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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 Then, along comes the public and sues them to force them to keep the outdated, unusable building because it’s “historic.”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.
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.
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.
if a new location can’t be found and developed soon enough, open the sea valves and let Penn Warehousing deal with it ...
It should go to the scrappers. It was obsolete before its keel was laid.
They ought to preserve it but apparently few care. I applaud Susan Gibbs for giving it her all in memory of her grandfather, the great naval architect William Francis Gibbs. My grandfather knew him.
This time it's not so 'bon' a voyage.
All ships die, including great ships. Scrap it.
My dad sailed on it when he was a teenager to Europe. I have the ashtray from that ship he gave me.
Is that the same SS United States that Joe Biden drove, singlehandedly across the Atlantic and back in a weekend?
It must be saved!
My dad was stationed at RAF Mildenhall from June 1964-1967. He was Admiral McCain plane captain for the last two years.
We came back to the States on the USS United States. For a 14 year-old, it was pretty awesome.