Posted on 02/19/2025 7:17:08 AM PST by Ezekiel
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's moving day for the SS United States as the historic ocean liner prepares to ship out on Wednesday.
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Here's the plan and timing
Tugboats are expected to get in position around 10 a.m. or 11 a.m. Then, it will begin its voyage down the Delaware River just before 1 p.m., during low tide.
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Last week, the first phase of the move took place as the city was celebrating the Eagles victory parade.
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Fans of the derelict ship were out early on Wednesday to get a last look before it heads towards its underwater grave off the coast of Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
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A grand lady of the seas.
My mom and dad sailed on it in late 1952 after they got married. I have an original SS United States post card they sent to my grandparents.
A long trip through the Gulf of America.
It is good to see that it will be used as an artificial reef for divers. I would not have minded seeing it turned into a museum/restaurant/hotel like what was done with the Queen Mary in Long Beach (went there last year and enjoyed doing so).
I’ve driven by this ship a number of times.
Always makes me think of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes.”
A relic from a disappeared era
She’s headed to my area. I hope her scuttling will be respectful.
Too much time has passed for the SS United States to be converted. It is now over seventy years old! The useful life of an ocean going ship is 20-30 years.
I worked with a radio officer who was part of a group that wanted to keep the United States running as a cruise ship and selling the cabins as condos. This was in the early 1980’s. The project never got off the ground.
My family took the SS United States from NYC to Bremerhaven Germany when my dad was transferred from Ft Ord California to Landstuhl Germany in 1964. Fun times.
No complaining from the Enviro-Weenies about sinking a ship to the bottom of their beloved ocean? You’d think they’d be screaming and hanging from the chandeliers over this.
It’s a great fundraising/grifting opportunity! ;)
I guess in some instances it helps the "environment" by allowing organisms to grow on it creating a reef like structure.
What would her value be had she been built pre-atomic era?
the queen mary aggregate experience probably will scare anyone from trying to convert an old commercial liner on this scale for a long, long time.
Unlike buildings, liners aren’t made to last. Trying to convert one to provide an economic function can only work if there is unlimited money to run losses.
Military ships provide a counter-point. The largest I know of is the texas, launched over a century ago - but look into the cost and financing of the drydocking the last year or so.
With all of the trillions of dollars wasted by the federal government on all kinds of garbage, it’s a sin that this engineering marvel won’t be saved for posterity.
I don't know, but your reply is mixed into my pings and posts from
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WHY AT LOW TIDE?????
WHAT IS THE DRAFT ON THE VESSEL???
Besides the live cam, there’s a < 3 min video on the news link that shows her arrival into Philly 30 years ago. In it is a short clip of her clearing a bridge — by a couple of inches, looks like.
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