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Marine Survey Warns Queen Mary Is Falling Apart, Desperately Needs Repairs Or Could Sink
cbs2la ^ | 03/13/2017

Posted on 03/14/2017 8:35:12 AM PDT by BenLurkin

....the city has designated $23 million for urgent repairs, and a plan to build entertainment around the ship would generate the tens of millions of dollars needed to do more repairs.

“We know what we’re going to deal with, and we know our partner, Urban Commons, who’s going to be sharing in this investment with the city over the next 66 years that they said: ‘we’re in’,” Keisler added.

Urban Commons sent a statement saying: “Our team is already in full swing making critical structural renovations and repairs to ensure the Queen Mary is well equipped for the next 80 years, and we will continue to identify and address the most pressing items using the marine survey as a roadmap.”

The repairs are expected to cost at least $230 million.

The Queen Mary was built in the 1930s in Clydebank, Scotland. Long Beach purchased the ocean liner almost 50 years ago after it was retired.

The ship is now a floating hotel, tourist attraction and an event venue.

(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: longbeach; queenmary; queenmaryhotel; rustbucket
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To: BenLurkin

They still hold many events there.


21 posted on 03/14/2017 9:35:07 AM PDT by Melian (America, bless God. God, bless America.)
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To: BenLurkin

Beautiful ship like so many others but we can’t keep every piece of huge machinery, relic and symbol from the past.

Collecting old ships is not an insignificant financial burden. Take a picture, it will last longer.


22 posted on 03/14/2017 9:37:23 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: BenLurkin
Steel floating in saltwater is not the best foundation to build a hotel on for any length of time
23 posted on 03/14/2017 9:40:39 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: BenLurkin

A group of HAM operators use to fire up the radio room occasionally. I got to make a contact once.


24 posted on 03/14/2017 9:42:54 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Fidel and Che are together again, and it ain't on a t-shirt.)
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To: BenLurkin

230 million dollars to repair a rusting 83 year old ship.
What could you built new for $230 million dollars.
I am sure private investors will bear all of risk and of course benefit with all the gains if the project succeeds.
No? Maybe the taxpayers bear all of the risk and others receive the benefits.


25 posted on 03/14/2017 9:49:28 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: BenLurkin

The world’s oldest sailing ship, the iron hulled Star of India, is in San Diego. It was built in 1863 and it could still sail around the world today.


26 posted on 03/14/2017 9:49:44 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: BenLurkin; EveningStar

My daughter is getting married there next month. Hope it stays afloat till then! :)


27 posted on 03/14/2017 9:57:49 AM PDT by Shark24
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To: alloysteel

it would be one thing if it were named after an american, but ‘ queen mary’?


28 posted on 03/14/2017 10:07:48 AM PDT by exnavy (Hit hard, fast, and first. No prisoners.)
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To: butlerweave
I thought the ship was set in concrete

When I first reported aboard my ship (USN, 1961-64) I was informed that she was welded to the pier and mired in her own coffee grounds. Six weeks later we were underway. Moved a mile up river to another pier.

29 posted on 03/14/2017 10:09:26 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: exnavy

“it would be one thing if it were named after an american, but ‘ queen mary’?”

The London Bridge has been relocated to the Colorado River, too.


30 posted on 03/14/2017 10:11:39 AM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: EveningStar

Simple fix start pumping concrete into the breakwater then when its cured fill the area in around the hull with it till it reaches the waterline on the ship


31 posted on 03/14/2017 10:26:51 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Its a Joke friends)
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To: BenLurkin

A boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money.


32 posted on 03/14/2017 10:32:33 AM PDT by pa_dweller (President Donald Trump, President Donald Trump. Because I know you like seeing it.)
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To: BenLurkin

A buddy of mine was part of a maritime survey party 20+ years ago on the Queen Mary. He said once they got far into the ship deep below the waterline, they became so worried that they got off asap.

He said they were commissioned to see if the QM could be moved to the shipyard dry dock for a overhaul. I believe their ultimate recommendation was to let her settle in the mud in such a way she didn’t lean too much.


33 posted on 03/14/2017 10:32:54 AM PDT by vooch
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To: alloysteel

“Art Deco is so yesterday.”

Says you! I’d like to build a brand new house in deco and furnished the same way. Coolest style ever.


34 posted on 03/14/2017 10:34:54 AM PDT by beelzepug (Anybody I attack may rest assured it's personal!)
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To: Zathras

They could blow her up for an amazing movie.

But seriously. I used to live across the street. So yeah, I’d miss her. My kids go to the Halloween scary event every year. LBC wouldn’t look the same without her.


35 posted on 03/14/2017 11:05:47 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: BenLurkin
The children of Alabama bought themselves a Battleship.
36 posted on 03/14/2017 11:38:42 AM PDT by blam
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To: Shark24

Wonderful, congrats!


37 posted on 03/14/2017 12:32:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: forgotten man; All
The world’s oldest sailing ship, the iron hulled Star of India, is in San Diego. It was built in 1863 and it could still sail around the world today.

I love the Star of India! Used to visit it often at it's home near the Broadway pier downtown San Diego, when I was a young second-class petty officer!
38 posted on 03/14/2017 1:17:08 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m surprised there hasn’t been ‘round the clock maintenance. To see the peeling paint and rust is troubling.. I’m sure there has been plenty of money for maintaining it and yet just as sure it was spent elsewhere.. They can get the “ resident ghosts” to work a little harder, I guess.


39 posted on 03/14/2017 3:04:59 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: truth_seeker

Havasu City, Arizona.


40 posted on 03/14/2017 3:26:59 PM PDT by exnavy (Hit hard, fast, and first. No prisoners.)
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