NEED A POST-ELECTION WEEK DRINK?
TRY THIS SS UNITED STATES INSPIRED COCKTAIL
Election Day 2020 has come and gone. It’s been a long week but everyone agrees, the SS United States must be saved. Now here is the perfect offering to help ease your post-election hangover.

Passengers traveling aboard America's Flagship, including longtime Conservancy supporters, the late Jim and Frieda Green (pictured here), had their choice of 16 kinds of Champagne and 49 types of Scotch. Now, intrepid Conservancy supporter and graphic designer, Greg Shutters, has developed a special cocktail, dubbed "The American Flagship," using ingredients from a bipartisan group of states. Try it for yourself and let us know what you think. (And of course please remember to drink responsibly.)
The American Flagship Cocktail
1.5 oz Laird’s Straight Applejack 86 or Laird’s Bottled-in-Bond Apple Brandy (New Jersey & Virginia)
1.5 oz Southern Comfort 100 Proof  (Kentucky)
1 oz Cranberry Juice (Massachusetts & Wisconsin)
0.5 oz Lemon Juice, strained (California & Arizona)
1 tsp Maple Syrup, dark amber (Vermont, New York & Maine)
3 dashes Peychaud’s Bitters (Louisiana)
Shake all ingredients on ice, then strain into a large, chilled cocktail coupe glass. Twist a piece of lemon peel over the glass and rub around the rim to release the oils. 

Now raise your glass to the classic toast always given by the SS United States' designer, William Francis Gibbs:
"To everything you want doubled, good health and to the Big Ship."
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Final Painting in Series Featuring America's Flagship
This incredible painting, by renowned maritime artist Robert G. Lloyd, is based on a description from a navigating officer of an eastbound crossing of the SS United States, on Christmas Day, 1960, who recalled, “Having passed the Ambrose Light outward from New York, we immediately started pitching into heavy swells. There was a deep depression north of Cape Cod with winds from the stern regularly reaching storm force 11. For four days the ship pitched heavily into huge waves, at times we guessed between 40 and 50 feet high. The storm stayed with us most of the crossing but we gradually left it behind and although it was sometimes uncomfortable, we arrived in Southampton only four hours late. We managed to maintain an average speed of over 26 knots the whole crossing."


MORE FROM THE SS UNITED STATES CONSERVANCY
Watch Ahoy with David Perry on YouTube
Ahoy! SS United States Conservancy West Coast Chapter Co-Chair David Perry recently sat down (virtually) with Conservancy President Susan Gibbs and founding board member Mark B. Perry (no relation) to talk about the Conservancy's efforts to save America's Flagship.

Watch it here to learn about the Big U, the important work being done by the Conservancy and how supporters can get involved.  
David Macaulay Talks SS United States
World-renowned author-illustrator David Macaulay's childhood trip aboard America's Flagship made a lasting impact on his life.

In this video created for the Norman Rockwell Museum's recent exhibition featuring illustrations from Macaulay's Crossing on Time and items from the Conservancy's curatorial collections, he describes the ship as "an icon of a period of time" and reflects on the dedication of ship designer William Francis Gibbs.

THE BIG U CONTINUES TO INSPIRE...
"This is an important piece of not just American or nautical history, but also a groundbreaking piece of technology and design that should be safeguarding for the foreseeable future." -
SS United States Conservancy Museum Planning & Curatorial Survey Respondent