"Below" - The SS United States - A DVD promo by Robert Wogan
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Underbelly and inner workings of an abandoned ship. Artist Robert Wogan documents many miles of modern ruin deep in the bowels of the engineering section of a famous abandoned ship known as the SS United States.
The full length 55 minute video can be purchased on Robert
Wogan's website here:
woganworks.com/...
Other websites of Robert's:
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I gotta tell you Robert. You are one brave guy to walk around that ship like that and not worry about getting lost. My hats off to you bud.
This is a wonderful video, reminds me of my old machinst mate days in the navy... a lot of the same stuff, steam plant technology hasn't changed much in the past 50 years
For a ship that has been neglected for 40 years, she is in amazingly good condition. The hull has been surveyed to be 98% of original (and overbuilt to begin with). It's amazing to see the machinery spaces as intact as they are. The superstructure is entirely aluminum, hence no rust above the main deck (the hull is steel). Yes, the interior is gutted, but if it hadn't been (for asbestos removal) no one would have touched the ship with a 10 foot pole. She can be saved.
I did this in 1999 as part of an art show for the Liverpool Bienneal and again in Chelsea, NYC. I installed a metal maze that let to a video projecion room. The video is 55min and was shot in one take. I wired an infared and dat recording system to a construction helmut and powered it with a lawn tractor battery. On the full length video it is clear the the journey in the bowels of the vessel have taken a toll on me it was around 100 degrees down there.
I must applud your work.. It is wonderful to see someone who would do this for the benifit of art, and knowledge... and shwoing those how bad it really is
Thank you for this video. My Grandparents sailed the Big U and the SS America on their trips to Europe. The closests I ever got to sail them was standing on their deck. LOL
It's amazing how intact it is. The engine room used to be festooned with asbestos insulation that was ripped out in the 90s
I wish there had been narration to this video.
To learn more about the ship and what is happening currently visit the SSUS Conservancy's web site. There you can find general information about the ship and the community that want to see her sail again. Also, an up coming documentary called "Lady in Waiting" will be airing on PBS in the next couple of months.
Very Cool, thank you for this awesome for of art
@woganworks Hey I'm just here watching your video and Eyewitness news just said man just paid 3million for her and is gonna rebuild it.. man that will be awsome ive looked at this beauty since towed back from France,what? 15yrs ago, when i worked at CSX on Del Ave, I will mos def buy me and wife tickets for the first voyage, hope to see you their! Thanks for video.
Nice vid!Would be nice to see the boiler rooms and steam generators,(Babcock and Wilcox)I think, the turbine room, GE's I believe, and the shaft alleys, with a man standing next to a shaft for size reference.Design speed of 38knots,I believe she made 42 on her maiden voyage. Great stuff.Thanx for posting!
Cool video. I think that ship needs a few more pipes, though...
It does look in surprisingly good shape for as long as it's been laid up.
i lived in Philly for a while and i never knew about the histopry this boat has...shoot ...id like to get on one day...nice vid..looks like something off ghosthunters lol
god i never had the nerves to walk through these huge rooms and floors without normal lightning and alone!
im almost scared watching this ;) , i never knew i am such a baby
thank you so much for this amazing video! I've been searching all over the internet for some deck plans, and now I can see the general idea of how they look like! If you visit my page, you'll see what I'm working on
this video is amazing it shocked me how thin the walkways were and it luks a bit eerie
Your closer then me, I'm in Oregon... be prepared to bring allot.
Great video woganworks. Are you sure that's the Big U though? The scale of the machinery appears to be a little small for half of a 240k shp plant. Check the size of the sootblowers, boiler gage glasses, electric motors powering the auxiliaries, and the SSTG. With 1000 psi steam the apparent size of that geneartor would be 1000kw at best, not nearly enough for a super liner.
Could you have mixed your videos up?
great footage,can you get some footage on the upper decks inside the ship ?
When are this video done?
Amazing. Hope she will once more go as passenger liner.
I think a nuclear power plant wold make her economic in 40 knots.
how did you get in ? thats incredable everything below decks is in tact ?
sweet video, how did you get to do that did you break into it? I live down the street and im thinking about going and walking the dock next to it, i guess well see how that goes.
Eh. Seen one engine room and you've seen them all. What I keep waiting for is the elusive interior of this ship. Why is everyone so reticent about showing what the passenger compartments looked/look like?
I wonder of the engines still are able to Work or if they can be made to Work i hope so she is still one of the fastest
@exTAO109
No, this is the Big U. Watch again.
I could not mix-up a journey like this.
this and the uss mount vernon/ ss washington are my favorite passenger ships built. if they do get rid of her, i say they sink her off hawaii by the saratoga.
A is for asbestos: interesting risk management issue if the ship hits the waves again?
+John Bullas The asbestos was all removed in 1974.
You might need to attach the props,too
@exTAO109
No. This is the Big U. Who could mix-up something like that?
NCL if The united states is shiped out will be doing a criminal offence. They said they are taking breakers offers though the city of philly has said that ship is not to be moved and is to be restored. so write your congress man or senator and make sure that if Ncl and Star do plan on moving the ss united states it is either to be restored and placed back in service or is to be moved to be restored less legal trouble that way
how were you able to get inside.
will theyt fix her
My parents were on this ship! Watch the video: Gertrude kerschner's Life Story at LadyRider2007 - thanks! :)
god u wouldent wana try to get out there in a hurry.
basicly what she needs in to be put into dry dock and her underneath seen to before she rots and sinks where she sits,if shes lookin rough where we can see above the water line,whats she like below the waterline.come on somone buy her and save her.if she was to sail again she would still be the fastest afloat but cannot see that happening.but dry dock is first step i think.
correction, the hull is 92% of original
thats a fire room , babcock and willcock steam boilers ,, shudders with the thought of cleaning that up , has to be two decks deep......
Ok, we need 356 other people now.
It's a terrible shame but she is far too far gone. Let her die with whatever dignity remains. Every day that passes is a humiliation to this proud ship. If her name had not been "United States" she would long since have been put out of her misery.
Fuel Oil was less that 50 cents a gallon when this ship first sailed. Burning it was never a concern for the original ship owners. A far cry from the $ 4.50 a gallon of " W " Bush's era when they'd loose money just sailing it through the harbor. We will never be sailing on her again. Like the nation she is named for the great ship is decayed and now a rusting hulk of its former self. Returning the ship to useful life would probably take a Billion Dollars in today's Monopoly Money, and recouping that money would not be possible.
hey hold the tourch pal a naval engineer just said she was sound
I'm please will it fire engine a parts
ME!
what is wrong with all of you? her restoration would create jobs and such. not to mention she is the only american oceanliner left when cruise liners still were considered art. are we just going to let her meet the tourch, is that what you want people to think about us americans
They gutted the interior back in the 90's, all we could do is show her off.
You can see how divers get lost in shipwrecks. I would buy your DVD but your just wondering round a rusty decreped old ship, where's the narration of what this was an what that is, you should go an visit people who worked on her an passengers to tell there experiences , That would be a much better watch than watching your
Wow you have GUTS ! i wouldnt do that for a million dollars ! Let alone step my foot on the deck ! Isnt it unsafe ? Or like what the word? Condemned?
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