Posted on 03/11/2009 1:45:45 PM PDT by americanophile
No, don’t scrap the SS United States. Tow her out to sea, cover her with an enormous Stars and Stripes and give her a decent burial at sea, like they did for the remains of the battleship USS Maine.
Too many noble old ships wound up under the scrapyards’ cutting torches. The SSUS is special, JMHO.
Save it. We can use the ship to take American leftists one-way to North Korea where they can live with a communist hero and eat tree bark.
It seems a shame to see her go, but all things come to an end. She served an honorable mission.
Sell it for 79 million worth of scrap to a US steel mill. At today’s prices and with union labor, it should make 100 million worth of new steel.
And, the demos and rinos would spend the 79 million on pork
as soon as it reached the treasury.
CV-67 not CVN.
opps, my bad. conventional, not nuke.
The SS United States, launched in 1952, set a speed record for westbound Atlantic crossings, averaging better than 35 knots an hour (or 41 mph). The record still stands. The ship was built in Newport News, Va., for $79 million, in 500 days. In addition to duties handling transatlantic passenger service, it was used in 1962 in the Cuban Missile Crisis and in 1982 to transport British troops to the Falkland Islands. It is on the National Register for Historic Places. With the advent of air travel, the ship fell into disuse, and has not been used commercially since 1969.Wow, WTH?!? Thanks rabscuttle385.
AfghanistanHeh... you optimist you. ;')
It averaged 32 Knots... Three and a half days NYC to Le Havre.Wow!
“Not true. The QE 2 was used as a transport. As it was, the US took great pains not to appear to be aiding Britain during the Falklands war. All our help was covert and backdoor stuff, especially satellite and communications intel.”
That is what I thought!Thank you.
Yes it has been there a long time they even auctioned everything off of it that could be moved as I am learning now.
You take me tooooooooooo seriously. I was just giving the current politically correct “stimulus” response.
The only thing I found was what Gondring sent you. Not much out there.
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