Comments on: Aquarama headed for the scrap heap?

By: Don

Don — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:16:05 +0000

Please stop any destruction to the beautiful ship Marine Star “Aquarama”. There more people than you can imagine who have a love for that ship and the cities of Cleveland, Detroit, Buffalo should do something to save it. That is a great piece of Great Lakes history and should be restored and used. Even as a Great Lakes museum that would be a huge addition to the waterfront that would make money and educate people about Great Lakes shipping and history. It is nothing but total foolishness to lose that ship, or scrap it.

By: Evan Quick

Evan Quick — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:14:03 +0000

I just found out the Aquarama was sent to Turkey to be killed.How horrifying the sites of men with turbins holding cutting torches.They have no fond memories of her which makes things worse.
I cried because I admired her in the 90s in the Windsor slip.
Why couldnt she have been beached somewhere ?

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:31:25 +0000

I grew up in Muskegon and always thought the Aquarama was a fugly lump of a ship. Not one bit aesthetically pleasing like the Milwaukee Clipper or South American or Alabama. Totally out of scale for the Great Lakes. Not sorry to see that one go.

By: kathy kent

kathy kent — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:01:52 +0000

Let’s just forget the better times in the United States of which this ship is a part. She was beautiful sitting in the Detroit river in 1957. Fifty years ago we could enjoy rides down the river on a Sunday afternoon. Now we are only allowed to run on the hampster wheel each day. Sad, sad, sad.

By: Scott F

Scott F — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:19:14 +0000

As of 7-18-07 The Aquarama has dissapeared from Fuhrman blvd

By: Kathy

Kathy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:23:14 +0000

I hate seeing the uss Aquarama go for scarp,I have went on this ship in Detroit,too bad they cant fix this ship to something else just like they did with the Bob Lo boat back in Detroit.They should fix this ship to a casio ship and bring it back to Detroit.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:17:01 +0000

I like that boat it would be cool if they could fix it up but why its a hoopdee tear it up !!!! they should tear down the cargill elevator along with it a perfect spot for a hotel and casino

By: Eric P.

Eric P. — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:58:51 +0000

Remove that garbage scow and melt it down. Why was it brought here in the first place?

By: Lynne Sestak

Lynne Sestak — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:21:15 +0000

Somebody needs to do something before it’s too late!! I’ve tried contacting people in Cleveland to no avail. She can’t go for scrap, she’s too beautiful a ship!! Can’t we all get together somehow and do something???

By: In da Buff (Buffalo, New York)

In da Buff (Buffalo, New York) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:57:57 +0000

The dream no longer in port…

Derek Punaro has been following the Aquarama for some time now…well not physically following the ship because it really hasn’t moved from its home on Fuhrman Boulevard in years.
It looks like the ship will leave port soon heading for the sc…