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WFGibbs
First Class Passenger
Member # 469

posted 07-31-2000 10:17 PM

For some reason I was not able to post a message on Malcolm's thread using this username, so I thought I would start a new thread to at least make myself heard.

I appreciate the creativity, determination and passion that William Francis Gibbs had to build the perfect ocean liner.

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WFGibbs
First Class Passenger
Member # 469

posted 07-31-2000 10:41 PM

Just thought I'd post a few more photos of the BIG U.

Here's a nice shot from the bow in 1988.

This is one of the powerful shafts deep inside the hull of the BIG U. This picture was taken in 1979.

Here is the library before her interior was stripped away. 1979

The famous Navajo Room aboard the ss United States!

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WFGibbs
First Class Passenger
Member # 469

posted 07-31-2000 10:46 PM

One more cool shot of the Aft Funnel from the tip of the forward funnel. I had to nearly hang over the edge from the top of the forward funnel to get this shot.

People have asked me how I got up on top of the funnel...I used this door in the side of the funnel..

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WFGibbs
First Class Passenger
Member # 469

posted 08-01-2000 06:09 PM

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 08-01-2000 10:10 PM

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WFGibbs
First Class Passenger
Member # 469

posted 08-03-2000 06:21 PM

I thought people would be interested in seeing some of these photos???

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nathan
First Class Passenger
Member # 720

posted 08-03-2000 09:15 PM

The pics are great, Barryboat er, W.F. Gibbs. Did you happen to get any shots like these on your visit to the Norway?

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 08-04-2000 01:11 AM

Nathan, Yes I have very cool pictures of the Norway from the top of her mast, but I haven't posted a Norway page yet in the PhotoGallery of my web site. I'm going to have a section of the NORWAY and the Queen Mary.

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Vaccaro
First Class Passenger
Member # 465

posted 08-04-2000 03:54 AM

I really enjoyed the biggest part of this forum since I'm registered. I really learnt lot of things from peoples who have a great experience or documentations or analisys.
Everyone has its little part to bring and this is what it constitutes the strentgh of a "forum's community" like this one. Several peoples did and do lot of things, searches and spend lot of time to bring their little part.
But, as it is mentioned above, Barryboat and WFGibbs seem to be, as I asked the question few days ago, very close persons, so close that they are probably the same and unique person.
And I'm very bitter and discouraged when I see someone who does not respect the spirit of a fair forum. I even feel the other participants are scorned and not respected.
Sorry to say that because I'm not a polemic's afficionado, but when I saw this sort of thing: http://www.travelpage.com/disc/Forum3/HTML/000100.html
with someone who obviously plays with us, I'm really bitter... and I wonder if the real William Francis Gibbs would appreciated that.

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 08-04-2000 01:30 PM

Vaccaro, I wanted to create a new identity on the Travelpage, so I created WFGibbs too. I guess I was too obvious or something, because a few of the regulars figured it out right away. I suppose I have a writing style that is very recognizable. I think William Francis Gibbs would be flattered that someone would looked up to him and that they would create a screen name in honor of him, but you're right he probably wouldn't appreciate the slight deceptiveness in hiding behind a new identity and trying to fool people into thinking they are a different person. I'm sorry if I offended you Vaccaro. It was not my intention to offend anyone, I thought it would be fun to create a new identity.

I recently brought back WFGibbs because I thought it would be fun to bounce back and forth between screen names. I even fooled Joe, when I first created the screen name.

It was all in fun, and again I'm sorry for offending anyone.

Should I discontinue using WFGibbs? What do you think?

[This message has been edited by Barryboat (edited 08-04-2000).]

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sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 08-04-2000 01:44 PM

Barryboat - I may be stupid, but who is WFGibbs? I've never heard of him!

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 08-04-2000 02:58 PM

Hey guys this is a 'fun' forum, not Watergate! If folks want multiple identities, that's OK with me as long as they write interesting stuff! For example, I might not really be a guy from London, I could be William H. Miller!

I don't care who or what 'Barryboat' is, he has made many EXCELLENT contributions to this web site. His knowlege is second to none! Keep the great photographs and information coming Barry!

Malcolm (Bill)

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Barryboat
First Class Passenger
Member # 33

posted 08-04-2000 04:05 PM

Sympatico, WFGibbs or William Francis Gibbs was the man who designed the ss United States. I have a black & white photo of him posted above. He was a man who loved fire engines and ships. He was America's leading Naval Architect. He redesigned the Vaterland into the Leviathan. In 12 months his team produced a set of drawings (Blue Prints) of the Vaterland by measuring every inch of the vessel. The Germans, who lost the vessel to the Americans because of the war, insisted on an unbelieveable price of 1 million dollars for the original blue Prints of the ship. Gibbs had 100 naval draftsmen measure and study every inch of the ship to produce a new set of blue prints the hard way. After her conversion from the Vaterland to the Leviathan, and after being totally Americanized, she began a new life as a United States Line ship. Gibbs even snuck into the engine room of the Normandie and took notes. It was from all of Gibb's knowledge of ships that he built the ultimate liner, the ss United States!

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sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 08-04-2000 06:56 PM

Thanks Barryboat. Now I understand. I think it is quite funny that you also posted under WFGibbs. I certainly wouldn't have know it was you. Someone could have said "it's not nice to fool Mother Nature"!!

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Premier
First Class Passenger
Member # 1463

posted 09-12-2000 08:21 PM

I choose my username beacause I would like to go on Premier.They are not my favorite cruise line.I never even went on a Premier Cruises ship.(Maybe I should of chose Commodore.)

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