Random Topic For The Day

So i was bored last night on night watch (imagine that) and around 3 a.m. or so i ran across the website of Hurtigruten, the 115-year-old Norwegian ferry company that used to operate the Caribbean Mercy before it became a Mercy Ship. Formerly MS Polarlys, as you probably already knew, she was purpose-built for the ice and storms of the far North Atlantic, and she served about forty-five years connecting the little fjord-isolated villages far to the north of Bergen. (see photo)



Interestingly, they replaced our little ship with a new Polarlys that entered service in 1996:


I know at least one CBMer who has sailed as a passenger on the new Polarlys. She said that when the crew discovered she was from their old ship, now the Caribbean Mercy - which many of them remembered well - they took her in and adopted her like she was family.

Maybe theirs is newer, but i say ours is prettier. So there.