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The SS is running near the United States.
After months of delay, the first phase of the journey to its new water home far off the coast of Florida will be quite short – from Pierre 82 to Philadelphia from Pierre 80.
But if everything goes to plan, the Majestic ship will travel on a trip to Florida on Saturday after some shock, which delayed its original departure at the end of last year.
The new owner of the ship, a statement released from Okalosa County, Florida, said on Wednesday that “operations to move the US flagship will begin with a background move.” The move was observed on Thursday morning but is now expected to take place on Thursday evening, According to the WPV associated with CNN.
“SSUS Wow [then] Okalosa County says depart from Philadelphia on Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 4am.
Then for the final preparations for sinking from the coast of Dustin Fort Walton Beach away from the “Big Yu” Florida’s Panland, before staying in Alabama’s mobile and traveling around the southern end of Florida before being stopped It will take two weeks.
The American icon – which set a translantic speed record in 1952 and is close to the Chrislor Building – will then become a shelter for fish and divers as “the world’s largest artificial rock”.
But this is a “temporary schedule”, the statement has been warned. “Dates, times and other logistics are subject to changing.”
The statement said that if the challenges of the Merita on Saturday, the move will take place on the next tide.
Observers of the United States move have become accustomed to changes in projects.
In the last fall, bad weather in the Gulf of Mexico initially delayed the trip to the South. The biggest obstacle came in the form of a “port order captain” by the Coast Guard.
The order obtained by CNN states that the ship “does not have proper stability for the desired transit and offers an effective condition on the port or aquatic passage.” The order states that Okalosa County will be allowed to be restored before allowing the ship’s structural integrity to be restored.
The Coast Guard told CNN last month that “positive progress” was made on the front, County said on Wednesday that it protected “SS USA) by local, state and federal agencies to move to the United States.” The necessary requirements have been completed. ”
The former owner of the ship, SS Conservatives, also confirmed the move on Wednesday, the county to prepare for the trip “comprehensively obligatory”, and “widespread testing”.
According to Okalosa County, once in Alabama, SS -United States posts, contractors “will remove extraordinary materials, including non -metal parts and fuel to ensure fuel and harmful to this environment There is no purpose to benefit. ”
The preparation process will take about 12 months, officials said.
A ship of lore and date
For more than 70 years, the SS state of the United States has made the Americans its distinguished beauty, its 1952 translantic speed record and the world’s most valuable cargo, many American presidents and Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” Hearts and minds have been fascinated to carry. .
She withdrew from the service in 1969. Definition never ended.
Although many of the ship’s long -time fans have mourned the decision to sink, SS Conservatives of the United States and Okalosa County say that SS America was ousted after being expelled from its long -standing Philadelphia Ghat. The only option was to stop.
