Posted on 03/02/2025 10:43:09 AM PST by Ezekiel
MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - Officials say the S.S. United States is expected to dock in Mobile about noon.
Here is a portion of a release from myokaloosa.com
Media Advisory: SS United States Arrival in Mobile
Mobile, Alabama – The SS United States is expected to begin her journey into the Mobile Bay about 6 a.m. on Monday, March 3, 2025. From there, she will make her way to the docks at Modern American Recycling Services (MARS) located at 601 South Royal Street, Mobile, AL 36603 with an expected arrival at 12 p.m. (This time will fluctuate depending on multiple factors. Be prepared for earlier or later arrival)
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Yeah, the bell, wheel, name plates, life rings, flag mast, etc. belong in a maritime museum somewhere. The rest of it should be salvaged or scrapped.
Since the ship was built after the nuclear testing around the world, the steel is irradiated enough that it can't be used in the manufacture of radiation testing equipment.
“So you would get to see the top of the ship only. Maybe it still can be saved if someone can find a wharf.”
Aside from being a recreational diver I’m also engineer and a journeyman shipwright.
You can’t just let boats sit at the dock.
They deteriorate. They will sink at the dock!
I was just lamenting the depth they chose to sink it.
All recreational divers are taught not to go inside a sunk craft, that is for professionals only. Probably why they chose that depth to sink the ship in. Recreational divers won’t go that deep.
However it is fun to swim around a shallow reef.
and some people might be tempted!
Effing lawyers!
bttt
“The SS United States is being towed to Mobile, Alabama, as part of a plan to transform it into the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida’s Gulf Coast.”
That’s the plan, anyway. Zoom in to the red flag, because it will swap itself to a sat view:
https://share.garmin.com/SSUNITEDSTATES
Let’s see how it goes once she is moored directly across from the hospital ship Comfort, so much in need of a healing. (For “some reason” the USS Comfort is still hanging around — work was expected to be finished on Jan 3rd.)
True heading 268°
Re: SS United States —
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The USNS Comfort was built at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. under her original name the S.S. Rose City (MA-301). The Rose City was one of the first San Clemente Class Tankers built, many called them the “super tankers”. The Rose City keel plates were laid down on May 1975, and she was ready for service in 1976. USNS Mercy was originally the SS Worth, launched in 1976.
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Initially, planners studied the possibility of acquiring and converting the luxury liner SS United States to a hospital ship, but concluded the ship would not be adequate. Then the Navy approached the US shipbuilding industry, outlined its requirements for a hospital ship, including number of beds, surgical and laboratory facilities and overall space requirements, and solicited proposals.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/tah-19-history.htm
In related news, the satellite view “just so happened” to capture that parking lot project when the prepped ground looked like a lead coffin.
I noticed that because it’s all part of the running analog to the midrash about Joseph’s lead casket being pulled out of De Nile.
The time has come:
I can well afford to look like an OCD nutcase with all of my odd posts filled with seemingly unimportant details, but that’s because they are on average, oh say about 20 moves behind where I’m at in real time. 😉
“Modern American Recycling Services (MARS)”
That’s where I worked until I retired. Actually I got pissed off and quit. I worked at that facility for 20 years through 4 different owners. It was a shipyard until MARS bought it and turned it into more of a scrapyard and then sold most of it to Austal.
It’s stuck outside of Mobile with those Memphis blues again.
” If enough people wanted to save this ship, it would be saved.”
Kind of like the Queen Mary in Long beach CA?
Make a business case for it and someone will do it.
Don’t mind me (😬), I just wanted to finish my train of thought from the earlier post.
>>>the satellite view “just so happened” to capture that parking lot project when the prepped ground looked like a lead coffin. I noticed that because it’s all part of the running analog to the midrash about Joseph’s lead casket being pulled out of De Nile.<<<
On that Chabad link for the coffin narratives:
The Two Arks in the Desert
The Talmud continues to tell us that as the People of Israel traveled in the desert, Joseph’s coffin was right alongside the Ark of the Covenant. People would wonder about the strange association, and others would answer that it was appropriate because “this one [Joseph] fulfilled all that is written in this one [the Ark, which contains the Torah].”
The lead coffin parking lot, right alongside the hull (גוף guf, body) of the United States. M.A.R.S. — be there or be square:
Back in my posting history is the detail that the name “United States” — on account of it being her actual name (how one is called, the sound thereof) — is transliterated into Hebrew:
יונייטד סטייטס
= 257 =
aron ארון (ark, as in the Ark of the Covenant, and also Joseph’s coffin)
I’d further remarked that in a normal pattern for creating Hebrew acronyms, the one for the United States (the nation) is ארה”ב, short for artzot ha-brit אַרצוֹת הַבְּרִית, lit. lands of the covenant.
Therefore, suppose an acronym were to be formed for/from the Ark of the Covenant — aron ha-brit, אֲרוֹן הַבּרִית — it would be the same: ארה”ב
But of course, if that happened people would see ארה”ב and see.. the United States.
Just sayin’
“And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea..” 🍿🙃🍿
Thank you very much for your personal on-the-ground knowledge.
I’d noticed in the owner changes and name evolutions, MARRS lost an R. It was a tad strange because the present map label and news articles refer to the place as MARRS, when there’s no MARRS on their website.
The most current street view is from 2019, where MARRS is the name on the building, having replaced the names of the previous owners in the viewing history.
The lost R was obviously the R for “repair”.
And then I’d found these, news timing immediately following the inauguration “steel”:
JANUARY 23, 2019 — Modern American Recycling Services, Inc. (M.A.R.S.), a leader in the scrap recycling industry, reports that it completed a transaction acquiring World Marine, LLC on January 22, 2019.
For Mobile, the sale means — according to MARS — that the location will continue to operate as a full-service shipyard, with additional recycling services. It will be known as Modern American Recycling and Repair Services, or MARRS.
MARS, based in Louisiana, was established in 1971 and describes itself as “the largest barge dismantler in the United States,” scrapping an average of 1,200 barges per year. It also dismantles ships as well as drilling rigs and platforms.
RSA sells Mobile shipyard; new owner to add recycling
Updated: Jan. 28, 2019, 2:59 p.m.|Published: Jan. 28, 2019, 2:54 p.m.
https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2019/01/rsa-sells-mobile-shipyard-new-owner-to-add-recycling.html
Ooops, sorry about the inauguration timing error.
That one went with some other related data point I’ve got around here somewhere. 🤪
Repairing Battleship USS Texas and Cruiser USS Olympia would be better use of scarce funds.
I also wonder how often divers get foul hooked around these sort of structures?
Sing Me Back Home* meets Sweet Home Alabama:
"Here's one for all the ex-convicts in the house"
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Mobile County Sheriff's Department (That's the street view across from the red flag pin on the tracker: "Inmate work crew")
510 S Royal St, Mobile, AL 36603
Big wheels keep on turnin'
Carry me home to see my kin
Singin' songs about the Southland
I miss Alabamy once again, and I think it's a sin, I said
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Sweet home Alabama
Where the skies are so blue
Sweet home Alabama
Lord, I'm comin' home to you
*"Rose City": Last of the Breed - Live in Concert, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont, Illinois, March 25, 2007
This stuff shouldn’t be floating or sunk, it’s garbage that won’t decompose in our lifetime or great grandkids lifetime. Grind it up, add concrete and make prisons out of it to house, some people.
My dad was stationed with the U.S. Navy at RAF Mildenhall from 1964-1967.
We returned to the States on the SS United States, landing in New York City in the summer of 1967.
My dad was the plane captain for Admiral John McCain’s (John McCain’s father). Probably had something to do with getting to come back to the states on the SS United States.
What’s Going on With Shipping? Update On the Final Voyage of SS United States | Tow by Vinik 6 | Off the East Coast of Florida
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yel57ljzVas
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