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Restoring “America’s FLAGSHIP”
Current efforts & plans to restore and repurpose the SS United States
and create the SS United States Center for Design & Discovery
Reporter: “Mr. Gibbs, I do believe you love
the United States more than your wife.”
Gibbs: “You are a thousand percent correct.”
Fortune magazine, August 1957
Background
Early Gibbs sketch for a 1,000 foot liner, 1915
Background
The SS United States under construction and at launch, 1951
Background
The SS United States on her speed trials, making an excess of 38 knots
Service Career
The SS United States in New York, just having
broken both the eastbound and westbound
speed records (July 17, 1952)
Service Career
SS United States
Overall Length: 990' • Beam: 101'6" • Overall Height: 175' • Gross tonnage: 53,329
Service Career
Maximum Speed
Service Career
Capacity
= 20 people
Service Career
United States Lines publicity shots
Service Career
Celebrity Passengers
Sid Luft & Judy Garland
The Duke & Duchess of Windsor
Duke Ellington & Ethel Merman
John F. & Jackie Kennedy
John Wayne with Commodore Anderson
Marlon Brando & Salvador Dalí
Prince Rainier III of Monaco & Grace Kelly
Layup
Layup
The SS United States Conservancy
Founded in 2004 as an advocacy group
Purchased the ship outright in 2011 with
a generous $5.8M grant from
H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest
Has members from all 50 states and
22 countries; in addition to Lenfest
contributions, has raised $1 million in
support of museum plans, outreach and
preservation activities
H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest
The SS United States Conservancy
The Conservancy envisions
the SS United States’ next
role as a stationary waterfront
attraction in a major American
port city
The most important and most
impressive of the ship’s former
public rooms will be restored
to their original 1950s
configuration
The SS United States Conservancy
Rendering of the proposed onboard museum, in the ship’s
former first and
tourist class lounges
The SS United States Conservancy
Renderings of exhibits and experiences
both on board and in visitors center
SS United States Redevelopment PRoject
The SS United States can provide more
than 600,000 square feet of usable
space ready for development following
interior and exterior surface remediation
Stationary, mixed-use, waterfront
destination: a unique draw for hundreds of
thousands of visitors per year
Potential uses include:
• Event Space
• Meeting / Conference Center
• Boutique Hotel
• Restaurants
• Retail
• Educational & Environmental
Research Spaces
• Public Space / Recreation
• Galleries
• Performance Space
• Combined Heat & Power Generation
SS United States Redevelopment PRoject
Key
Accomodation
Accomodation b.o.h.
Food + Beverage
Kitchens
Public Viewing
Center for Design & Discovery
Circulation
unused or Usage Tbd
Mechanical
Open To Below
SavetheUnitedStates.org
Innovative crowdfunding website
that allows visitors to donate to the
Conservancy and “own” a piece of a
virtual SS United States
Fundraising & Current Challenges
The Conservancy must raise $500,000 in the immediate short term to keep the ship
secure while we continue to conduct due diligence on late-breaking development and
financing opportunities and advance our museum and curatorial plans.
We ask for your support in our plan to make the
SS United States, once again, “America’s Flagship”
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