S.S. United States to return to active commercial service

I saw a recent video of the ship, as she sits in Philadelphia that also mentioned the retrofit. After the video, I can't imagine where to begin.
That poor thing is gutted completely and in miserable shape.
A really huge task ahead.
I hope they can follow through.

I agree; the chances of this actually happening are slim to none - for a variety of reasons: logistical, engineering, financial, and commercial.

Yes that's the one. I do suppose that if you were going to re-build her, you'd have to gut out the old, rotten, moldy stuff left behind, so, maybe it;s not as bad as it looks.
Even still, looking at the video and photographs, it's overwhelming

They already ripped out the interior years ago in Turkey. All the nasty stuff like asbestos is long gone. There was a big controversy over it, we send our ship overseas and leave all the toxic waste behind.

I cringe everytime I fly into philly and see her just wasting away. The old girl deserves a better fate than that, hopefully this time they can pull off a miracle and restore her to her former glory.

She might look terrible with all that flaking off paint but as long as she still has good bones she'll make it through a refit.

I could never wrap my head around the concept of the Bimini super fast. It's a 50 mile trip, what's the hurry? Not like there's anything on Bimini anyway other than some bars, casino, and hotels.

In California we had a few fast cats that would run to Catalina island, 35-45 miles but it was for day trippers. Run over at high speed and then leave at high speed several hours later after everyone was able to "see the sights".

This reminds me, I need to look up the plans for the 2 different "titanic 2" ventures that were trying to get rolling a few years back.

hard to compete with the floating cities like "allure of the seas" and the rest of those monstrosities for just plain cruising. Guess it depends on what their plans entail for her intended role.

Worst case, it would be great if she wound up a museum attraction like Queen Mary. Beats rusting away or being cut up by a torch for sure.

It depends, it seems like American River Cruises for example has several djfferent area's of the country they cruise in, and very different stops than the large cruise ships take, they charged a premium such as $4200-5200 per week, and seem to be doing well. It intrigued me as I blew past one bringing a boat down the ICW and looked it up and they have neat itineraries, till I got to the price.....Every stateroom had a balcony, etc. etc.

Here's a site that has what seems to be original deck plans, along with ideas for converting the SSUS to a floating museum (same site has a similar plans and ideas for the Queen Mary).

www.sterling.rmplc.co.uk/ssus/

Refurbishment of the SSUS would likely have to include the same changes as were made to the France: take out 2 of the 4 shafts/turbines/boilers to reduce operating costs (but also reduce top speed), add as many "modern" amenities as possible including adding a few decks of suites (but spoiling her profile), get rid of the strict separation of the classes.