Abandoned Cruise Ship Philadelphia
Today I wanted to take a look at the iconic American ocean liner resting abandoned in Philadelphia.
Abandoned cruise ship philadelphia. Other sources claim that the Galaxy was deliberately sunk on the west coast of Bang Bao beach. We found and entrance in the back of the ship even with the front of the ship closed off and there are plenty of open windows to climb through. There are more awesome video.
Following the September 11 attacks the Philadelphia terminal accommodated some of the ships that had been diverted from New York. Updated December 1 2019 By Matthew Christopher Going aboard the SS United States had been something I dreamed about for years but it seemed as though it would never happen. From runabouts and high performance cruisers to.
Once inside its impossible to miss The Galaxy a giant abandoned cruise ship. In fact shes the current holder of the Blue Riband an award given to the fastest passenger liner that crossed the Atlantic Ocean with record-breaking speed despite having retired from service in 1969. The ship was supposed to be docked here for 21 days.
The Philadelphia Cruise Terminal was located at 5100 South Broad Street within the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Drone Footage From Laszlo Bagi Twitter. Worldwide 4866 seafarers on a total of 336 vessels have been recorded as abandoned on board ship in records kept by the International Maritime Organisation IMO and the International Labour Organisation ILO since 2004.
The Port of Philadelphia operated a cruise ship terminal until 2011. In 2013 the shipyard filed a lawsuit in court seeking to seize and resell the vessel to recoup. The 50-year-old cruise ship which holds the speed record for a ship in its class for years has been unused and docked like a ghost ship on the Delaware River in South Philadelphia an aging.
In November of 1978 the venerable Duke was retired from service on the seas a new landlocked career was about to begin. There has been a dramatic rise in cases over the past two years. The ship hit bottom so to speak in 2007 when the City of Alameda California officially declared it abandoned.
