Re: SOS - Save our Ship

The SS United States Conservancy, Foundation, as well as the Save the Classic Liners Campaign have launched the Coalition to Save the SS United States. This is the first time that everyone has gotten together for a common goal. We came to realize that as individuals and separate groups, the ship is lost. But as a single organization, we have a chance at succeeding.

We had a conference call on Tuesday evening, I thought it went well. We are now working on both short term and long term plans for the ship, goals, and action on 4 fronts, Media, Legislative, Direct and Business, all on both a short term and long term time scale. We will be working with NCL....hopefully, to preserve the ship. The current asking price is $20 Million....which is inflated in my opinion, its $18 Million more then they spent on the ship, and $16 Million more then they paid for the SS Independence, which was operating until 2001, and was complete with interior. So hopefully that price will go down.

So, a lot is happening. Steve Ujifusa has set up a blog for the Coalition, but we are still working on it (its only been up for less then a day) but once it is up and going, it will be a good place to check for updates.

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