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See the SS United States 4K drone 2019
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 มี.ค. 2019
- I took my drone up in 20mph winds to take most of these shots, so some may be a little shaky
Sorry for the audio being strange now, one of the 30 second clips i had used before was copyrighted apparently so i had to modify it, this was the first video i ever uploaded on the channel.
Donate to help save the ship here: www.ssusc.org/
Thanks for watching!
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music: Fun time by DJ quads
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Such a shame..
A ship bearing this Country's name is in shambles..
I've been to the HRMS Queen Mary and she's a equally beautiful ship.
I hope the USS AMERICA has a good future.
@Railfan 765 I think the America is actually a shipwreck right now. But I see exactly what you mean. Someone did not pay attention to the video.
At least this ship is floating! The SS American Star has succumb to the sea, and is laying in 2 pieces.
Such a shame, my military family came back from Southampton England to NYC in 1967 on the SS United States, the same route of the Titanic, such a great ship and memory!
This is an AMAZING tribute and advert for the potential still in this great liner! Fantastic job and brilliantly done!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it
I work just down the river from the ship. Even in its present state it's still a awesome thing to see as the sun comes up.
Amazing video - thank you for making this and helping spread the word about such an important piece of American History that is deeply deserving of a full restoration!
Please save this beautiful ship !
They should repaint the ship and keep it as a museum. Fit out part as a hotel. Art-deco style of it is something you just don't see anywhere.
Just repainting the exterior to preserve it would be nice.
Music is a little too early for 1951.
That's what I was thinking, about 30 years too early.
wow amazing drone shots and perfect music added, thank you
Beautifully flown, shot and edited. You definitely did your homework. Thanks.
Thank you so much! It means a lot
So save her while there is still a chance. Even a little sliver of one.
It may already be too late. When engines sit a long time, seals go bad, oxydation sets in, oil becomes thick and tar-like. Those engines will need a rebuild by now.
@@indridcold8433 They would be replaced with modern diesel-electrics.
@@1940limited Modern diesel electrics would breathe new life into the old ship. They would likely take up no more space than the old engines.
@@indridcold8433 They'd probably take up less.
@@1940limited The engines will take up less space but the generators may fill the remaining space. Generators are always large because they require electric coils.
The top speed was actually higher (before limiter was installed to keep bearings from overheating), so fast it could outrun the most modern destroyers of its time.
She was tied up in Norfolk, Va when I was stationed there in the 1970s. She was in good condition and was well-maintained with all furnishings, etc. intact. There were occasional articles in the paper about rumors that she would be reactivated but nothing ever came of it. When she was retired, it wasn't just the crew that lost their jobs, it was also the support staff that were based in Norfolk and Newport News who lost theirs-around 20,000 people. It would be great if she could be restored but I don't think it will ever happen. Who would even know how to run the engines?
I saw her at Newport News. 91-92. I think the current owners have stripped her inside. Such a shame, one of the last great liners.
@@stanstenson8168 I sailed on her from Le Havre to New York when I was a boy in 1955. To this day the voyage is one of my fondest memories.....and it's sad to see her abandoned and weatherbeaten.
That was the time to save it. Once it slips away, it's almost impossible to get it back. You' have to repowers the ship with modern diesel-electric engines to make it run again.
@@1940limited probably wont ever run again. but there was a survey on board the ship not to long ago by a real estate known as RXR Realty and they concluded the ship is in good structural condition. there have been many plans to turn her into a museum/hotel/casino (like the queen mary), but none of them have stuck and suffice it to say, sadly I don't think RXR will go through with their plans as past plans show. that survey also talked about the potential price of putting it back into running order and that is upwards of $1 billion so the chances of that happening, as I said before, are next to 0. I still like to hold out hope, but sadly i wont be holding my breath......
@@SirPsychonautic I feel the same. I've often thought it should have been kept under the auspices of the US Navy and retained as a royal yacht for special occasions. The US Government was the best equipped to preserve andmaintian ths ship.
She is more special than the Queen Mary and should be treated as such ! Great footage !
Well done I really enjoyed that.
She's been saved ! Open for business ! Time to celebrate !
She was never set to her maximum speed, not even on her trials when she accomplished 42.5 knots!!!
RD, I See you everywhere nowdays.
wow! thought she was at the bottom of the sea or turned into thousands of toyotas. well done video.
Nicely done !
Thanks!
American people, she is a pride to your country. She should be restored to her full glory. You have all the means and resources to save her. She is an icon and very well-known ship, she shouldn't be rotting there waiting for her being scrap. You save RMS Queen Mary when you all now she isn't made from your country but then someone made an effort to turn her into a hotel. You guys are lucky to have the power and authority to restore her but you chose not to. You are lucky to have her because here in the Philippines we have shortage of ships here, our ships and ferries here are second-hand bought form Japan and some are not very sea-worthy. Some of the ships are already sunk and lost thousands of lives. You taken here for granted, she kept here promise to serve all Americans before, from wealthy passengers to your troops. Now she needs your help and she is ignored by the people who made her such a shame. Perhaps she's old but she is beautiful, she has this classy-look to her that even the Disney cruise ships and Royal Caribbean Cruises isn't at her level in terms of beauty and posture. You guys spend 200million dollars for a movie of Titanic, then you can gather up millions more to restore here. For she has only 2 future awaiting, restore her and let the future generations about her history and what she 's done to your country or the low road, where you continue to neglect her and soon scrap her. Then, your kids will only see here in the pictures and internet browser when you have the capacity to save here today. Think about it... USA Pride is everything and this is one of em.
You can have her if you want her. Stop by the shipyard with your tugboat and tow her home.
It will cost over a billion dollars to restore. The Queen Mary was converted from ocean liner to hotel 50 years ago. It was not a gutted mess when it was converted. In order to spend that kind of money, not even including ongoing docking fees, an investor will need to know that they will have a return on their investment that will occur within a reasonable amount of time after restoration. A hotel will take years to generate the profit needed to recoup a billion dollar investment. It simply makes no financial sense. Cruise ship companies have studied the feasibility of converting her into a cruise ship and have reached the same conclusion. If you want the government to restore it, you need to convince taxpayers why restoring an old ship is more important than spending money on education, transportation or infrastructure. It would be viewed as a giant waste of taxpayer money and those that authorized the funds would never hear the end of it.
@@crixxxxxxxxx Well put. I have a feeling she's going to stay right where she's at and eventually will be scrapped to the waterline on the spot instead of paying the $1-2 million it would take to dredge and move her to India.
fucking restore it. why is it so hard for people to appreciate these ocean liners. rms olympic scrapped like a common ship
Wow just seems to get worse every month now so sad
Awesome. Which drone did you use?
Gen 1 mavic pro
I would buy this ship just to place it where the ss America rusted and faded away. I would serve as a nice local attraction.
How did you get so low over the back of the ship? Is OcuSync that good or were you able to get near the boat? I was just there a couple of weeks ago and filmed it with a Spark from the Ikea parking lot. The WiFi signal would never let me dip down that low from behind the ship. I had to stay well in sight of the controller. Great work!
Thanks man! I use the first gen mavic pro, it’s definitely risky but the signal is very good! And yes I actually flew that low, if you watch the video I made of the ship graveyard I actually took off in New Jersey because it’s not legal it fly in Staten Island, so I had to folly very very far, but I didn’t have any signal problems.
I just watched your ship graveyard video. It's amazing how low you can get at that distance. I'm looking at the Mavic Zoom in early 2020, looking forward to OcuSync. Great channel, nice flying, subbed!
@@BikerInAHat thanks so much man! i really appreciate it! I will check out your channel as well!
the government should fund her restoration
I don’t want my tax dollars wasted on this.
@@rcpsammy7186 this isnt a waste
@@rcpsammy7186 The way our federal government wastes money? Restoring this ship would be a drop in the bucket of the national budget.
The funnels are just aestetic?
no, they are both functioning.. It took many boilers to run the ship at high speeds.
Is she listing? Take a look at the ship closely in some scenes looks concerning
SHES IS!
that means that shes in danger of sinking in a dock !
I believe she is, especially at 1:48 you can see it easier, it seems as though she is listing on her starboard side. Sad really....
@@jamezy4137 Holy shit! Ikea is listing, too!! Or maybe the drone just wasn't flying perfectly level?
tobad no one doing anything with it its a shame
This ship is the visual example of our country...... going to shit everyday, government is so fucked up it’s crazy
How much does it cost to keep this Ship docked at it's pier and who's paying the cost?
According to wiki (so take it with a grain of salt of course) it is $60,000 per month, but that seems really excessive
@@ArchitecturalOrphans This is just greed on the part of the City of Philadelphia. They set the price so that anyone who comes up with a reasonable plan to save the ship also has to pay the city all the back rent on the pier at $60,000 per month. Its not as if any other ship is waiting in line to use that pier... they are all empty since Former Mayor Goode let all the port economy move to Norfolk in the 1980's.
i hope this ship can be saved. if not it would make a great artifishal reef for marine life in very deep water.better life than being scrapped like the Olympic was and Mauritania.
if they don't I have a feeling they won't let her be scraped and make her into a Reef
ripp aanndd this ship
i want to save the united state
why is this ship not turned to a museum ship
Because there is nothing inside too see. It has been completely gutted out. That's her big downfall.
it can be a great yatch ☹🙁
It should have been preserved as the country's flagship even if only for special occasions.
there is no reason why this ship could not be converted to diesel electric,the qe2 was,that was a steam turbine ship also,anything can be done these days,it just comes down to money,crystal cruises didnt want to pay.
She needs to be saved she is a part of history that is slowly losing life day by day. Refurbish her to her former glory even if she does not sail again at least people could see how a real transatlantic ocean liner was like the Queen Mary in Long Beach California.
I heard billionaire bought the ship and it's just going to rot...
It’s owned by a non profit that is trying to save it but they are having difficulty gaining traction
@@ArchitecturalOrphans
Just read on Wikipedia that the conservatorship signed an "agreement" with RXR Realtors in 12/2018.......
why not restore it to its former glory and moor it next to the queen mary so people can walk from one to the other
Can we fix her or no
it is possible, however pretty much everything inside was gutted a long time ago, making the ship pretty much a shell today...
If you have a spare billion dollars lying around.
Such a shame that such a historic ship and our country's namesake would be allowed to waste away.
Basically in the same state as the country herself.
@@VinylToVideo If this is the state the US is in... then this is Sweden:
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Shows where the counties priorities are. We'd rather fund gender studies in Pakistan.
You will need A much bigger US flag on that mast before the Big U it can sail Thur the south china sea!
If a ship is stationary and does not move on its own power, it dies.
Sad but true
But think of the revival of something like that I know it is very sad but every day this ship can be seen by millions of people. People that could donate we really just need to get more people to know about her and we can just imagine the come back this ship could make
This ship will eventually sail under its own power again..With the revival of the country will come the revival of the ship. The restoration planned is just a step in that direction. Trust and believe it with me. God Bless!
@@ArchitecturalOrphans not true, the queen mary has been stationary since 1967, it's still full of life, and has people in her everyday, living , laughing. And having a good time. Millions have bee spent on her in the last 2 years, repairs, all new paint , plumbing repair, etc.. she looks great, and is still very beautiful inside.
@@johnfranklin5277 hmm that could be an interesting prospect for the United States here, thanks for sharing
Tired unsalvageable. No amount of money can bring her back. Sad but true.
I am sick and tired of all the excuses. Some Billionaire could put a couple of billion in this ship and make it into a Hotel and 5* Resturant and paint it and dock it in New York Harbor or at the Statue of Liberty, it would look grand there.
John Kemper Even billionaires don’t just shell out a billion dollars without a guarantee of making a big profit. There’s no guarantee a restored hotel ship would make that kind of money. It would take years to recoup the initial investment for full restoration and conversion.
Exactly, without a solid business plan to return a healthy profit, anybody with a brain won't sink one thin dime into her.
@@crixxxxxxxxx It would be cheaper for them to buy a modern cruise ship, and just park it... no restoration required... and more hotel rooms to boot.
When ships looked like ships and not these ugly floating apartment blocks we have today...all to serve a big greed fest
Someone can help me?
This it's the sister of SS America?
Yes it is
@@theshippingmatt9109 Thanks. Greetings from Canary Islands
Actually, no- The U.S. is a much larger, more powerful ship. They did resemble each other.
Lawrence Lewis No in the USL documents explain that she would be the running mate of the America technically making them sisters
@@theshippingmatt9109 I was thinking more in the terms of construction, like the Lusitania, Mauretania and Aquitania. But, yeah, you're right.
A real shame that this ship is being allowed to waste away. When you consider the idea of affordable/homeless housing that be made a reality if done correctly.......
Unfortunately, It's done. Best thing to do is drag it out and sink it to become a reef. Atleast it can have chance to help the planet and the ocean
I say that a lot....time to sink it.
Rather that than scrap it.
BS to both of you.
Nice job, but the color in your video is terrible
Not worth saving money could not save it from the damage already done
Money will move mountains. Anything's possible if you have financing.
Take this beloved ship out to the ocean and sink her.
Mary B why?
BS!