One of the arguments used to cancel the proposed aircraft carrier United States was that same level of symbolism should the carrier be sunk. Or at least, so I was told when I was in the service.
One of the commenters imagined the headline: Chinese Owners Decide to Scrap the United States. Hilarious.
Same reason the Deutschland was renamed the Luetzow during WW2.
I deny any symbolism regarding the scrapping of a useless ocean liner, however – it’s pretty much useless as anything but scrap metal.
You would think with all the billions in stimulus that the Obama Administration gave out it could have given a million or so to the SS United States Conservancy to preserve the ship as a museum and monument to U.S. naval architecture. The Gibbs Brothers who designed her also designed the major of U.S. naval vessels built during World War II.
Also the article is incorrect. The asbestos was taken out in the early 1990’s when there was plans to convert the ship for cruise service to Hawaii. So there would be no need to clean it up.
Personally I think she would look grand sitting next to the USS Interpid in New York harbor as a museum/hotel ship.
> Personally I think she would look grand sitting next to
> the USS Interpid in New York harbor as a museum/hotel ship.
😉
Sounds good to me. The SS US was always one of my favorite liners. Very sad to see it just cut up for scrap.
Though I read they had striped most of the really good furnishing long ago. Which might make it hard to turn her nito a servicable liner or hotel?
One of the arguments used to cancel the proposed aircraft carrier United States was that same level of symbolism should the carrier be sunk. Or at least, so I was told when I was in the service.
One of the commenters imagined the headline: Chinese Owners Decide to Scrap the United States. Hilarious.
Same reason the Deutschland was renamed the Luetzow during WW2.
I deny any symbolism regarding the scrapping of a useless ocean liner, however – it’s pretty much useless as anything but scrap metal.
You would think with all the billions in stimulus that the Obama Administration gave out it could have given a million or so to the SS United States Conservancy to preserve the ship as a museum and monument to U.S. naval architecture. The Gibbs Brothers who designed her also designed the major of U.S. naval vessels built during World War II.
Also the article is incorrect. The asbestos was taken out in the early 1990’s when there was plans to convert the ship for cruise service to Hawaii. So there would be no need to clean it up.
Personally I think she would look grand sitting next to the USS Interpid in New York harbor as a museum/hotel ship.
> Personally I think she would look grand sitting next to
> the USS Interpid in New York harbor as a museum/hotel ship.
😉
Sounds good to me. The SS US was always one of my favorite liners. Very sad to see it just cut up for scrap.
Though I read they had striped most of the really good furnishing long ago. Which might make it hard to turn her nito a servicable liner or hotel?