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Anonymous Fri 30 Aug 2024 18:14:46 No.2015994 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>2017926 >>2018374 >>2018428 >>2018523 >>2018653 >>2034004 >>2035048 >>2035196 >>2050527

SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 09:27:56 No.2016128 Report

Quoted By: >>2016129 >>2016147

Second-largest is also in Florida

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Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 09:29:04 No.2016129 Report

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>>2016128
and so is the third-largest

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 10:02:02 No.2016134 Report

Quoted By: >>2016144 >>2017902

How many threads do we need about this shitbox
>>2003628
>>2011826

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Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 11:35:23 No.2016144 Report

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>>2016134
Ordinarily I would agree with you but I currently have about 20 threads hidden that are just /pol/ spam that has nothing to do with transportation, at least this is a passenger vessel and not a press release from the office of Stephen M. Ross, so bump just 4 u :-)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 11:59:30 No.2016147 Report

Quoted By: >>2016218 >>2016241 >>2044041

>>2016128
Is that Admiral Kuznetsov?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 20:14:13 No.2016218 Report

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>>2016147
nah that would be the best she'd ever looked then

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 31 Aug 2024 22:52:32 No.2016241 Report

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>>2016147
USS Oriskany. The other is USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a satellite tracking ship

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2024 09:26:52 No.2017902 Report

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>>2016134
You're right. Let's talk urban planning. Ooopsie, sorry for the bump fagnuts!

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2024 13:18:02 No.2017922 Report

Quoted By: >>2017974

I hope they sink it at a low depth, would make a baller dive location at ~30 meters

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2024 14:14:36 No.2017926 Report

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>>2015994
One of the goats for sure, straight fire way to go out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2024 17:42:28 No.2017974 Report

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>>2017922
barrier reefs are fairly shallow, is that a factor in why they make good habitats? If so they might be obligated to

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2024 09:16:27 No.2018337 Report

Quoted By: >>2018340 >>2040358 >>2050689

The Florida fish & wildlife page on the Oriskany has a diagram showing they sank it to provide 80 feet (25 meters) clearance over the tallest point of the ship.
That puts the bridge at about 45 meters and most of the main deck at 55 meters

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2024 10:37:36 No.2018340 Report

Quoted By: >>2040380

>>2018337
That's a little deep for recreational divers.

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Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2024 18:16:09 No.2018374 Report

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>>2015994
>buying a literal last-of-its-kind ocean liner so you can sink it

I fucking hate Floridians so much...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Sep 2024 19:09:52 No.2018378 Report

Quoted By: >>2018469

>>2018374
And do what with it, exactly?

Probsol

Probsol Fri 13 Sep 2024 23:14:50 No.2018428 Report

Quoted By: >>2018458

>>2015994
Talk about peak metaphor with that name....if Muskie cared about anything that mattered (efficient travel) he'd wrote a check and save this biddie.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Sep 2024 06:27:01 No.2018458 Report

Quoted By: >>2018494

>>2018428
>efficient travel

Cruise ships are just a means to get drunk and gamble just a massive waste

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Sep 2024 07:52:27 No.2018469 Report

Quoted By: >>2018470 >>2034832

>>2018378
>buy decrepit ocean liner
>pour 100s of millions of dollars into it
>???
>profit

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Sep 2024 08:06:42 No.2018470 Report

Quoted By: >>2018630

>>2018469
>payback period
never

Probsol

Probsol Sat 14 Sep 2024 12:44:15 No.2018494 Report

Quoted By: >>2021031 >>2057183

>>2018458
It's 60 times more efficient per ton, than even a train.....slow is efficient just not per time, and faster times are just low character enabling horseshit. Slower travel makes people more deliberate/intentional. I've never been on a commerical flight. Don't tell me you prefer that cattle car to playing shuffleboard and fresh air even if it takes a day to get to the same place.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 14 Sep 2024 14:27:02 No.2018523 Report

Quoted By: >>2018606

>>2015994
>SS United States to be sunk, creating the world's largest artificial reef. RIP to one of the greats

You guys are so negative this is going to be awesome. Fort Walton Beach is the middle of the redneck riviera. It'll be beautiful. You'll be able to dive down at a fairly reasonable depth and see fish and sealife around this classic beauty. People will pay to dive and help the economy. And companies will bring those little tourist mini-subs down to view the fish and boat for the old people- a very /n/ thing.

Plus it's the USS United States. It's not seeing it's end being stripped for parts in South India like most scrapped ships. It's going to be a tourist attraction and provide natural barrier.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Sep 2024 03:26:42 No.2018606 Report

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>>2018523
It'll probably be a technically advanced dive to see it. I don't know if they'll require 80 feet like the Oriskany, but it also needs to be deep enough so storm and wave action don't disturb it.

It's not the USS United States, btw, just SS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Sep 2024 13:49:26 No.2018630 Report

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>>2018470
That was clearly a joke dumbass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Sep 2024 18:57:18 No.2018653 Report

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>>2015994
I'm going to miss seeing that thing out of the food court at the south philly IKEA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 05 Oct 2024 12:51:55 No.2020904 Report

Quoted By: >>2020981

Did it sink?

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Anonymous Sun 06 Oct 2024 04:39:51 No.2020981 Report

Quoted By: >>2021010

>>2020904
The owners are still trying to avoid selling it to one or another Florida counties who want to sink it. Even if it's sold tomorrow, it'll need about a year of cleaning and prep work for the actual sinking.

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Anonymous Sun 06 Oct 2024 13:10:20 No.2021010 Report

Quoted By: >>2021986

>>2020981
>The owners are still trying to avoid selling it
I read up about the ship a bit and I still don't know what they want to do with the ship. The only reason they seem to be so against it is the name.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 06 Oct 2024 15:53:04 No.2021031 Report

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>>2018494
Anon im pretty sure to get that '60 times more efficient' number youre quoting, passengers would have to be loaded like they did african slaves; theres no way a carnival cruise ship is utilizing anywhere near its capacity enough to even bring it to energy-efficiency parity with a commercial airliner.

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Anonymous Mon 14 Oct 2024 08:10:40 No.2021986 Report

Quoted By: >>2023123

>>2021010
The same objections happened when the Navy wanted to sink the USS America aircraft carrier.

Meanwhile, Okaloosa county now has title to the SS United States. They need a judge to approve the transfer, but expect to get that. The ship could move to Florida as soon as the end of October.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 25 Oct 2024 09:31:31 No.2023123 Report

Quoted By: >>2023175

>>2021986
update:
The new ownership has scheduled the vessel’s departure from Philadelphia for this Friday, October 25th. Contractors have been conducting preparatory work to facilitate the ship’s relocation to Norfolk, Virginia, such as removing her anchors, where it will undergo conversion into an artificial reef.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Oct 2024 09:09:02 No.2023175 Report

Quoted By: >>2024239

>>2023123
update again:
"Due to the amount of space and availability (only 2 to 4 months) in Norfolk, Virginia, Okaloosa County has decided to move the SS United States to a dock in Mobile, Alabama, that has recently become available”
No date set for the tow.

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Anonymous Mon 28 Oct 2024 18:43:27 No.2023445 Report

Quoted By: >>2027827

Odds the hull rips apart when they start towing it and it sinks in the Delaware River?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Nov 2024 04:51:35 No.2024239 Report

Quoted By: >>2024240 >>2024875

>>2023175
update:
The ship will start moving on November 14, taking two days to get into Delaware Bay with the right tides. Then about a two-week tow to Mobile.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Nov 2024 04:52:36 No.2024240 Report

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>>2024239
track it at https://www.destinfwb.com/explore/eco-tourism/ssus/

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Nov 2024 04:24:14 No.2024875 Report

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>>2024239
update yet again:
for unexplained reasons, but partly related to the tropical storm starting to form in the Gulf of Mexico, the tow is delayed. New date not set.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 13 Nov 2024 22:33:00 No.2024947 Report

Quoted By: >>2024948

Sinking the United States is such an apt metaphor. Its all going down man.

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Anonymous Wed 13 Nov 2024 22:38:41 No.2024948 Report

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>>2024947
>Its all going down man.
10 generations is all you get before the slow collapse.

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Anonymous Tue 19 Nov 2024 07:00:37 No.2025634 Report

Quoted By: >>2027298

Article listing the cost of each of the rebuild proposals over time, and showing how the value of the ship has fallen and how little the preservation society has taken in compared to all that
https://www.inquirer.com/news/ss-united-states-costs-philadelphia-20241117.html

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Anonymous Fri 22 Nov 2024 17:31:45 No.2026040 Report

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>not recycled
All that steel sunk. What a waste.

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Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 20:30:52 No.2027297 Report

Quoted By: >>2027569 >>2030367

shit is still laid up in philly
now the coast guard is saying the thing is too old and fragile to move safely
starting next week the dock owner is charging $100k a week penalty fee

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 Dec 2024 20:55:20 No.2027298 Report

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>>2025634
I don't believe I'd try to take any sort of credit for that abortion of a graph. Let alone call myself an artist.

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Anonymous Wed 11 Dec 2024 09:09:35 No.2027569 Report

Quoted By: >>2027782

>>2027297
maybe the only way to get the US out of Philly will be to put her on one of those heavy-lift transport ships. The US's weight must be less than the in-service amount of 53000 tonnes, which is within heavy-lift ability. It'll just cost more.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Dec 2024 05:28:36 No.2027743 Report

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Okaloosa paid the $100k late fee (appears to be a one-time thing) and are working with Pier 82 are to extend the docking lease through January, at a rate of $3400/day.
Coast Guard requiring a seaworthiness inspection be completed before departure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 13 Dec 2024 17:42:54 No.2027782 Report

Quoted By: >>2027827

>>2027569
Pretty badass, is that basically an ambulatory drydock?

I'm not a boat-type autist, but I have to say, this whole thing really has the flavor of a middle-aged hillbilly's financially catastrophic classic car project he's had since he was 23. When what started out as brake job and head gasket has somehow advanced to ordering custom-engineered castings from Germany and there's no end in sight. Now he's paying for a cross-country trailer haul for 25x the car's value, "it'll all be worth it when it runs (never,)" and meanwhile his marriage is being reduced to an absolute hash

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Anonymous Sat 14 Dec 2024 07:20:39 No.2027827 Report

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>>2027782
it is just like that. There are a lot of different types, but I picked the Vanguard because it's open-ended so I didn't have to check against the length of the US.

I'm wondering if >>2023445 is going to be right, and it starts to fall apart underway

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 15 Dec 2024 19:59:15 No.2027986 Report

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>artificial reef
What a waste of precious steel.

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Anonymous Tue 17 Dec 2024 02:54:13 No.2028091 Report

Quoted By: >>2028269

ruh roh

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 Dec 2024 20:03:16 No.2028269 Report

Quoted By: >>2028318

>>2028091
It sounds like they ordered the additional testing because the ship is incapable of self-propulsion and they want to make sure it'll make the trip. Surely this is something they anticipated, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Dec 2024 07:01:45 No.2028318 Report

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>>2028269
https://www.nwfdailynews.com/story/news/local/2024/12/19/commissioners-in-okaloosa-county-florida-reflect-on-ss-united-states/77055937007/

Okaloosa has $9 million set aside for transportation and environmental services needed before the ship can be sunk.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Jan 2025 06:07:57 No.2030367 Report

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>>2027297
Damn I knew it was in bad shape but I didn't realize it was that bad.
They should probably just tear it down, though at this point I wonder if you could even recover anything useful from it, at least to offset the cost of the teardown.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 20 Jan 2025 01:03:16 No.2031287 Report

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On Friday, Okaloosa County told CNN it had hired a “naval architect/engineer to conduct stability tests which are now complete.”

The tests were accepted by the Coast Guard on January 8, and the next steps include establishing a “tow plan,” while factoring in tidal conditions.

The Coast Guard told CNN this week that “positive progress has been made” toward getting her ready to move.

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Anonymous Thu 06 Feb 2025 06:31:31 No.2033215 Report

Quoted By: >>2033266

It's finally going to move!
Shifting to another pier Thursday morning and then the tow to Mobile starts Saturday morning at 3:30 am to catch the low tide at 4:30 am.
There's links viewing info at https://www.phillyvoice.com/ss-united-states-philadelphia-departure-date-artificial-reef-florida/

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 06 Feb 2025 23:07:04 No.2033266 Report

Quoted By: >>2033415

>>2033215

>UPDATE: The SS United States' shift from Pier 82 to Pier 80 in South Philadelphia has been pushed back to 8:21 p.m. Thursday, at the second high tide of the day, Okaloosa County officials announced. The U.S. Coast Guard requested the time change due to a "combination of factors." Saturday's departure from Philadelphia remains on schedule, but is "dependent on visibility," authorities said.

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Anonymous Sat 08 Feb 2025 10:04:19 No.2033415 Report

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>>2033266
"Plans to move the SS United States from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Mobile, Alabama, have been delayed due to follow-up details requested by the U.S. Coast Guard to ensure a proper tow from Pier 82 to Pier 80," Okaloosa County wrote.

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Anonymous Sun 09 Feb 2025 05:47:48 No.2033493 Report

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>It's finally going to move!

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Anonymous Thu 13 Feb 2025 07:14:26 No.2033828 Report

Quoted By: >>2033891 >>2033892

Great, the NYC doofus group is at it again. They want Trump to buy the ship off of Okaloosa via eminent domain and keep it in Brooklyn. Such a historic connection and, they warn, it'll prevent all that ALUMINUM from OXIDIZING! That dangerous ALUMINUM OXIDE has never ever been put into the ocean before, no sir!

Why is it always last-minute with these people?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Feb 2025 01:18:17 No.2033891 Report

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>>2033828
>SSUS

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Anonymous Fri 14 Feb 2025 01:24:56 No.2033892 Report

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>>2033828
To be honest the United States sinking in 2025 would be absolute pottery.
I am sure they will do everything so that ship can sink this year to get another oh SO sweet symbolism they crave so much

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 14 Feb 2025 06:45:26 No.2033900 Report

Quoted By: >>2034008

Departure is back on for February 17 at 11 am!

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 14:15:48 No.2034004 Report

Quoted By: >>2034008

>>2015994
They finally moved her (30ft from one pier to another)!

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 14:51:44 No.2034008 Report

Quoted By: >>2034010

>>2033900
>>2034004
Any pictures of the pier or where she stands now?

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Anonymous Sat 15 Feb 2025 15:45:55 No.2034010 Report

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>>2034008
It's just on the other side of the slip. The Battleship New Jersey staff had a pretty good angle and posted it on youtube

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Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2025 10:28:04 No.2034397 Report

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Weather delay to Wednesday 2/19 at 12:51 for movement.

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Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2025 23:05:50 No.2034447 Report

Quoted By: >>2034448 >>2034465

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Anonymous Wed 19 Feb 2025 23:14:56 No.2034448 Report

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>>2034447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0905U7c2V8

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Anonymous Thu 20 Feb 2025 02:09:58 No.2034465 Report

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>>2034447
YAYYY!!! I'm so glad she's not getting scrapped

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Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2025 20:18:17 No.2034814 Report

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So nice to see her at sea one last time

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 23 Feb 2025 21:58:59 No.2034832 Report

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>>2018469
I always wished i had an aircraft carrier in the feild in my backyard just so i could park my cars in it.

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Anonymous Wed 26 Feb 2025 02:28:24 No.2035048 Report

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>>2015994
I would like to take this opportunity to nominate another candidate for artificial reef.

Kindly leave the crew onboard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 05:26:07 No.2035196 Report

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>>2015994
Sinking just like the actual USA lol
RIP

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Anonymous Fri 28 Feb 2025 05:32:57 No.2035198 Report

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just past Key West

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 09:27:58 No.2035273 Report

Quoted By: >>2035303 >>2037136

I first became aware of the ship when I watched a Youtube documentary about it several years ago. Ever since then I knew it would never be restored.
It's some group of nobodies e-begging for donations, the majority of which cover the storage, security and bare minimum of upkeep of the ship, absolutely nothing was going into actual restoration works, and it had been over 20 years at that point.
Every year labour gets more and more expensive, and the condition of the ship gets worse and worse.

I would honestly be interested in a report of how the donations were spent over the 30-ish years, because I have a strong feeling the heads of the "conservancy" were basically using it as a pay-cheque.
In one Facebook post not long after the sale was announced, people were asking financial questions (gib donation back plz), and they responded that 80% of donations went towards the ship (storage, security, upkeep, etc), meaning the other 20% were used to pay themselves a wage for heading the "conservancy" they set up. I also saw there was a lot of volunteers on staff, meaning less wages to pay other than their own.

It's pretty clear the whole thing was mismanaged and they got complacent over nearly 3 decades, and here we are.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 01 Mar 2025 16:05:45 No.2035303 Report

Quoted By: >>2046238

>>2035273
>It's pretty clear the whole thing was mismanaged and they got complacent over nearly 3 decades, and here we are.
Being from Philadelphia, I fully expect that pier to be underused and left vacant for tax reasons or some bullshit, so losing the ship still sucks.
>go to Ikea
>eat meatballs
>see the SS US out the 2nd floor window
will become just another warehouse if that.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 11:15:59 No.2035397 Report

Quoted By: >>2035404 >>2040027

Palm Beach Post has shots of it off the coast of Florida, close to land

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 14:12:55 No.2035404 Report

Quoted By: >>2035412

>>2035397
In the open ocean, is it being pushed by a rack of tugboats or just kind of pulled along?
Is someone at (what's left of) the helm steering it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 14:54:11 No.2035412 Report

Quoted By: >>2035418 >>2035420 >>2035651

>>2035404
much like its namesake, no competent captain is at the helm, instead it is drunkenly drifting to a watery grave led by delusional hucksters promising a deranged fever dream of a lost past based on a confused understanding of history while onlookers rubberneck with a mixture of horror and disgust

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 15:32:36 No.2035418 Report

Quoted By: >>2035466

>>2035412
>blah blah blah
Yeah, but how is the tug boat rigged to keep it on course?
In the Delaware it had a whole convoy, which would be expensive to do the whole way there for one, and for two I only see one tug in the picture.
It looks like a single tow line to the bow, which isn't really visible at that distance.

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Anonymous Sun 02 Mar 2025 16:02:44 No.2035420 Report

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>>2035412
keep it on fagbook, boomer

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Anonymous Mon 03 Mar 2025 03:59:18 No.2035466 Report

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>>2035418
Looks like a single line.

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Anonymous Tue 04 Mar 2025 23:22:05 No.2035651 Report

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>>2035412
i dont see any jews undermining it, what a flawed and gay analogy.

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Anonymous Thu 20 Mar 2025 01:37:44 No.2037057 Report

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She's currently in Mobile, a fate worse than death

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 21 Mar 2025 06:29:35 No.2037136 Report

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>>2035273
All the conservancy stuff was too late regardless. The ship was doomed when the interior was stripped for scrapping. They just wasted the last 30 years prolonging the inevitable.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Apr 2025 03:42:01 No.2038656 Report

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This thread shall not sink until she does

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 May 2025 19:51:57 No.2039733 Report

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Do you think they should remove the superstructure and turn it into a museum instead of just recreating it?

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Anonymous Sat 10 May 2025 00:32:27 No.2040027 Report

Quoted By: >>2040519

>>2035397
Such an attractive silhouette. It's such a big ship but look at how sleek it looks. It almost has fast warship lines.

Makes me wonder. Was this ship built with the ability to be turned into an auxiliary cruiser? A lot of people don't know this, but even the Titanic was built with strengthened deck positions to allow it to mount guns and become an armed auxiliary cruiser in times of war. If I recall correctly her sister ship Olympic actually was used as an auxiliary cruiser. There were actually naval battles between repurposed ocean liners in WWI. But the SS United States is from the 1950s so maybe they stopped with the doctrine by then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 13 May 2025 06:21:15 No.2040358 Report

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>>2018337
what type of bow is that?

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Anonymous Tue 13 May 2025 15:11:19 No.2040380 Report

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>>2018340
It will keep them from being stupid and going inside of it.

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Anonymous Thu 15 May 2025 14:44:15 No.2040519 Report

Quoted By: >>2054047

>>2040027
THE SS United States was actually partially funded by the U.S. government to be used as a troop transport if needed, kind of like the Queen Mary. Parts of the design were considered classified military secrets for years.

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Anonymous Mon 09 Jun 2025 05:56:40 No.2043174 Report

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Bump

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Anonymous Thu 12 Jun 2025 21:49:16 No.2044041 Report

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>>2016147
kek

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Anonymous Thu 26 Jun 2025 17:25:43 No.2046156 Report

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Awaiting her fate - March 2025

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Anonymous Fri 27 Jun 2025 03:44:49 No.2046238 Report

Quoted By: >>2049109

>>2035303
>will become just another warehouse if that.
Housing for the homeless.

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Anonymous Wed 09 Jul 2025 00:13:36 No.2047886 Report

Quoted By: >>2047896

Speaking of ocean liners, the MS Stockholm, the ship that hit the SS Andrea Doria, is currently at the scrappers

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Anonymous Wed 09 Jul 2025 01:06:08 No.2047891 Report

Quoted By: >>2048374

>leaves ship to rot in a warehouse district for thirty years
>fails to pay rent
>gets evicted
>"GUYS!!! WE NEED MONEY JUST.. BECAUSE! OKAY!?"
>half of the money was probably laundered
>coast guard themselfs says the ship is on the verge of sinking
>"Guys we can save it if trump buys it!"

Who the fuck was running the united states conservation group? I've seen tourist trap railroads in the midwest with better leadership then this.

I just want them to tow the fucking thing out and let a few F-18's to blast the hull open, that would be fucking awesome

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 09 Jul 2025 01:51:48 No.2047896 Report

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>>2047886
OUTTA THE WAY, ANDREA DORIA FUCKING SHITS

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Anonymous Sat 12 Jul 2025 23:17:55 No.2048374 Report

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>>2047891
They got close enough a couple times to selling it to groups that promised to rehab + operate it. I can kinda understand why they held out hope for so long.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 19 Jul 2025 18:46:57 No.2049109 Report

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>>2046238
I doubt it. Even a crack den is unlikely because that pier is privately owned and considered waterfront property.
So some hair-brained developer will try to build shitty townhouses on it probably, which might get filled by rich yuppies from overseas but just as likely it's an empty pier for a long time.

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Anonymous Mon 04 Aug 2025 21:18:40 No.2050527 Report

Quoted By: >>2050528 >>2050689

>>2015994
The forward funnel was removed from the ship today

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 04 Aug 2025 21:27:17 No.2050528 Report

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>>2050527
Symbolic of America's wealth being divvied up and harvested for scrap to the Musks or the McMahons or whatever courtesan most recently said the most flattering thing to the Mad King

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2025 09:28:29 No.2050689 Report

Quoted By: >>2050693

>>2050527
This could be good, if they remove both funnels and the mast then it can be sunk shallower than >>2018337 shows

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 06 Aug 2025 10:06:34 No.2050693 Report

Quoted By: >>2051767

>>2050689
I could swear I read somewhere they're removing both funnels (one for the museum, one for ?), and the bridge/mast (also for the museum), so the final thing should be a short as you're imagining.
It makes for a less impressive sight but eh.

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Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 09 Aug 2025 20:37:06 No.2050970 Report

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Both funnels removed

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Anonymous Thu 21 Aug 2025 05:11:17 No.2051767 Report

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>>2050693
Concept pic of the ship's museum to be built in Fort Walton Beach

Also, per https://myokaloosa.com/SSUSFAQs with the funnels gone they plan to sink her so it's 55 feet to the upper deck

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Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 01:33:23 No.2053404 Report

Quoted By: >>2053405

She looks so naked without her funnels

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 09 Sep 2025 01:39:37 No.2053405 Report

Quoted By: >>2053481

>>2053404
Is this still in Alabama?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Sep 2025 04:14:04 No.2053481 Report

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>>2053405
yes, and probably be there until March 2026 at least

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beep beep

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 17 Sep 2025 05:41:57 No.2054047 Report

Quoted By: >>2055121

>>2040519
>Parts of the design were considered classified military secrets for years
what, like the fact that the whole "no flammable materials used in construction" was bullshit?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Oct 2025 19:43:31 No.2055120 Report

Quoted By: >>2055214

Has there been any word on when she'll be sunk?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Oct 2025 20:13:25 No.2055121 Report

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>>2054047
nta but propeller shapes are (were?) commonly considered military secrets because knowing the acoustic signature of the enemy's ships can be advantageous for an attack sub, for instance. pretty sure the other anon was referring to the props because imagine letting the enemy know how to passively identify a prime target like a huge troop transport

there's obviously other ways to acquire this information but might as well make them work for it, right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Oct 2025 07:40:45 No.2055214 Report

Quoted By: >>2056186

>>2055120
back in August, the county said the ship would be sunk in late 2025.
But, they also said the ship would need about a year of prep work after leaving Philly which would mean March 2026.
At any rate no earlier than December so that hurricane season is over

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 15 Oct 2025 04:58:02 No.2056186 Report

Quoted By: >>2057179

>>2055214
county posted an update of Facebook last week, which I can't read, so from a TV station:
A date and location for the deployment of the SS United States as the World’s Largest Artificial Reef have not been finalized. She is still expected to be deployed in late 2025 about 20 NM south of Destin-Fort Walton Beach.

All fuel has been removed from all 120 tanks aboard the ship. Extensive cleaning continues on those tanks to meet inspection standards.
Top four decks have been fully remediated and are ready for inspection.
All portholes and windows have been removed.
70% of the wiring has been removed.
Funnels, radar mast, propellers and other large topside items were removed in August.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 24 Oct 2025 19:58:31 No.2057041 Report

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Bumpo

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Oct 2025 05:46:22 No.2057179 Report

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>>2056186
Okaloosa County commissioners have approved nearly $68,000 to document the towing and sinking with a live video stream.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 26 Oct 2025 09:08:27 No.2057183 Report

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>>2018494
>It's 60 times more efficient per ton,
Not if you have to eat and sleep. They are expensive bit you are light and cannot be stacked twenty deep in a steel container. Real world efficiency is what counts not theoretical maximums.

People make similar errors with trains and buses failing to take account of the wasted space between each train or a bus on a dedicated bus lane.

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