SS United States was moved out of Philly yesterday, and I heard not one but two reporters on 6ABC say: "It was originally designed to transport troops and then was reimagined into a cruise liner..."
I wanted to claw my fucking eyes out.
- SSUS was not a "cruise liner," and certainly not "reimagined" as one. It was a purpose-built ocean liner. It was meant to make regular transatlantic crossings. Cruise ships are party limos; ocean liners are buses.
- It was not "designed to transport troops" (ok, technically it was, but the implication here is that its first purpose was as a troopship). It was a passenger liner, and part of the agreement with the U.S. government was that it be designed such that it *could* carry troops during war.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter, and I'm not mad that the news got something obscure like a ship's history wrong. What upsets me is, if they're not doing basic research about something trivial like that, what *other* research *aren't* they doing about, say, encroaching fascism?
Clarissa the Dogcow
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