::: Nordlys :::

[pakarang]

Based on and a continuation of a thread in our old forum:

http://captainsvoyage.7.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=976

[Asimut]

Nordlys earlier this summer of 2008.

[Sterkoder]

Hurtigruten ASA takes "Nordlys" out of the buoys to sail for "Richard With".
"Nordlys" will sail from Bergen 29th January due to the preparations needed after some time of retirement....

[Ralf__]

I am very surprised, because i would have expected they want to save the money...
For me this is another sign they are bad calculators...

[Ralf__]

Now it is official:

www.newsweb.no

15.01.2009 08:38:55
Utsteder Hurtigruten ASA

Due to the MS Richard With incident, Hurtigruten
will take MS Nordlys out of lay and into
Hurtigruten service from Bergen on the January 29th.

Guests previously booked on MS Richard With will be
transferred to MS Nordlys, which is the sistership
of MS Richard With. Hurtigruten will with this
change be able to offer an equally good product and
service level as before the MS Richard With
incident.

[ehp]

The housewife in me (tiny though it may be) wonders how much there is to do to get Nordlys ready for guests........

[Oistein]

Fire onboard MS Nordlys outside Aalesund.

Hovedredningssentralen for Sør-Norge (The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre for Southern Norway) reports that MS Nordlys is on fire outside Ålesund.

Here more from the Newspaper VG : Hurtigruten brenner utenfor Ålesund

[ombugge]

Fire onboard MS Nordlys outside Aalesund.

Hovedredningssentralen for Sør-Norge (The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre for Southern Norway) reports that MS Nordlys is on fire outside Ålesund.

Here more from the Newspaper VG : Hurtigruten brenner utenfor Ålesund

I'll try to get some pictures soon.

[ombugge]

Video from smp.no: http://www.smp.no/video/?videoId=784 and http://www.smp.no/video/?videoId=783

Own pictures soon.

[ombugge]

The fire was still burning when I got to town at 1045 hrs.:

[ombugge]

Smoke emitted from the engine room ventilators aft on on the funnel:

Whether because they had not been closed at all, or to get rid of the smoke in the engine room after the fire was under control is not possible to say for sure. Pictures on smp.no appears to indicate the first.

Rescue helicopter was in the air:


Two life boats and some MOB-boats were tied up at the guest harbour for visiting pleasure crafts:

[ombugge]

Moved to a new vantage point at Moljaa: