to as cash buyers. These cash buyers then hope to re-sell ships at a profit to shipbreaking companies, primarily on the Indian sub-Continent. When any ship is sold there is usually a name change. The cash buyer is therefore doing what any trading buyer would do and is renaming his ship - maybe in response to a contract clause. It just so happens that his voyage is often the last one to the breakers yard.


Brgds
Phil

Title: Re: Lisboa (ex-Princess Danae) scrap photos
Post by: PHa on July 31, 2015, 05:21:45 PM

More of this ship on shipspotting: http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/search.php?search_imo=5282483

Regards Peter

Title: Re: Lisboa (ex-Princess Danae) scrap photos
Post by: pieter melissen on July 31, 2015, 05:48:42 PM

and more to this, it is/was also a policy of "respected" shipowners not to be involved with the dirty business of shipscrapping, (and not cleaning up their vessels before going to the breakers yards) You may say want you want about Greenpeace, but they did a proper job in making shipscrapping a more safe and environmentally friendly industry over the years, and the scrap industry has responded by calling hemselves now "ship recyclers". :)

Title: Re: Lisboa (ex-Princess Danae) scrap photos
Post by: Ricardo on July 31, 2015, 09:31:13 PM

Hi.
Is name isn't changed to go ro the scrapyard. The name was changed some months ago when the ship was under reconstruction works in the shipyard, here in Lisbon. The costs of the repair was high and the ship conditon is 't the better, so they give up trying to repair it and introducing again in market has they do with Funchal (at moment laid up here is Lisboa. Porto the same way...)