In its day, the SS United States was a nautical marvel, the fastest passenger liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a record time that has stood for more than 70 years. It was also hailed as an engineering masterpiece, designed in close cooperation with the U.S. Navy as a potential troop ship in the event of a war.

But the only race the vessel known as “America’s flagship” is competing in now is a race against time to avoid the scrapyard.

After a judge last month ordered it to leave its berth at Pier 82 in Philadelphia, the SS United States Conservancy, the ship’s current owner, is scrambling to raise $500,000 to help cover the cost of a potential relocation and other expenses. The ruling was the result of a lengthy rent dispute between the conservancy and the ship’s current landlord, which sought to double the vessel’s daily dockage fee.

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