Better than to be scrapped...

There are two points of view when visiting a ship that has been transformed into a museum. The landlubber will undoubtedly appreciate the old nautical and navigational instruments, be curious about the crew cabins and be astonished by the engine dimensions…

The mariner will step aboard and immediately realize that this once glorious vessel is in fact dead. The continuous noise and vibrations coming from the engine room are not there, there is no rolling whatsoever, when opening the engine room door you do not get overwhelmed by the heat, the handrails down to the main engine are not burning, the ever present mixed smell of diesel with food being prepared on the galley is missing, there is no one standing on the bridge and instead of the crew what you see is a bunch of tourists using cameras and explaining their wives that nowadays it takes one GPS and one parrot to run the vessel (although I think that the parrot will face unemployment soon…)

Nevertheless these are always good occasions to take some shots and think that it is better to be a museum than to end in some beach in Alang…

Radiogoniometer (radio -who? I ear some asking...)

Not an item of the lifeboats! These were used on the galley's oven.

On the bridge is Full Astern and on the engine room is Stopped. Must call that Chief Engineer at once!