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The Conservancy’s New York Working Group will unveil its “Save Our Ship” fundraising and awareness campaign at a screening of SS United States: Lady in Waiting on Thursday evening, March 11th at the National Academy on Fifth Avenue and 89th Street. The event will be held from 7 to 10PM in the Museum’s Huntington Room, a beautiful [...]
Photo courtesy of The Mark Perry Collection and the SSUSC Legacy Project
February 20, 2010 – The SS United States Conservancy’s latest news update has been released. To read, PLEASE CLICK HERE. To subscribe to our email list, please CLICK HERE.
Photo copyright Benicek
February 17, 2010 – Over at LiveJournal.com, a user named Benicek posted a photograph of the SS United States in Southampton and a shot of the QE2 taken on the same day in 1969 by their grandparents. Given that the Big U was retired from service that year, this may have been one [...]
February 17, 2010 – In keeping up with the many ways people receive information today, the SS United States Conservancy has established a Twitter account. On their site, you can search SS_UnitedStates or CLICK HERE to follow our updates.
‘The Big U’ copyright Craig Billow
February 15, 2010 – The SS United States Conservancy is honored to announce that Philadelphia photographer Craig Billow has generously donated a signed print of his award-winning photograph ‘The Big U’ to be auctioned at the upcoming New York screening of SS United States: Lady in Waiting on March 11. [...]
The Conservancy’s New York Working Group will unveil its “Save Our Ship” fundraising and awareness campaign at this screening of SS United States: Lady in Waiting on Thursday evening, March 11th at the National Academy on Fifth Avenue and 89th Street. The event will be held from 7 to 10PM in the Museum’s Huntington Room, a [...]
February 8, 2010 – Mark Perry, a founding Conservancy board member and producer of the acclaimed documentary SS United States: Lady in Waiting, was honored Saturday afternoon by the Southern California chapter of the Steamship Historical Society of America aboard the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Named “Local Commodore of the Year” for [...]
