“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. 😉
It’s stuck outside of Mobile with those Memphis blues again.
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..” 🍿🙃🍿