The 58 year old, SS United States, built at Newport News, may be at risk of being scrapped but it now appears that the MV Doulos, the world’s oldest ocean-going passenger vessel, may not be making a trip to the breakers yard any time soon.  Her days as a passenger vessel are over but she was recently sold to a Singapore-based buyer permanently berth the ship and use it as a floating multiuse facility that could include a restaurant and a retail component.   The MV Doulos was built as the SS Medina in 1914 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company for the Mallory Steamship Company.  In recent years she has been owned by the German charity Gute Bücher für Alle (English: Good Books for All), and was used as a floating bookshop.

At 95 years old, Newport News-built MV Doulos again avoids scrapyard