Vote: (X) Preservation of S.S. Lurline.
I think this is the funniest thread because it was about efforts to set up the former Matson Lines steamer, S.S. Lurline, as a hotel/ship in San Francisco. Unexpectedly, the ship sank on its way to the breakers. Efforts to get the necessary funding to bring the ship to San Francisco had failed. As such, the ship left Tampa, Florida, purportedly to go the the wreckers in Pakistan, or India. I started a thread about it. Shortly after it left Flordia, it had to stop in Brazil, and my feeling was that something was in the works, i.e., that the ship might be headed for San Francisco, after all. Michael Standart didn't think so. We followed the ship on this thread for several weeks. At one point, the ship was reported to be headed for Mexico to have abestos removed from it. But then, unexpectedly, it was learned that the ship was rounding the Cape Of Good Hope, and taking on water. The earlier reports had been false. Finally, as Michael reported, the ship sank off South Africa. It's one of those threads that has a beginning, and a definite end. The fact that the ship sank is probably the best ---a better fate than the breakers. But it should have been brought to San Francisco. Too bad.
I think this is the funniest thread because it was about efforts to set up the former Matson Lines steamer, S.S. Lurline, as a hotel/ship in San Francisco. Unexpectedly, the ship sank on its way to the breakers. Efforts to get the necessary funding to bring the ship to San Francisco had failed. As such, the ship left Tampa, Florida, purportedly to go the the wreckers in Pakistan, or India. I started a thread about it. Shortly after it left Flordia, it had to stop in Brazil, and my feeling was that something was in the works, i.e., that the ship might be headed for San Francisco, after all. Michael Standart didn't think so. We followed the ship on this thread for several weeks. At one point, the ship was reported to be headed for Mexico to have abestos removed from it. But then, unexpectedly, it was learned that the ship was rounding the Cape Of Good Hope, and taking on water. The earlier reports had been false. Finally, as Michael reported, the ship sank off South Africa. It's one of those threads that has a beginning, and a definite end. The fact that the ship sank is probably the best ---a better fate than the breakers. But it should have been brought to San Francisco. Too bad.