Refurbishing the SS United States, October 5, 2014 - CBS Philly
September, 2014 - Trade Winds Magazine
America's Lost Liners by Jonathan Boonzaier, September 2014, Trade Winds Magazine.
“Over the next two to three months we will either pull this off or we will have to face the unthinkable,” Gibbs adds. That would probably involve scrapping America’s most famous passenger ship — an ironic situation in a country that has managed to preserve almost every major battleship it ever built.
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September 29 - Daily Press
Supporters rush to save Newport News-built liner, SS United States by Hugh Lessig, September 29, 2014 - www.dailypress.com
The SS United States Conservancy, the nonprofit group that owns the ship, recently announced an 11th-hour bid to raise money so the ship can become a pier-side retail and educational complex in New York, where there are potential sites, according to news reports. Its fate could be decided in a matter of hours. The conservancy said last week in a news release that it would decide the ship's future by the end of the month, which is Tuesday.
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