>>2004264Well the United States' sister ship, America, was dry-docked for the final time, they found the hull was still in excellent condition despite over a decade of abuse. This led to a plan to sell it to the island of Phuket where it would be redeveloped into a five-star hotel. The problem was that the ship had been laying derelict in Greece and was prohibited from traversing the Suez Canal due to its not being able to move under its own power and not being up to then-current maritime fire codes. So they contracted a Ukrainian tugboat to tow it around the Cape of Good Hope to Thailand for refitting. They got as far as the Canary Islands and then they ran into a storm that snapped the towline and the ship wound up on Fuerteventura and it broke in two and remains today.
I'm kinda surprised that SS United States Conservancy didn't offer their ship to the developers as a replacement for the America. It has almost identical dimensions and the hull was in even better shape owing to it's being a decade younger and not having been nearly as badly neglected by its various owners.
