A federal judge has ordered the caretakers of the 70-year-old SS United States to move it from its pier in Philadelphia by 12 September or lose possession of the vast ocean liner known as the “Queen of the Seas”.
“You’re not entitled to be at the pier forever,” the US district judge Anita Brody told a conservancy body on Monday, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. The judge then threatened to hand over the giant rotting ship – known locally as south Philadelphia’s “Ikea boat” – to the owners of the pier.
