I just did a quick search and found out the bad news ... the deal is busted:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/bu...iner.html?_r=0
Quote:
Crystal Cruises luxury travel company commissioned a feasibility study to return the S.S. United States to oceangoing service — an idea that astonished even the vessel’s most optimistic supporters.
Now, however, the verdict is in: It’s not going to happen. After an outlay of about $1 million on the study, Crystal has decided that the obstacles are too great.
There was “a lot of really sincere disappointment, we really tried to make a go of it,” said Tim Sullivan, a retired Coast Guard rear admiral and a consultant to Crystal who led the assessment. There were “no huge showstoppers,” he said, but a combination of engineering and regulatory obstacles ultimately put commercial success out of reach.
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I hope she can still go to dry dock and hopefully her birth place of Newport News shipyard in Newport, VA to get an overhaul minus the engine of course.
She would make a great grand hotel somewhere
