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Posted by walt slocombe
on 10/25/2009, 7:10 am, in reply to "SS United States is a lost cause"
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Warrior was preserved largely with private money and in clever ways to reduce costs -- e.g., instead of real cannon, they used fiberglass replicas, which are very light and therefore did not require decks capable of carrying the huge weight of the real thing. The "engines" are fiberglass false fronts. (All the original insides had long since been removed.) Moreover, of course, Warrior is at the big naval museum at Portsmouth, with many other attractions, so there is more traffic, more revenue, and more interest -- including in state support for the facility.
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: There is neither enough interest nor enough
: money to save the ship.
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: 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.
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: 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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