A nice video dedicated to the flagship of the American Merchant Marine currently rusting away in Philadelphia.  It's rather embarrassing that this country can find the resources to preserve ten or more battleships and many other lesser warships, but it can't come up with enough money to restore or at least preserve from slow disintegration the only remaining ocean liner built by the United States and which bears our country's name.

She was the engineering wonder of her age when she took the Blue Ribbon from the Queen Mary and never looked back.  No ship has ever beaten her speed records to this day.  Everyone who was anyone wanted to cross the pond on "The Big U"  A cultural and social icon of a bygone era left to rot. She is the last of her kind.  When she is gone there are no more left.  What a shame.