Now here is a nice cruiser
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I see her every time I'm out on my boat. The condition that she's in is sad. She literally looks like she's rotting away at her berth. Some day I hope to see inside, but with so many portholes broken out what I can see looks like she's completely stripped of everything worth anything. It also looks like they recently sold at least one of her propellers. There used to be 4 on the aft deck and last time I was out I only saw one there.
I have mixed feelings about this. Yes it's good to restore certain things, but not this. The ship is in such disrepair, it would cost too much to restore it. And for what end? Is it ever going to recoup the costs of a total refit? Not likely with the competition out there with existing cruise ships. You just can't restore every ship, every "historic" house, or every classic car.
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They re not trying to restore the ship to be operational but instead as a convention center, hotel , attraction like the Queen Mary in long beach
Read Up on the SS United States and you ll she has an incredible history and worth acing from the scrap yards...
Read Up on the SS United States and you ll she has an incredible history and worth acing from the scrap yards...
Let it settle in relatively shallow water and put a wind farm and bait & tackle shop on it.
It was classically beautiful indeed , but I expect it's feasible reclamation window has long closed.
P.s., I'd love to be proven wrong and see it put to good shipshape use of some kind.
It was classically beautiful indeed , but I expect it's feasible reclamation window has long closed.
P.s., I'd love to be proven wrong and see it put to good shipshape use of some kind.
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One of her props is on display at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, VA, apparently since 2008.
I tried posting links to Google Street View, but they were unworkably long. You can see the prop at the intersection of Warwick Blvd (US 60) and Avenue of the Arts (J. Clyde Morris Blvd.).
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I tried posting links to Google Street View, but they were unworkably long. You can see the prop at the intersection of Warwick Blvd (US 60) and Avenue of the Arts (J. Clyde Morris Blvd.).
V/R
Trans-Atlantic travel by ship was popular at least for the first 10 years after the United States was launched in 1952 (the ship can be seen docked in Manhattan in the opening of West Side Story – 1961), although her usefulness was short-lived. A few of the reasons to memorialize this grand lady; in addition to holding the trans-Atlantic speed record, she is the largest liner built entirely in the U.S., she was built to be virtually fireproof, with the only wood fitting being the butcher block in the galley, and she was the first liner to have air conditioning throughout.