Bound for alang

[Doc Vernon]

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Update: Our good friend Luis Miguel Correia over in Lisbon sent current information on the Vistafjord/Caronia/Saga Ruby. We posted recently that the 44-year-old ship sailed out to Thailand as the Oasia and was to be refitted as a floating hotel in Burma. But those plans never materialized. We then reported that she was sold to Indian scrap merchants and was towed across the Indian Ocean, to Alang for final demolition.


But Luis reports that as the slightly renamed Oasis, the ship was plodding along at 8 knots under her own power in mid April. Once at Alang, she would be driven aground and then the scrapping would begin.


In the attached photo, the ship is seen as the Vistafjord, berthed at Genoa in 1983, and with another bygone cruise ship, the Maxim Gorky (ex-Hamburg) in the foreground,

[j.sabourn]

We all know now where not to drink John . Often wondered why I had a bad head the next day , was someone else’s complaint and was passed on. Nothing to do with quantity just the quality , I often used that as an excuse to tell the wife I was a bit off colour , she didn’t beleive me when I said it must have been something I ate, should have just said was being short changed by the pub manager , Cheers let’s know if you go back into business so can warn my associates who used to be friends . Cheers JS

[Tony Taylor]

In the days we owned the pubs there would always be overspill when pouring a pint.
That went into a tray and at the end of the day those trays were emptied back into the barrels.
Kegs actually all with a screw top that required a special tool to open them.
Got one made up by an unsuspecting customer, recon in any year it would save me about ten kegs of beer.

Friend of mine in the trade advised me not to drink any of the beers served in knobbly glasses as they were usually the ones that had the slops put in. In this area, those type of glasses were not common until the introduction of Youngers Tartan, widely regarded as a posers drink by the traditional straight glass beer drinkers.

[Tony Taylor]

Do you mean these glasses?(Raven Head Glass)Attachment 32812 strangely enough I am working as a volunteer in the village charity shop and a guy brought 4 of these in today.
I have drank a few pints out of glasses like this a few years back. The weight of them full or empty was like doing a barbell workout.

That is the one Lewis, back in the day straight glasses were the norm round here and the dedicated beer drinker would hold up his glass to the light to check for clarity of the beer before he would take the first mouthful, not so easy with that type of glass; they first appeared with Youngers Tartan and you only got one if you ordered Tartan, the other beers still were served in straight glasses. I believe Tartan was the first "keg" beer to arrive on the market round here. late 60's early 70's?

[Red Lead Ted]

Tony, Back in the day when you would get a travel warrant to join your ship by railway, I can just see that glass filled with a loverly pint of DD, That's when railway stations had bars. A very nice beverage DD Like everything else vanished Terry.

[Denis O'Shea]

The dregs were always put in the mild beer along with a couple bottles of guiness to give it a good head (nothing to do with cappy's mary) if put in the bitter beer it would go cloudy and the punters would have your guts for garters round this neck of the woods. Den

[Doc Vernon]

Double Diamond was the worst Beer i Drank, always gave ne a hell of a Headache and Hangover!
Cheers

[j.sabourn]

#18 Plus the sharp points played havoc with your innards when discharging them. JS...

[happy daze john in oz]

A DD works wonders so they said, it was a wonder any one drank it.
Then yes you needed Courage to drink that, they tried to set up here in Oz some many years ago, did not last long.

As to the glasses with handles.
Here in Oz we only drink from glasses without handles.
The local club a year or so ago tried to use the half pint glasses with handle to serve a pot of beer, a pot is about half a pint.
The novelty was fine for a couple of weeks until one guy said to the bar man,
"If I wanted my beer in a tea cup I would ask for it that way',
They were gone next day.