Service History
In October 2011 the Norwegian government announced that they had bought the five ships for 477 million kroner from Remøy Shipping, from whom they previously leased the ships, for a projected saving of 111 million kroner before the vessels are scrapped around 2030.
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Famous quotes containing the words service and/or history:
“In public buildings set aside for the care and maintenance of the goods of the middle ages, a staff of civil service art attendants praise all the dead, irrelevant scribblings and scrawlings that, at best, have only historical interest for idiots and layabouts.”
—George Grosz (1893–1959)
“The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)