Plans underway to restore SS United States - Page 2

Platapus · 02-08-16, 05:55 PM

Making the crossing in 4.5 days?

Wow

Some Hollywood director should plan on filming an action movie inside this ship. The fees charged should go a long way to restore this beauty.

Kapitan · 02-13-16, 04:14 PM

My own wonder is will she even pass SOLAS 2015 regulations? the QE2 couldnt even make the 2010 ones !

Mr Quatro · 09-16-16, 09:27 PM

I just did a quick search and found out the bad news ... the deal is busted: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/bu...iner.html?_r=0

Quote:

Crystal Cruises luxury travel company commissioned a feasibility study to return the S.S. United States to oceangoing service — an idea that astonished even the vessel’s most optimistic supporters.

Now, however, the verdict is in: It’s not going to happen. After an outlay of about $1 million on the study, Crystal has decided that the obstacles are too great.

There was “a lot of really sincere disappointment, we really tried to make a go of it,” said Tim Sullivan, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral and a consultant to Crystal who led the assessment. There were “no huge showstoppers,” he said, but a combination of engineering and regulatory obstacles ultimately put commercial success out of reach.

I hope she can still go to dry dock and hopefully her birth place of Newport News shipyard in Newport, VA to get an overhaul minus the engine of course.
She would make a great grand hotel somewhere

09-16-16, 09:33 PM

God damnit...

02-08-16, 05:55 PM	#16
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09-16-16, 09:33 PM	#19
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