#towing

Another graphic I made last year and never got around to posting!

Roadside fire starts are increasing in prevalence and severity, especially where I am, so I wanted to make a graphic based around that. Played around with a lot of taglines, and really fell in love with this one.

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The Baltimorons Jay Duplass. 2025

Vehicle Pound 6715 Quad Ave, Baltimore, MD 21237, USA See in map

So yeah. The big news pulled me out of hiatus. If you haven't heard, the SS United States was on the move. After 30 years of sitting in limbo in Philadelphia, the plug has finally been pulled on the old liner. She will be sunk 30 miles offshore of Okaloosa Island in Florida to create an artificial reef for diving.

Under tow, the SS United States left Philly on Feb. 19 and traveled down the east coast of America, around the Florida coast, and then, keeping in tradition with being the fastest liner ever built, docked in Mobile, Alabama a few days ahead of schedule on March 3.

Over the following year, she will have her masts and cranes removed, all the paint will be sand blasted off, the boilers and engines will probably have to come out, her aluminum funnels and possibly parts of her superstructure will be saved for a future museum, but all other aluminum will have to be removed, and holes will have to be cut into her watertight compartments to ensure she sinks on an even keel.

It's a sad end, but at least it's better than being scrapped.

John “Wichita Bill” Noble (1874-1934, American) ~ Towing the Boat Ashore, 1917