Very interesting — thanks. It’s too bad they had strip out the interior walls for asbestos removal. It’s mostly just the metal frame now without much of its original character. But, as the project leader for the conservancy says, that makes it kind of a blank canvas, and as such they’re looking for a visionary investor to do a total renovation. She contrasts this with the Queen Mary, another one of the handful of surviving ocean liners of the era, whose original appointments were all intact making a historical restoration the natural approach. It would be great to see them succeed in getting the SS United States reworked in grand fashion and back on the seas again.
Last week i found a 4 hour video tour of this ship from 1991.
Filmed after the auction but before she was gutted.
The interior is still intact.
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx9nfj_WHRQ
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tl8OkIY4tU
I have always been a big fan of this liner and found the video pretty fascinating.