SS United States departure

[Mark]

The long retired SS United States ship will be towed out of Philly
Weds at low tide around 12:51PM. Should be a good Marine show.

SS United States delayed again due to winds, now set to ship out of Philadelphia on Wednesday

The new owners of the historic ocean liner now say it will begin its journey out of Philadelphia on Wednesday.

6abc.com

 

[Mark]

 

[Mark]

SS United States now offshore Ocean City MD being towed by tug Vinik No. 6.

 

[StoliRaz]

Tracking Vinik 6

VINIK NO.6, Tug - Details and current position - IMO 7044328 - VesselFinder

Vessel VINIK NO.6 (IMO 7044328, MMSI 368028510) is a Tug built in 1970 and currently sailing under the flag of United States (USA).

www.vesselfinder.com

Once Norwegian scrapped their plans to refurbish and return her to service that was pretty much the death blow to the SSUS. Shame, looks like it was a beautiful ship in her day. Such a waste. Operated for 17 years then sat 54 years rotting

 

[Mark]

Nice Pic Stoli! Sure was beautiful looking ship back then.. I guess soon as the Worlds largest artificial Florida reef better than scrapping her.
Prob loaded with asbestos etc..It will take time down Florida to clean her up.
Ships like this got sidelined by the Boeing 707 in early 60's. Why risk 3+ days sea sickness and the cold North Atlantic when
you could fly NY to London in 6-7 hours..
Just a different transportation era in 1952.

James Bond loved Pan Am in early 60's 😂

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[StoliRaz]

Nice Pic Stoli! Sure was beautiful looking ship back then.. I guess soon as the Worlds largest artificial Florida reef better than scrapping her.
Prob loaded with asbestos etc..

From what I read the ship was purchased by a wealthy Turkish businessman in the early 90s, who then brought it back to Turkey. Greenpeace protested the move, due to the asbestos on the ship, so the ship was apparently sent to Ukraine to have all of the asbestos remediated in 1993. The ship as it stood today was pretty much gutted, all wall panels were removed inside. Unfortunately a lot of original pieces were already auctioned off by the previous owner in the 80s i.e. the lifeboats so he could keep funding the costs of docking it..sounds like it was ripe for restoration but it still would have cost a small fortune.

I hope the divers have fun exploring it anyways, at least it will still exist in a different capacity

 

[juddallen]

With a bright sun rising early on a cool September morning in 1958, our family arrived in New York harbor on the SS Independence, a US ocean liner that had departed from Genoa, Italy a week and a half earlier. Just after we pulled into our pier on the Brooklyn side of the East River, the SS United States, with the help of tugboats, backed out of its pier, just to the north of us. It turned to the south in front of the Manhattan skyline skyscrapers across the river and slowly proceeded out past the Statue of Liberty and toward the open Atlantic Ocean. It was quite a sight for me, a boy of seven at the time. Huge, sleek, with a gleaming bright paint coating, it was impressive.

 

[hill]

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It's a prime mover with twin 16 cylinder EMDs with 5700 HP total.

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