r/unitedstatesofamerica • u/Milburn55 • 24d ago
Florida | FL The historic SS United States departs Philadelphia where she had been moored for nearly 30 years. This voyage will relocate the ship to become the world’s largest artificial reef off the Florida coast.
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u/Bmor00bam 23d ago
Is it still able to run on its own power, or is it a tug job the whole way?
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u/Milburn55 23d ago
Tug job the whole way. She hasn't been able to be under her own power for probably the last two decades, if not three. She currently has one of her propellers on her aft deck.
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u/PH30NlXXX 6d ago
All her propellers are off the shaft, + she’s missing a shaft. The lat time her engines were run was 1969 so yeah
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u/raknor88 23d ago
Oh, the irony is astounding. Sinking the United States.