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The hope of the conservancy was to have the ship refitted as a floating hotel in NYC. It's interior was gutted to remove asbestos and it's interior is now open for restoration or remodeling. There are several good videos about it on YouTube. Enough government money has been wasted through out the decades that it is an embarassment that this national treasure remains rusting in port in Philly. It is visible from I-95 and the Walt Whitman Bridge.

About its engineering: The engineering: What Made the SS United States SO Fast?

Video from the interior of the S.S. United States from the curator of the U.S.S. New Jersey, which is moored across the river in Camden, NJ:
First Class Accommodations on SS United States
Inside The Engine Room of the Fastest Passenger Liner on the Atlantic, SS United States

More about the ship here: S.S. United States
1 posted on 03/14/2024 4:15:07 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin
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To: Dr. Franklin

Fill it with illegals and send it to sea. Anyone know how many pound of live cargo it could hold?


2 posted on 03/14/2024 4:21:01 PM PDT by oldasrocks
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Pack it to the gills with ILLEGALS and cast off all lines.
3 posted on 03/14/2024 4:23:43 PM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Put illegals to work scraping and painting.

Also tax them for the dockage.


4 posted on 03/14/2024 4:36:01 PM PDT by Paladin2
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the ship is still structurally sound and can be towed elsewhere

Towed? So structurally sound but mechanically dubious?

5 posted on 03/14/2024 4:40:28 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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I only knew about this ship because I once ate in a restaurant in Nags Head N.C.,
furnished with a large collection of items from the ship, including the bar.

The restaurant, Windmill Point, closed years ago. The building was given to a local fire department. The collection was moved to a conservancy.

https://historyscout.blogspot.com/2016/06/return-to-windmill-point-of-nags-head.html?m=1


6 posted on 03/14/2024 4:53:38 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: Dr. Franklin

That don’t confront me what about the front ren?


9 posted on 03/14/2024 5:19:38 PM PDT by bigbob
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Drove by it today. shame. The brass screws i think used to be on the stern deck. They were huge. We would sail past it many times when we had our boat. I recall that they had to flood it partially to get it under the walt whitman bridge when they brought it in.


11 posted on 03/14/2024 5:56:02 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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This sounds like another iconic vessel meeting its end.
Kalakala went through this. An iconic futuristic ferry in the Pacific Northwest which met an untimely and embarassing end. Moneybags Bill Gates couldn’t be bothered.


16 posted on 03/15/2024 9:30:54 AM PDT by Senormechanico
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If it ain’t in the lease, you must release.....................


19 posted on 03/18/2024 5:28:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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