Ocean Liner fans

[L.Mark]

Don't know if anybody is in to this but I love reading about the great old Ocean Liners, and the dwindling few that are still around but are slowly going to the breakers. I have followed Americas ONLY true ocean liner the SS United States for more than 15 years now and it looks like she's coming to end. One way or another. Either they will find a backer or she'll be sold and sent to the breakers...It's an interesting history to read about...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_United_States

http://www.ssusc.org/--These are the people who are trying to get her refitted for another purpose...

[Marauderjack]

My Grandparents came from Switzerland in the ships attached in 1919 arriving at Ellis Island!! The records are still available on their site!!

If interested in Maritime Traffic just have a look here!!

http://www.marinetraffic.com/en/

We watched real time activity in Antarctica a few weeks back.....COOL STUFF!!:beer:

[L.Mark]

Cool info thanks!!!

[Mr. Man]

My grandparents used to go back and forth to the "old country" every so often. Most of the ships they went on are at the bottom of the Atlantic.

[L.Mark]

Better to die in service that to go to the breakers in my opinion...I watched(in pictures) the SS France being cut up for scrap. This was the ship under the ownership of the NCL as the SS Norway a few years back the boiler blew up while she was docked. I t was all over the news...sad ending of a neglected ship...

[Bigdogjim]

SS United States is docked in Phila. has been for many years I have watched it rust away over the years, very sad end for a ship that at one time held both records for the fastest crossings of the Atlantic. (East to west & west to east)

[License2Bill]

Scuttle her! She would make a sweet artificial reef for scuba divers with wreck certs like myself!

[L.Mark]

SS United States is docked in Phila. has been for many years I have watched it rust away over the years, very sad end for a ship that at one time held both records for the fastest crossings of the Atlantic. (East to west & west to east)

She actually still holds it I believe...she was an elegant if not somewhat bland compared to other liners...

[L.Mark]

Scuttle her! She would make a sweet artificial reef for scuba divers with wreck certs like myself!

If she loses the battle shell be sent to the same place as SS Norway and cut apart for scrap...of course she's already been about 60% gutted already...

[Bigdogjim]

She actually still holds it I believe...she was an elegant if not somewhat bland compared to other liners...


United States lost the eastbound speed record in 1990 to Hoverspeed Great Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoverspeed_Great_Britain); however, she continues to hold the Blue Riband as all subsequent record breakers were neither in passenger service nor were their voyages westbound.

[L.Mark]

Yup, that's what I meant...oh to go back in time a little...:D