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MagnusUnda t1_j1k5tjq wrote

The SS United States holds the record for fastest trans Atlantic passenger crossing time, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at it today

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Cobey1 t1_j1kc09g wrote

Literally was about to write this haha. Also, the owner has been paying $60,000 a month in rent for 18 years to keep it docked there

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DELAPERA t1_j1kjpvj wrote

What? That is insane! Who’s the owner? If they stops paying, will someone move it at all?

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Cobey1 t1_j1kky2b wrote

Yeah for real! There’s some really interesting history behind the ship, from previous owners, to different companies trying to turn it into a cruise line, etc. this is the most updated article on the ship: https://www.wearetheunitedstates.org/single-post/2017/09/05/frequently-asked-new-ss-united-states-location

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John_EightThirtyTwo t1_j1wutgg wrote

Greatest and (nearly) last of the ocean liners.

An ocean liner is kind of like a cruise ship. And it's kind of the opposite of a cruise ship.

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waterboy1321 t1_j1ktqex wrote

I would absolutely love to see it rehabbed as a little shopping Center or hotel; unfortunately, based on the reading I’ve done, I don’t think it’s feasible. But it’s beautiful.

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mikebailey t1_j1li0v0 wrote

There’s just nothing to rehab unfortunately, it’s empty

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DUPCangeLCD t1_j1m8nli wrote

It’s crazy how much power that ship has/had. More than 3x the power while less than 1/4 the weight of the current largest cruise ship in the world (Wonder of the Seas).

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psuedonymously t1_j1kmwcx wrote

Keep this quiet, I’ve been squatting in the ship for years, and gradually furnishing it with stuff I find in the IKEA dumpster.

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jpdub17 t1_j1kqs8o wrote

and asbestos

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patrickk1220 t1_j1krtc7 wrote

all the asbestos is gone! It's pretty much empty inside. I got to tour it a few years back.

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smibrandon t1_j1mi3aw wrote

Tour??? Tell me more, please! How how how??

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patrickk1220 t1_j1mwmlo wrote

A few years back the Young Friends of the Preservation Alliance hosted a tour as part of the Rust Belt Takeover conference! There is a caretaker who lives on the ship (or was then at least). Most of the ship is totally empty, but it’s still incredible to see the scale. One propeller sits on the stern deck. We also got to go up in the crows nest!

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nolandeluca t1_j1nqarl wrote

If you donate $200 they'll give you a tour, it's crazy how empty it is now that all the fixtures are gone

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nolandeluca t1_j1nqevj wrote

Email the info like found on their website, I donated $200 and got a pretty fun tour!

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Former_Ad7944 t1_j1kco54 wrote

My kids call that the ghost ship

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LimousineAndAPeetzah t1_j1pfv76 wrote

A Halloween haunted house inside there would be insane! I know they already do that with the Queen Mary, but still.

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phillyEMdoc t1_j1kane9 wrote

The Chik Fil A next door is redundant after eating all those Swedish meatballs, I agree

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Mommy-Q t1_j1kecwd wrote

I kept looking for something beside the ship.

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ryanechols t1_j1kqn0h wrote

The craziest thing to me is learning that ship is bigger than the Titanic.

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e-joculator t1_j1kxpp8 wrote

The titanic was only big for its day. Compared to most of what came after, it was relatively small.

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Reditate t1_j1l5rko wrote

And this ship is quite small when you think of modern cruise liners.

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FlyByPC t1_j1l8o4s wrote

Lots of more modern ships are larger than Titanic class.

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nolandeluca t1_j1nopqi wrote

Most modern cruise liners are double and triple the size of the titanic

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DogsBucolic t1_j1kh829 wrote

My mom came over on that boat.

If you’re going to make a joke about this comment, don’t make the obvious one.

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Ameyring2 t1_j1klwbc wrote

Not a joke, but Bill Clinton was also once a passenger, probably to attend Oxford.

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FordMaverickFan t1_j1lpolh wrote

It's the naval equivalent to a car with Delaware tags and 4 flat tires that has been in front of my house for 25 years.

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c0lin268 t1_j1kbis7 wrote

I really hope when they refurbish this jawn they keep it in Philly

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blowjob215 t1_j1kge6i wrote

It ain’t ever gonna get refurbished. The most feasible plan for restoration would have involved sending it to South Street Seaport in NYC but even that wasn’t feasible enough to happen.

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c0lin268 t1_j1kh10k wrote

There’s a current plan to refurbish it on the ships website just look it up. They still need funding and stuff but at least theres a group currently working on it. It lists a few cities that they are considering keeping the ship at including Philly

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DuckMan6699 t1_j1kokph wrote

There have been plans to refurbish it for decades, nothing has ever come of them

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GooFoYouPal t1_j1k9j0g wrote

You oobatz or somethin’ pal?

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Muppet_Rock t1_j1kg30o wrote

This thing smells so bad in the summer if the wind blows the wrong way in the heat lol.

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thirteenwide t1_j1knzjd wrote

I got a private tour of the ship once. It's not the ship that smells bad. There's a big warehouse where raw cocoa (or maybe coffee) comes in from South America. What you are smelling is just a giant mass of unrefined chocolate (or coffee if my memory is faulty)

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blowjob215 t1_j1kgnv8 wrote

What’s the smell? Or, more precisely, what’s causing the smell? Did they forget to empty the sewage tanks or what?

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Muppet_Rock t1_j1kgwsp wrote

I'm not sure, but to me it smells like intense rot. Dead fish, stinky river, rotting decay, all that fun stuff. I try to stay away from that area when the heatwaves hit.

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blowjob215 t1_j1kh77c wrote

That sounds like the Delaware’s problem, not the ship’s haha. It’s made of steel and had a nuclear reactor—does uranium have an odor?

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machinerer t1_j1klrlq wrote

S.S. United States is a cruise ship. It never had a nuclear reactor. U.S. Navy vessels had those.

It was fitted with regular oil fired boilers, and steam turbines. The engines have been removed, last I checked.

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blowjob215 t1_j1kn0yw wrote

I must’ve been confusing it with the Savannah or something, I could’ve sworn it was a nuclear-powered cruise ship

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machinerer t1_j1kp8e5 wrote

To the best of my knowledge, only a few Navies of the world operate nuclear powered warships.

I have never heard of any civilian vessel having such technology. The cost is enormous, and the safety regulations involved are quite taxing and severe.

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blowjob215 t1_j1kpxj7 wrote

Yeah, you’re right on all points. I think my mind connected the dots from “built in the 1950’s,” “fire-proof” and “speed record holder” to erroneously conclude it must have been nuclear-powered. TIL it was made of aluminum, and had tremendous fuel capacity—i.e. fossil fueled, not atomic.

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nolandeluca t1_j1np930 wrote

Uranium doesn't have an odor, it's found it most bedrock in certain parts of the US and just looks like plain rock most of the time, the green and yellow stuff is heavily refined final product :D

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blowjob215 t1_j1ny3o1 wrote

Not nuclear powered, and built of aluminum not steel

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Keldeoreed t1_j1kzcqg wrote

Anytime someone's visiting from out of town I try to convince them that that is the Titanic and it works pretty well

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napsdufroid t1_j1pcj5h wrote

Where are they visiting from and how dumb are they not to know that's impossible?

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Chiefduke t1_j1mdqrb wrote

The real view is from up in the cafeteria.

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DaCheat452 t1_j1kovqm wrote

My roommate and I call it the Ghost Boat.

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Haz3rd t1_j1l533y wrote

Enjoy the outside, cause there's just nothing on the inside of it. EVERYTHING has been stripped away and it's literally just raw steel inside. It's kinda sad

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wolferoad t1_j1lsnt3 wrote

And there’s not much left in the ship either!

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D_Ranz_0399 t1_j1l1sp9 wrote

That poor old ship just can't get the right love. I guess it's going to sit there until it dissolves into the Delaware

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mikebdesign t1_j1m6fol wrote

I have an architect friend who got to go inside and do a survey to asses the condition and see if it could be adapted into a hotel. There is apparently a whole section that is welded shut and basically sealed since it was decommissioned.

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CathedralEngine t1_j1mq0rl wrote

Did anyone ever get to go in the ball pit at the IKEA?

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WeJustDid46 t1_j1mw0dj wrote

A rusting away hulk that will probably sink at the pier.

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nolandeluca t1_j1nofv6 wrote

There are many signs in the food court explaining the ship

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Rahawk02 t1_j1r4knq wrote

Reminds me of the good old days of 2019 taking my then 4 YO kid to eat Swedish meatballs buy a Kallex shelf for my records look at the cool ship and catch Pokémon in the parking lot .

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rita_giordano t1_j1w027v wrote

That ship was considered revolutionary when it was new.

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drakeschaefer t1_j1kq7so wrote

Being on the north end of the city, I had a brief moment of wondering why there was a ship in Conshohocken

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nolandeluca t1_j1nprxv wrote

We are one of the few cities in the world with 2 ikeas

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drakeschaefer t1_j1nuuz8 wrote

From what I can see Chicago, is the only other city in the US with 2. LA County has 4. And the New Jersey/New York locations are about as far as the Philly locations.

Globally I found Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Barcelona, and Manchester have 2 Brussels, and Amsterdam have 3 Madrid and London have 4, and Paris has 7. (Looking at metro areas)

There's more areas that have multiple, and neighboring area with ones too, especially as you go Eastern Europe and the Nordic regions. Stockholm has 2. Älmhult has the one, but it's filled with all the corporate buildings, museum, and hotel

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GooFoYouPal t1_j1krswj wrote

bro, wat ?

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drakeschaefer t1_j1ks2if wrote

What someone mentions IKEA, I think of the one in Conshohocken, so when I saw this, for a fraction of a second I thought there was some ship in Conshohocken

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_SundaeDriver t1_j1kw1nz wrote

You can really see it now that the building s are gone

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jengibredia t1_j1mct19 wrote

I tell people this is the Titanic as a little bit and most don't question it

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jawn_cena_ t1_j1kphr5 wrote

The dumbest name for a ship ever. The United States Ship United States (USS US)

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InspectorEwok t1_j1m6aso wrote

It's the SS United States for "steamship". Not, USS, which is for ships commissioned by the US Navy. It may have had a USS designation while it was a troop transport, but as a civilian vessel, It's SS.

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Rosphindai t1_j1m0owx wrote

Maybe it should hang with the Ferrari La Ferrari.

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jpdub17 t1_j1kr3b2 wrote

that’s what we call it. the USS US

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avo_cado t1_j1kemhg wrote

Save a couple frames but it’s time to scrap it

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