By DAVE RESS
Its funnels don’t gleam red-white-and-blue the way they did when SS United States left Newport News Shipbuilding in the summer of 1952 — or even after its last stop there in 1970 — but the work of those shipbuilders mean hopes for a new mission for the liner isn’t an impossible dream.
The liner, stuck at a pier in Philadelphia for even longer than it plied the seas, is still structurally sound, said Susan Gibbs, president of the SS United States Conservancy and granddaughter of the naval architect who designed the liner.