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Posted by Paul
on 10/24/2009, 7:56 am, in reply to "Re: ...while the SS United States is still not secure. n/t"
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There is neither enough interest nor enough money to save the ship.
As for scrapping the IOWA, few in this country will care. Scrapping the ENTERPRISE CV6 was a national disgrace. The country got over that long ago, and today, nobody except a few of us even care or remember it. They had trouble finding a city in the U.S. that even wanted to take the IOWA. Vallejo is hardly a tourist destination. If IOWA was the last remaining battleship, Americans would care. Otherwise, it's demise will be on page 10 of the newspaper.
Museum ships are hugely expensive to maintain, and the taxpayers are unwilling to bear the cost. And the bigger the ship the more it costs. Today, there are too many museum ships chasing too few dollars. As a result many are rusting away. Look at the YORKTOWN, which the Navy has just said needs a major overhaul or else should be scrapped. The cost of that is said to run over $100 million. Who will pay for it?
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