For all you liner buffs - s.s.United States

[FuranzuMaru]

Whilst the interiors are not longer in the ship the Windmill Point restaurant does have the 1st class lounge bar. Links below show the bar in situ and at the Windmill.

 

http://www.ssunitedstatesconservancy.org./images/Radler17R.JPG

 

http://www.ss-united-states.com/ag4/wmpbar-b.jpg

 

http://windmillpointrestaurant.com/lounge.html

[pnhmrk]

Whilst the interiors are not longer in the ship the Windmill Point restaurant does have the 1st class lounge bar.

 

If anyone's interested the White Swan Hotel at Alnwick in the north east of England has the original panelling, mirrors, ceiling and stained glass windows from the SS Olympic.

 

There is a page explaining the titanic connection at http://www.classiclodges.co.uk/whiteswan/titanic/titanic.htm and further pictures can be found on http://www.classiclodges.co.uk/whiteswan/gallery/images/pages/DSC_0003_jpg_jpg.htm and then clicking the "next" link.

[pb82]

Her interiors (which few raved about - all that fire division) are gone, and you are happy to rip out the one thing that made her very special.....so remind me, what, exactly are you preserving?

 

Peter

I'm not happy about anything concerning the SS United States now. I saw her gleaming in New York long ago, and I have seen her rusting in Philadelphia

recently. Her speed made her very special and that great speed can be achieved with a more modern power plant (well, two more modern power plants since she had two independent engine rooms). Anyway, as long as she still floats, there's hope, however slight.

 

Paul

[taxprofessor]

Funny, it was her speed that we disliked the most about her. We would arrive in NY, Cobh, Southhampton, or Le Havre far to quickly (as compared to her sister, the SS America, or her contemporaries, the Constitution or the Independence)!

[SeaFlint]

Funny, it was her speed that we disliked the most about her. We would arrive in NY, Cobh, Southhampton, or Le Havre far to quickly (as compared to her sister, the SS America, or her contemporaries, the Constitution or the Independence)!

 

I was in Palma de Majorca over Christmas 80/81 and we sat in the harbor watching a Soviet "cruise ship" racing a Spanish cruise ship coming in to port. As shocking as it may sound, they WERE racing and were racing so hard and so close to each other that the Soviet had to veer off to starboard and away from the harbor when the Spaniard beat the Soviet in to port.

 

Of course, you could hear everyone on every boat in the harbor as well as the passengers cheering.

 

What brought it to mind is that those Soviet "cruise ships" were designed to be able to serve as troop/tank transports, as (I think) was the United States. Thus the speed.