The Circle Line formed in 1946 and bought the Sachem which became the flagship of their fleet, being renamed the Sightseer. The company offered tours around New York City. The ship was retired in the early 1980s and left at an abandoned pier in New Jersey.
In 1986, Robert Miller of Cincinnati was looking to buy an old steam yacht and found the ship in New York's Hudson River and bought it for $7,5000. It took ten days to repair ity and get seaworthy. While under repairs, pop singer Madonna used it in her "Papa Don't Preach" video.
Miller planned to bring the ship to a plot of land he had purchased in northern Kentucky along the Ohio River. He navigated the ship through the Great Lakes, down the Missisppi River to the Ohio River and finally got it to a creek on his property, about twenty miles from Cincinnati and here it remains, rusting away but a big must-visit site for kayakers.
Lots of pictures accompany the article.
So If In the Area, See a Very Historical Ship. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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