the SS United States was built solely because one man had the life long goal of building a 1,000 foot long ocean liner, so at the end of his career and as ocean liners were being phased out he put fucking everything on the table and cashed in all his favors to build One Last Boat
neat. hey btw wanna guess how long the SS United States is?

anyways I just noticed that the video im watching about this ship rn is like two hours long when I was expecting it to be ten minutes long so im fucking rocking back and forth real excited
ooo it had its full complement of life boats twice over! enough boats for each passenger on both sides! so many sinkings I read about end up with listing that makes half the boats unusable so that rules
ooooo everything is fireproof! the only wood on the ship was the piano! so many ships sank because of fire that ruuules! they used aluminum instead so even still it was more light weight than other ships
jdfka;jf;aj;a the reason the piano is wooden is that the piano maker refused to make an aluminum one and when the argument grew heated he dumped gasoline on the piano in his office and lit it on fire in front of the shipbuilder to prove that they're not that flammable fjka;f
