25 May 2014

SS United States for the day


The Associated Press has an article about a local landmark:
A massive piece of the historic SS United States is for sale, as the conservancy trying to save the ship is running out of money and time. The SS United States Conservancy is looking to sell a massive propeller sitting on its deck in Philadelphia.
The sixty-thousand-pound propeller will go to the bidder with the highest offer over the scrap value of approximately a hundred thousand dollars. The purchaser will be responsible for removing and transporting the four-blade, eighteen-foot diameter propeller.
It costs fifty-five thousand dollars a month to berth and maintain the thousand-foot long vessel. The conservancy is talking with potential developers and investors to repurpose the ship as a museum and mixed-use destination.
If a buyer is not found by 1 June 2014, the propeller will be sold to a scrapper.
Rico says, yet again, that Philly needs to look to Long Beach, California for the Queen Mary solution...

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