We have a new e-mail address: USSUNITEDSTATES@GMAIL.com
There are also Plank Owner Certificates available for sale at $25, $50, $75, and $100 to enyiyle the barer 3", 6", 9", and 12" replacement parts of the ship such as standing, running rigging and replacement plank as they become available.
As you migt be aware, the year 2012 is the Bi-Centennial of the War of 1812. It was a war that asured our Country as a world power and a power at sea. The frigate USS UNITED STATES delivered the first captured enemy ship as prize to our native soil of any previous declared war. Unfortunately there is nothing that the public can focus on from this galant frigate; no gun, cannonball, wheel, ship's bell, or anything else as there is from younger ships of the United States Navy. Yet, during her career, she participated in the Quasi-War with France, the War of 1812, the War with the Barbary Powers, the War with Mexico, the American Civil War, and as a Slave Market deterrent.
Scrapped in 1866 she met her demise from abuse and neglect. Yet down to the last broken axe she resisted her untimely fate. Such an undeserving fate for any ship should have never happened in the anals of our proud naval history. While sisters were in more sheltered ports, USS UNITED STATES was left behind to rot. God only knows what ever happened to her remains. But now we have the opertunity to rebuild a full-scale seaworthy replica of her; make her sail the seas again. She was heavier, faster, more powerfully armed than her sisters; and she can do it again with your help.
The full-scale seaworthy replica as a living museum can be placed at Fort Mifflin, Philadelphia; the Fort that saved America; the fort that guarded French privateers under the command of a detachment of United States Marines for prisoner exchange.
The cost of Project Old Waggon is estimated at $50,000,000 to include a $100'x300' fiberglass pier to accommodate the frigate in all her glory. She is to be manned by Veterans, ROTC and JROTC Cadets, United States Navy Cadets, United States Coast Guard Cadets, Sea Scouts, Boy Scouts of America, Volunteers and Landsman. And we cannot forget a Woman's Auxilliery. The frigate would enhance old Fort Mifflin and draw the public to help support the fort which could be in danger of our loosing her as one of our most endearing monuments to America's freedom.
ALL donations are tax exempt. Not one penny has gone into my pocket I founded the project September 1978, and to date I am not about to change this any time soon. I have invested about $2,000,000 in time and materials alone over the years and this value grows almost daily.
It costs $5,000 just to keep the foundation going every year. I could use every cent of your donation directly into the USS UNITED STATES Foundation's account. Send an e-mail to USS UNITEDSTATES@GMAIL.com This is the new address as of 07/04/2012. Please send an e-mail and I will supply information to send your donation. Your humble servant; Ed. Zimmerman, Jr.; Founder, President, CEO God Bless the United States of America.