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Originally Posted by Kapitan
SS United states been laid up for a very long time i cant ever see her going back to sea, its full of rust and wont pass SOLAS 2010 for definate.
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SOLAS 2010 will likely only apply to ships whose keels was laid after a certain date, unless it's a large deviation from previous convention. The smaller stuff (IE, the stuff that donT require modifying the ship itself) would apply, but otherwise she'd still be classed under whatever rules and convention were in effect at the time her keel was laid.
Unless, of course, the recomissionning effort involves such major modification to the ship that it's considered a rebuilding.
In any case, it probably wouldn't be financially viable to put her back into service. Cripe, the boat is steam powered! With today's fuel cost, how can that ever be profitable? They have to compete with everybody else out there.
Nobody ever says anything when a cargo boat gets scrapped.