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Posted on 06/17/2024 2:59:26 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The SS United States, a historic ship that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago, must leave its berth on the Delaware River in Philadelphia by Sept. 12, a federal judge says.
The decision issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Anita Brody culminated a years-old rent dispute between the conservancy that oversees the 1,000-foot ocean liner and its landlord, Penn Warehousing. It stemmed from an August 2021 decision by Penn Warehousing to double the ship's daily dockage to $1,700, an increase the conservancy refused to accept.
When the conservancy continued to pay its previous rate, set in 2011, Penn Warehousing terminated the lease in March 2022. After much legal wrangling, Brody held a bench trial in January but also encouraged the two sides to reach a settlement instead of leaving it up to her.
The judge ultimately ruled that the conservancy’s failure to pay the new rate did not amount to a contract breach or entitle Penn Warehousing to damages. But she also ruled that under Pennsylvania contract law, the berthing agreement is terminable at will with reasonable notice, which Penn Warehousing had issued in March 2022.
“The judge’s decision gives us a very limited window to find a new home for the SS United States and raise the resources necessary to move the ship and keep her safe,” Susan Gibbs, conservancy president and granddaughter of the ship’s designer, told The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Besides finding a new home, the conservancy also must obtain funds for insurance, tugs, surveys and dock preparations for a move.
... said Craig Mills, an attorney for Penn Warehousing. “But after decades of decay and delay, it is time to acknowledge the unavoidable and return Pier 82 to productive commercial service.”
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Yes where are all the wealthy liberal grandstanders when we really need one?
From the article: “On that voyage, the ship crossed the Atlantic in three days, 10 hours and 40 minutes, besting the RMS Queen Mary’s time by 10 hours. To this day, the SS United States holds the transatlantic speed record for an ocean liner.”
But just wait until they make the EV version!
Pay the rent, or out you go. Before Covid, it was that way everywhere.
Oh, that is just another piece of Americana and therefore needs to be cancelled.
Need to scrap it. It’s not the Titanic. And it’s not “cool” like an aircraft carrier.
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Always have loved the SS US. Never sailed aboard her, but I built the Revell model when I was nine or ten, c. 1959.
We are forcing someone who does not want to pay for something to pay for it by making them continue to have a non-paying renter occupy something they could be making money from. That is theft. The judge is wrong for not forcing the renter to pay.
And, sorry. If no one wants to pay the freight, it’s just so much scrap metal. The owners are deadbeat renters.
I would have kept every car I ever owned if I could. But I wouldn’t force someone else to pay for storage. That’s criminal. Say someone buys a “historic building” to use the land for something else. Then, along comes the public and sues them to force them to keep the outdated, unusable building because it’s “historic.” If they felt so strongly, why didn’t they buy it with their own money? Again, using the courts to steal from someone.
So there’s no demand for it.
Used to be berthed in Norfolk, VA. Used to see it every time we came back from deployment. Impressive ship. The two stacks were very distinctive. We watched from our front yard in Hampton, VA in 1196 when she was being towed to Philly.
1996
Indeed. I used to see it all the time on the way home from Rolling Thunder.
Sad.
Move it to Martha’s Vineyard and get a contract to house illegals, with a floating Biden-pier to all the tenants access to the shopping areas in town. They can hang laundry between the distinctive stacks.
Don't give up hope; there's always the chance Ukraine might want it.
Yep, stared at it every quarterdeck watch at D & S piers in the 70’s.
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