Click here to view British Pathe video of SS United State's record breaking maiden voyage
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that an agreement has been reached between Norwegian Cruise Line and the SS United States Conservancy, a preservationist group, to save the SS United States from the scrap yard. The Conservancy is reported to have agreed to pay NCL $3 million dollars for the ship. It has also been reported that NCL had received an almost $6 million dollar offer from a scrap yard but had agreed to work with the Conservancy instead. The offer by the Conservancy was made possible by a reported $5.8 million pledge by Philadelphia philanthropist H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest.
Famed Liner Steers Clear of Scrapyard
The SS United States was the fastest passenger liner ever built. Click here or on the image to the right to see footage of her first voyage where she easily broke the speed record for an Atlantic crossing. Thanks to David Hayes for pointing out the video.
The 
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Two species of Asian carp, the bighead and the silver, were imported in the US in the 1970s by catfish farmers to eat algae in ponds. In flood in the 1990s, Asian trout escaped in the Mississippi River basin have been multiplying wildly and heading north. A few days ago an 20 pound Asian bighead carp was caught by a fisherman in Illinois’s Lake Calumet, on the South Side of Chicago. That is north of the electric fences installed to stop the carp and only six miles from Lake Michigan.
In 1898, the 
An interested court case between a private salvor and the State of New York appears to have been settled in favor of the state. The salvor, Northeast Research, claimed the 19th century schooner, which it claims is the Caledonia.
It says something about our society that a missing prop from a classic movie, specifically Bruce, the mechanical shark from
Happy Solstice to All. One way that at least some New Yorkers mark the beginning of the summer is to observe or participate in the 
A section of upper New York harbor, just north of Ellis Island, has been taken over for the 
