Last passage to India for boat that has become an ‘ecological wreck’

The SS France, once the epitome of Gallic glamour, is nearing her end, hauled behind a tugboat to the breaker’s yard. But Greenpeace is not allowing her to go quietly Somewhere in the Indian Ocean, a vast ship is slowly heading west. It is not travelling under its own power – its engines have long fallen silent – but is being slowly tugged across the waves on its way towards the scrapyard.