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Interesting article.

Slideshow here

1 posted on 10/06/2009 8:47:31 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
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To: GATOR NAVY

Bump, Thx.


2 posted on 10/06/2009 8:57:00 PM PDT by BGHater ("real price of every thing ... is the toil and trouble of acquiring it")
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To: GATOR NAVY

PBS had a good documentary a few years ago... seems like a worthwhile project to spend a few million stimulus dollars on before they are wasted elsewhere.

http://www.vimeo.com/674103


3 posted on 10/06/2009 8:59:54 PM PDT by OCC
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To: GATOR NAVY

this has been ongoing since the middle 1980s. they’ve never been able to pool enough investors to make it happen. considering the state of cruise ships now, i think there is no way they could ever make this happen. shame - she was a beautiful ship, but the world has changed.


4 posted on 10/06/2009 9:01:35 PM PDT by sig226 (Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

My brother sailed aboard the SS United States from France back to the US in 1969 or 1970. I would surprised if this ship ever went anywhere under its own power post 1970-71-72. Indeed, googling “last voyage SS united states” it was effectively abandoned in 1970.


5 posted on 10/06/2009 9:05:27 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (It's better to give a Ford to the Kidney Foundation than a kidney to the Ford Foundation.)
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To: GATOR NAVY

docked right in Philly, and impressive ship, it’s just wasting away


6 posted on 10/06/2009 9:14:58 PM PDT by NativeSon
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To: GATOR NAVY

Sarah Palin needs to get out and start raising not money but
RAISING HELL.

WE MUST HAVE THE HOUSE IN 2010.


8 posted on 10/06/2009 9:26:10 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: GATOR NAVY

How about this one about its rival in the 1950s and 1960s? Someone wants to restore the Queen Mary I in Long Beach CA to ocean going conditions.

Won’t happen since the estimated cost is $1.5 billion and the the QM1 will likely sink once the breakwater around her is removed.


9 posted on 10/06/2009 9:37:13 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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Rename her the S.S. Obama and then scrap her!
10 posted on 10/06/2009 9:41:35 PM PDT by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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was hopin’ I seee an underway pic... one can guesstimate a lot from the stern wash...


11 posted on 10/06/2009 9:41:35 PM PDT by sit-rep
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Let me guess that none of those people crying over it have raised a penny to buy it and make her seaworthy again?


15 posted on 10/06/2009 10:01:13 PM PDT by GeronL
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Shades of CV-6?

The Fate of the Enterprise

35 posted on 10/07/2009 7:57:34 AM PDT by Philip_the_evangelist
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