SS United States (fixed pictures)

That is gota be so cool to look through. 

PFJN2;

       I see you stated you worked for Gibbs and Cox. How do you feel about the way she's existing now? I, as a former Captain and other bridge officer positions for a competing cargo company(Shell.B.P. on the British side)( Such Jobs were tight here!).

      I always wondered why we have a British Queen in an American City, But, the last holder of BOTH Blue Ribands And American Built, Designed and American crewed Ocean Lady Deserves  better! I believe when you do the Model You will do her justice!

 As a former docent on the U.S.S. Hornet ,I must say, In her formative Museum time was in better shape when we got her, so I cringe when I see photos of the S.S.United States Now!

Hi,

I guess as an engineer (naval architect) I kind of have mixed feelings.  I realize that nothing lasts forever and eventually even the most impressive buidlings, structures, ships, etc may get torn down, scrapped or begin to deteriorate.  But right now, eventhough the ship is still an impressive sight to see, its kind of depressing that she kind of almost seems to exist neither in this world (as an ocean going ship, museum, or monument) nor has she really "passed on to valhalla" or anything like that.  As it is she just kind of sits, as an off limits relic that you can see from the distance, across the street from a shopping center parking lot.

Pat

Hi,

Interestingly, around the time that I was at Gibbs & Cox their Newport News office statrted offering a 3D laser scanning service and they did a 3D walkthrough of parts of the SS United States in part as a demonstration of that capability.  I remeber manning the both at trade shows with the walkthrough on a loop, where in some places you could actually make out the outline of some plants that had sprung up on one of the decks where some branches/leaves & seeds or whatever had gotten through a broken window and had begun to sprout.

Here is a link to an external walkthru of the 3D scan that is posted on the SS United Stated Conservancy site (scroll down to the bottom of the article at the link to see the video)

SS United States Around the Web: Gibbs & Cox's 3D laser scan (wearetheunitedstates.org)

Pat