[americanophile]

Fastest liner in the world.

[Crazieman]

Interesting metaphor

[GreyFriar]

We definitely need to require a certain percentage of trans-Atlantic travelers to travel on this vessel. Or to use it as a troop transport to send our soldiers back and forth to posts in Germany, Iraq and Afghanistan.

[rabscuttle385]

ping

[Bahbah]

I sailed to Europe on her in 1968.

[steve86]

Definitely though it was a Social Security thread about which the title is true also.

[OB1kNOb]

Ironic coincidence?

[JZelle]

You always go to Windmill Point restaurant in Nags Head, N.C. Some of the furniture and other items from the ship has adorned it for years. I always thought that was all there was to it until I saw your post. Interesting.

[swain_forkbeard]

“...35 knots an hour.”

I hate stuff like that.

[Grut]

It was never more than a footnote to the Age of Liners, though: it came along too late to establish a mystique.

[RetroSexual]

She’d make a nice presidential yacht. Maybe a little small for the current chief executive’s taste, but times are tough.

[Nathan Zachary]

Scrap the bugger. No way should Twice it's original cost (face it, these things NEVER come in on budget) be sucked out of the taxpayers pockets, just so it can be a museum piece.

And who knows, Obama might take it for his own private yacht.

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.

[Cheetahcat]

I heard there was a lot of Aluminum used in the construction of the superstructure on that ship. I never heard the Falklands thing before the QE2 was used I think.

[San Jacinto]

A last hope may be redirecting some of the $782 billion in federal stimulus funding — perhaps money earmarked for infrastructure.

Oink! Oink! I worked for the money the government takes away from me, and I could give a rat'sass about their stinking ship.

[bill1952]

What, hussein can't fund this? you know, all the new jobs created by restoring her and then maintaining her forever...

SS United States headed to junk pile...

Soon to be followed by the United States.

[Eye of Unk]

I think this ship should be saved, its nearly in the same class as the USS Constitution.

[Al B.]

Sad ping...

Poppa took me on a tour of that ship right after you were born in 1952, before it was delivered. I thought it was the most beautiful ship I'd ever seen. Wish it could be saved.

A fast, fast ship....44 knot top speed and could do 20 knots in reverse, as shown below on its sea trials.

[OldEagle]

We went to France in November 1964 on this ship. It averaged 32 Knots. They made the speed at night. It was rough sleeping, even for me. The screws were out of the water about half the time. Three and a half days NYC to Le Havre.

[Plutarch]

Ships have to earn their keep, otherwise, it is off to the scrapyard. Thus it has always been.

[Bean Counter]

Let’s see a show of hands:

How many Navy Vets here attended Fire Fighting School in Norfolk Va under the shadow of the SS United States?? How many times??

I’ve lost count myself...

[OpeEdMunkey]

I’ll be honest. I didn’t know any of this.

Still I don’t see it. Not in the condition that we are in financially.