CRUISE SHIPS - SS UNITED STATES - NEW HANDCRAFTED

While the United States was at Newport News for her annual overhaul in 1969, her owners decided to take her out of service and a few years later, she was moved to Norfolk, Virginia.  Since then, ownership has been passed between several companies.  In 1978 she was sold to private interests who hoped to revitalize the liner in a time share cruise ship format. Financing fell through and the ship was placed up for auction. During the 1980s the United States was being considered by the United States Navy as a troop ship or a hospital ship to be called the USS United States, but this plan never materialized.  In 1984, the ship's remaining fittings and furniture were sold at auction in Norfolk. Some of the furniture now represents a substantial portion of the interior of Windmill Point, a restaurant in Nags Head, North Carolina. (These items include dining room tables and chairs in the main restaurant and the bar and lounge tables and chairs in the upstairs lounge as well as other items.)

In 1992, a new consortium of owners purchased her and had her towed to Turkey and then Ukraine, where she underwent asbestos removal. No viable agreements were reached in the U.S. for a reworking of the vessel and eventually the United States was towed to her current dock in South Philadelphia, where she has been moored since 1996.

In 2003 she was purchased by Norwegian Cruise Line and the plans were to refurbish her but in January 2009 transferred her title to its parent company Hong Kong based Star Cruises.  Such transfers are often the beginning of a process that ends on the beaches of Alang, India, where ships are dismantled for scrap metal. This was the fate of the SS United States' sister vessel, the SS Independence, which was also owned by Norwegian Cruise Lines and sent to the scrap yard just last year.

So at fifty years old but structurally sound with sleek beautiful lines in need of a paint job and some interior refurbishment she sits virtually unnoticed at a slip in Philadelphia awaiting her fate.

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