Posted on 03/11/2009 1:45:45 PM PDT by americanophile
Scrap metal prices (it was made back in the cheap days of asbestos insulation and lead paint!) ain't what they used to be.
Wait a little while. Prices will go up.
On the other hand, a recession drives DOWN labor cost and steel prices, and there are more people available to do the same work at lower prices. We can get cheap labor to scrape the hull, insides, and remove all that bad stuff overseas .....
Can you build something that big and fast for the cost of refurbishing?
The interiors have already been stripped, in the Ukraine I think.
Some columnist asked a while back -
will America survive the 0bama administration?
And my first thought was - “that sure depends on how you define “America””.
You are quite right! I’ve been there many times.
35 minutes of geographic latitude in one hour.
Given how deadly anti ship torps and missiles are today
I wouldn’t put thousands of souls on a target like that.
We were pretty lucky that the germans didn’t take out
one of the Queens during the last ww.
SS United States headed to junk pile...
Soon to be followed by the United States.
are there any photos of the interior woodwork? That be cool. The HMS Queen Mary had some beautiful carvings and stuff.
Maybe Pelosi can make it her personal ship to go with all those Air Force G5’s she uses.
Heck no. I’m still trying to figure out of theirs 20 million worth of good steel in it, LoL!
The speed is ok, but it’s way too long to be of any value as a navel vessel. Too heavy to turn as fast as a frigate can.
Unless you mean target practice.
Heck no. I’m still trying to figure out of theres 20 million worth of good steel in it, LoL!
The speed is ok, but it’s way too long to be of any value as a navel vessel. Too heavy to turn as fast as a frigate can.
Unless you mean target practice.
35 minutes of geographic latitude in one hour is “35 knots”, not “35 knots an hour”.
“35 knots an hour” is acceleration.
The Falklands claim is bogus. This boat was laid up before the Falklands War.
“We definitely need to require a certain percentage of trans-Atlantic travelers to travel on this vessel.”
Are you kuckin’ futs?
7 a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour, used of ships, aircraft, or winds.
ORIGIN Old English; sense 7 derives from the former practice of measuring a ship’s speed by using a float attached to a long knotted line.
On google maps, the SS United States
“SS United States, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19148”
was the only ship in the entire port.
Shows
(1) how little regarded Philly (and south NJ) is as port now
(2) how few ships are actually needed
(3) how few “regular” docks are used today with containerships carrying everything.
There are few “mothballed” landing ships and destroyers down in old naval yaed.
Knot a unit of speed equivalent to one nautical mile per hour, used of ships, aircraft, or winds.
The only wooden equipment on-board was the butcher blocks...and the fire-resistant piano, if you count that.
Perhaps there were later furnishings that were wooden, but it was originally designed to double as a troopship.
Not true. The QE 2 was used as a transport. As it was, the US took great pains not to appear to be aiding Britain during the Falklands war. All our help was covert and backdoor stuff, especially satellite and communications intel.
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