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America’s Flagship to Be Buried at Sea

USA Today

The SS United States, a long-retired and once-glamorous ocean liner bigger than the Titanic and the fastest ever to cross the Atlantic, will soon set sail for the last time. Its final voyage will end off Florida’s Gulf coast with “America’s Flagship” becoming the world’s largest artificial reef.

It’s a bittersweet finale for the ship. It can’t be saved, but it won’t be scrapped. More

12 Comments on America’s Flagship to Be Buried at Sea

  1. In 1964, my father was stationed to Germany and we were able to go with him. We sailed out of New York on Friday, March 20. We docked in Bremerhaven on the morning of Sunday, March 29. In the next birth was the SS United States.

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  2. A 4 year cruise on an artificial reef? Sounds like a perfect way for prog-libs to protest President Trump.
    So, back to the first question in this thread, how many shitbags can we pack in this thing before it’s sent to the bottom of the ocean?

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  3. I can dream can’t I?

    Advertise it as a “Complimentary Cruise for Registered Democrats”
    Then FILL IT WITH democRATz! ”
    Put an industrial RED button in plain sight, Label it with “Push Here If Yew Hate Trump” then put a two week delay on it before it can be active. Start a five minute flashing mode when someone pushes (or hammers it) it after the timeout period.
    Go into a five minute countdown, then detonate.
    Hopefully it is still physically intact after these freaks have been hammering on it for two weeks!!

    Oh BTW – The ocean should clear all the shit off the decks when it sinks…

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  4. I once saw a half-capsised river steamer in the Tigra river delta in Argentina. By the looks of it, I thought it was probably used in the 1920’s till maybe the 1950’s…just a guess. The hulk was half-rusted away. I stared at it for a while, imagining the wild parties on board with the wealthy Argentinians cavorting…sex, booze, probably drugs, perhaps drunks falling overboard, maybe a couple of suicides…you name it…and it probably happened on it.

    I guess nobody had the money to re-float and refurbish it. The sight of it astonished me. It’s like when you look at pictures of abandoned and run-down castles and mansions in Europe. I have to wonder what went on there and what happened to the former owners.

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  5. I wish that the Navy would have scuttled the Kitty Hawk and made it into an artificial reef like they did with the Oriskany. The Kitty Hawk deserved a better fate than to be scrapped, I wish that they could’ve made it into a floating museum. I would’ve donated money for that along with a lot of other former Kitty Hawk crew members both from the ship’s company and the air wing attached to it. The Oriskany was in Subic Bay in the Philippines in the spring of 1974 just before the Kitty Hawk sailed back into Subic Bay for a short R&R visit and port call.

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