Ok this might have been posted before and I didnt find it but here it is...

Bet ya didnt know that the Pride Of America partially sank during refitting.

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Edit: Copyrighted materials removed. RF

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Raoul Fiebig,

Jude,

I'm sorry, but I had to remove the picture and the text. Our forum guidelines ask for our users to please refrain from re-posting copyrighted materials from other web sites.

Thank you for your kind understanding. If possible, please post a link, instead, which is perfectly fine.

As for "Pride of America's" sinking during its construction, fellow forum member Stephan Giesen has posted a large number of photos of the incident on his web site.

so very sorry. I appologize. I thought by quoting my source it was ok.

here is the link to the whole website: http://www.cargolaw.com/presentations_casualties.html#Today

Does anyone have any artist's renderings or pictures of POA's original design before stretching or pictures of how it looked when it left Pascagoula? I’ve always wondered about this. The sites referenced on this thread seem to have more information on POA’s construction than any other I have found.

Here's a link to an early drawing, as it would have been built at Ingalls.
http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/USLines_New.html
and
http://www.ss.northropgrumman.com/press/news/00_03_09.html

A link to photos at Lloydwerft.
http://www.lloydwerft.com/e/auftraege/index.html

and
http://www.lloydwerft.com/e/auftraege/index.html

Thanks. Yesterday, I came across this model. They say it's based on the original American Classic configuration.

http://www.maritimereplicas.com/projectAmerica.htm