March 26, 2012 - Associated Press
The launch of the Conservancy’s survey of the vessel's existing artwork, furnishings, and other artifacts was featured in an Associated Press story that ran in over a hundred news outlets nationwide from CBS News, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, the Palm Beach Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Anchorage Daily News, the Las Vegas Sun.WHYY, a Philadelphia-based NPR affiliate did a follow-on piece about the Conservancy's efforts to track down the ship's fittings and interviewed the Conservancy's executive director Susan Gibbs. As reporter Peter Crimmins told his radio listeners, "The massive ship that set a record for crossing the Atlantic has been on the chopping blocks for decades. Every time a potential scrapper towed it to a new port, things went missing." The Conservancy is determined to learn where the ship's many treasures have ended up.