I remember being a passenger on the President when I was a kid back in the early 1950s. It was in New Orleans where we lived at the time. I'll never forget it.

Apparently, it has yet to be reassembled for lack of financing. Hard to imagine it will ever be in one piece again. It looked like a sloppy mess from the start and the work looked just as sloppy. I bet a lot of people lost money on this pipe-dream.

@QALibrary

3 жыл бұрын

A number of years ago it was cut up and sold for scrap - it was never put together again

@Skoda130

3 жыл бұрын

It probably just was a nice sensational TV show from the beginning.

@nightdan7096

3 жыл бұрын

@@QALibrary Not true. It's still in pieces in St Elmo waiting to be reassembled once financing comes through.

@fuckyomamafuckyosisterfuck6136

3 жыл бұрын

Wurd! This was a hot mess,, that piece of shit, slime ball salvage man, was under qualified, and took advantage of those gullible old ladies.

@gollywog6695

3 жыл бұрын

@@nightdan7096 It never will be put together. Its rotting, rusty where they left it. It is now just a heap of scrap.

Like the SS Admiral this river palace was turned into scrap metal I can't believe the amateurish methods used. As a retired Ship Yard Machinist this was a disaster from the get go.

@Z-e-r-0

3 жыл бұрын

half of it is till on the side of the scrap yard. its been there for so long you can see it on Google Maps

@davidbarnsley8486

2 жыл бұрын

@@Z-e-r-0 we’re about I can’t see it in saint elmo

The story of how you scrap a wonderful ship! 😢

So she paid for all his new equipment and he cut it up for scrap.

This is crazy, why didn't he just put this time and energy into restoring the boat to service?

@robertbrouillette6767

3 жыл бұрын

That would have been a much better idea.

@MD88Pilot

2 жыл бұрын

Cause thats not what the owners wanted.

Interesting idea, but as soon at you see they are using torches to "dismantle" you know its never going back together. also has OSHA ever heard of this guy?

@tundrawomansays5067

2 жыл бұрын

My exact thought. Not even wearing hard hats around these cables?! Not that they’d be particularly helpful when the cables snap and cut your head off-decapitation isn’t a good look on anyone.....

"Bad investment" was the first thing I thought and after reading the comments; apparently I was right. Sad for the investors and the mover wasn't any help. I wonder if he lost anything from a job so horribly run?

@KevinFields777

2 жыл бұрын

A great idea but badly executed.

A perfect example of a contractor in way over his head, I couldn't believe what I was watching. Had the owners went to a contractor who had basic ship/boat construction knowledge this project would likely be complete. Instead the current owner reports that roughly 50% of the original materials are destroyed and because of the mess made of the vessel most investors have pulled out and the land for the build site is no longer available. Ironically it has been moved to a location that is literally across the road from a large scrap yard which is most likely where the SS President will be going. Watching how completely disrespectful the original contractor was throughout the deconstruction process it was clear that this project was doomed.

12 years later it still sits in pieces rusting away, so sad.

I love that animation where the crane falls onto it and it completely sinks into the river bottom it's stuck on top of.

This stupid woman cost her poor mother in law her life savings and Jeremy was definitely the wrong person for the job. And he is dangerous, reckless. He certainly doesn't have the math or engineering skills for this type of work so he guesses.

@borod5571

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, that guy was sued so many times in the New Orleans area, after Hurricane Katrina

@jeffhyche9839

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I'm not the only one that saw this as a cluster fuck from the moment it started.

@bBrain

3 жыл бұрын

I mean are ya sure some of that wasn't played up for the show? That and editing? I mean, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, it appears he got the job done without any major failures with people or equipment. Apparently he knows to some level what he's doing. Meh my only point is the show seemed to be edited and he seemed to play up the "exciting" points.

I would of fired that man after week 1. it'll never be 1 piece again. if it does it wont be the same boat. movers and locals have probably stolen items from it, scrappers probably hitting it up, not to mention the millions (going off his 500k estimate of the crane) of dollars it will cost to make it whole. you wasted this towns money dude.

Docu-drama of unprofessional clowns. She’s sits today without ‘investors’ for 12+ years inland, unrestored, as is and next to a metal salvage yard.

I tip my hat to that woman. Take an idea with a historic treasure and be so inspired that you lay everything on the line

@flyjarrett

3 жыл бұрын

Except she left the pieces to rust in that field for the last 12 years. Not much of a visionary when you run out of money part way through the project.

@evanekstrand2124

3 жыл бұрын

@@flyjarrett I didn't know the follow up. Thanks for the info!

@izzoboy91

3 жыл бұрын

Yasss really sad it's sitting across the street from TNT recycling in Effingham Illinois you can see it on Google Maps

@Z-e-r-0

3 жыл бұрын

@@izzoboy91 thanks! i was looking for it to see what was left. not much. probably not even 1/4 of the boat any more

@terrypbug

3 жыл бұрын

She is a fool good lord

Those cables look like they haven't seen grease or even oil in 5 yrs When the interior cable strands are rusty, ah, it might be a good idea to replace them. So far none of the participants in this move have impressed me. A tug boat operator that doesn't know what's, what, oh boy.

I never lost at a casino so fast as I did at the President - Blow it to bits

This makes me furious. Why didn't I dont know actually restore her instead of basically scraping her. Screw jeremey he wasn't the right person for the job.

Seems like these guys were the most economical choice for her..

No way this will every be able to be re-assembled to a point at which an engineer can guarantee the structural integrity so occupants can be allowed on it.

The contractor in charge seems to be a genuine chancer ! Wrecking a wreck !!!

Always love a tv program with narration over exaggerating the most simple and mundane tasks to make it sound difficult or even dangerous. Moving that boat requires hardly any skill set. I do this sort of thing every single day for a career that's getting too old.

Why wouldn't 8.2 million pounds of steel sitting in thick Mississippi River mud break a couple of cables. Why would you not use a plasma cutter so you can make nice clean cuts? It's suppose to be rebuilt not cut like you're scrapping it.

I've seen this over and over and over again. Someone trying to restore a huge vessel for something other than what it was built for. Everyone of them has gone broke trying. Check out the ferry boat kalakala of Seattle Washington for a classic example.

@MakeItWithCalvin

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. It is all a great idea on paper but as painful as it sounds, some things are not worth restoring. It would have been more cost-effective to make a replica that was up to modern safety standards but kept the flair of the original. Just my $0.02

A pile of rusting scrap metal today in St Elmo. Never was assembled.

@virgillasher5656

3 жыл бұрын

No way ?

@virgillasher5656

3 жыл бұрын

I will give you half the money if you can get it for scrap metal and I will move it

@jeffhallel8211

3 жыл бұрын

@@virgillasher5656 Watch out for lead paint.

@mfzb0912

3 жыл бұрын

Yup still sitting there.. they spent all that money just to rip it apart. That sucks

@misshiss4040

3 жыл бұрын

thats such a suprise im gonna have a heart attack..lmfao...i mean it sounds characteristic of st elmo....lol....they proly would have more to show for if any of them had an ounce of motivation and gumption lol

someone put the singer out of his misery,

@Thebigmanmetaldetecting

3 жыл бұрын

That singing crap does my head in

@nashvilleslim

3 жыл бұрын

I bet some Brit wrote that stupid song.

@300373330

3 жыл бұрын

@@nashvilleslim it wasn't written... no-one could be that tuneless... no English person at any rate...

@nashvilleslim

3 жыл бұрын

@@300373330 I disagree, maybe not you necessarily but you know older English folk eat up that Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and wild west shit. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if an English man sang it trying to sound like a blues singer. I jest btw

Should have hired a Dutch Salvage Company.....they’re the professionals.

Once you mess with s ship's sheer, its over, really. This ship was never going to come back together after this. There are good examples of preserved liners, and even with the SS United States at least she's in one solid piece. Where the pieces lie now vandals have stolen so much of what was too heavy to lift its cosmically tragic. Also, its hard to transition from moving things on land to moving things from river to land.

I'm sitting here crying for this boat it's a sorry shame

@johnpaquin8041

3 жыл бұрын

as i understand that the now owner doesn't have the money to put the boat back together at this so i feel that it will never be put back together but i hope l'm wrong if and when they do put her back together if they ever some poeple start off withgod intensions but when they run out of money the project end there and my feeling that that is what may happen here but if they do get it back together there plans are to make it in to a resturant of her fare from thr water and she'll never be on the river ever again thats why i cry big tears for her as i thing what would the boat herself want and i thing she'd want to be back on the river doing she thing if i knew of her befor this video and that she already had this new owner i would and or may tryed to do something about her ive been restoring old cars trucks motor cycles and yes boats my hole life and i have been looking for a big boat project to work on for my retirement and this is a little bigger than i had in mind but if i knew of she sooner i would have liked to restore this boat would have taken me 4 or 5 years but i could have got it done what i would have done was to move on to her and lived on her so i could have been there every day to work on her till she was done i may made a resturant out of her but a resturant on the river and i i would set that to on dinner cruzes with itso i cry for as shes been taken from the river were she's lived her life to date

I watched this today. Cutting up this old dame was a travesty and the owner Campbell, had no idea what he was doing. The money wasted on getting this ship inland to a small town barely visible could have been spent on a dry dock complete rebuild and refloated for another 100 years. You can read a report on the latest developments by doing a Google search.

Im no mover, boat builder or river man, but If the guy put a coffer dam just at the back of the boat to each river bank, then pumped water into the now man made lake water levels would rise and refloat the old boat to its required position/ either leave in the coffer dam till jobs finished or drain the man made lake out to real time water levels then remove the coffer dam - job done.. But thanks for the video/ Ian -- UK

Say what you want but she wanted to do something good for her home town. He, however inept, moved the boat. If there’s a villain it’s the singer.

You can currently rent the only room. The Presidential Suite. :)

Long before the idea to move and reassemble a good naval architect and consulting engineering firm should have been consulted. It’s the reverse of building a Liberty Ship.

You cut up a boat that was to be reassembled as a lawn ornament, should have left it in the damn water and restored it there, what a travesty

To watch the desecration of such a Historic ship truly disheartening😢😢such great memories on the St. Louis River front seems to me all the money wasted dismantling And desecrating her could have been spent keeping her a float in the river🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️

Looks insane from the start. They could have salvage a few parts and attached it to a building for a fraction of the cost.

What a waste. Still in pieces. Worth more in scrap value.

A tragedy is an understatement. It was the laste passenger sidewheeler in NA.

He should have dredged out the inlet first.

It's not even in St Elmo anymore! It's still in pieces north of Effingham IL.

@Z-e-r-0

3 жыл бұрын

yea cuz in 2011 they took the historic paperwork from the town cuz it had sat there for 2 years in pieces. the government counted it as a loss

@brandonmoen3632

3 жыл бұрын

Where at exactly?

if its mud underneath the boat why not dredge the mud ?...

Cutting her up was the most idiotic decision Jeremy did. He needs to be sued!

@scottpecora371

2 жыл бұрын

For what. Guys like Jeremy move from one disaster to another loosing money on each one but hoping the volume will keep them in business

27:15 on a cell while moving a 10000lb object above your crews heads.. wow..

@bBrain

3 жыл бұрын

i mean video editing... easy to make it look however you want.

What a Grand Ship she was. What a shame. So much History was made on that ship. So many musicians put on their best shows on that river boat.

That ship was built with an Iron framework, not steel ! Iron can be cut, but can not be welded back together. If you look at the video carefully, you can see the rivets that hold the couplings to the iron columns and beams. I would be surprised if any reassembly took place. They may have used the bow ( alone , or with a section of the side) as decorative front of a new building. The alternative is fabricating some where on the order of 10k new repair couplings to try and reassemble the ship. before even thinking about the 1000's of man hours in decorative carpentry, flooring and finishing the ship to original specs.

Been on that ship a few times , I’m glad they remodeled the Admiral . It’s a casino ship right next to the Arch .

I was like 'where is part 2' and I guess it may be awhile

@Z-e-r-0

3 жыл бұрын

lol or never

Sounds like some Ozark shit to me

None of these guys have been around "big boats" much I take it? 12:58 Nobody HAD to get wet if they'd used a thinner throwing line with a special knot on the end called a "Monkey's fist", then use that line to pull a bigger line... A Monkey's fist is a handy spherical shaped knot with a hollow core, where you can stuff something like a tennis ball ETC as you tie the knot for a bit of added weight so it throws farther and also will float. The REALLY old school ones used a small glass ball like is used in old fishing net floats ETC, the line from the knot wrapping cushions things too so the glass doesn't break very often.

You sure get what you pay for when you go with the cheapest bid for the job. I wouldn’t trust these people to move my car

How is this ‘the most famous boat’ when I’ve never heard of it? I’ve seen the American, signed petitions to save the Delta Queen, and have heard the Sprages steam whistle, but have yet to have heard of this one. 🤷‍♀️ Guess now I have.

Love to see it when finished

@Itsaboutthewaterlife

3 жыл бұрын

You need to read some of the other comments here. They'll tell you what happened to it.

The largest ever built was the Sprague. Built in 1902 for a coal company latter bought by John D. Rockefeller to be used to push barges of oil up and down the Mississippi River. He bought it in 1922 and operated it until 1946 when the advent of diesel motors made it obsolete. The last known captain to pilot of the vessel was LL Bailey, my grandfather.

They could have built a better hotel on land for cheaper

I celebrated my 21st birthday on the President in Davenport back in 1998. It's too bad it ended up like this. They should have restored it, not dismantled it.

Awesome video!😄😄😄😄😄

Lol only running a 2 part line in that block should have set it up to a 3 or 4 part slows it down and more lifting capacity but more control of the pick.

Comments says "he has to rethink his plans ". Yes but there was no thinking at the first place 😂🤣😂😱

You don’t ever bring a banana on a boat every captain worth his salt knows this. Bad omen if I believed in that crap lol

This famous vessel. Really. Then why was it rusting away in St. Louis? Why was it not functional. Why was it such a mess. . What on earth did anyone think would happen in some little backwater far from a river. This is like one of those steam locomotives that is SAVED by a museum to sit out in the weather, unattended, rusting away until it become an ugly mockery of what once was. What is a boat doing on dry land? Boats don't belong on dry land. There is no attraction to a boat on dry land. Too many of these historic vessels have ended up being scrapped. No one gives a damn. You could likely have built a hotel faster for less money than move this thing to nowhere for nothing.

The Mississippi queen is the most famous steam ship here. I've never even heard of the ss president. Did they not try to use the tides to their advantage to move it to dry dock?

@sarahbrown1890

3 жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly.

@ttww1590

3 жыл бұрын

They're about 600 miles away from waters impacted by tides. They could change berths, dredge that birth, or wait till spring. Water levels are hard to predict and some years break from the more common seasonal pattern.

@cleverusername9369

2 жыл бұрын

The Mississippi River isn't affected by tides as far upstream as St Louis

WOW~ Very interesting. People have more money than brains

The whole reason I stopped watching Tv was shows like this. Somehow I still got sucked into watching this thinking the whole time these fools would never have a chance of putting it back together.. 12 years later and it is just a pile of scrap metal.

@KevinFields777

2 жыл бұрын

This is a fun show to watch, I like it. This is the first time I've ever seen it end with what was essentially a disaster planned from the start.

Spent a few bucks in the casino when the boat was docked at Davenport.

too much theatrics. make believed problems. always no time and will they make it. over acting scrkpt. the f... unwatchable.

@thereissomecoolstuff

3 жыл бұрын

You ever move a 90 year old huge steamboat? Neither did anyone else in this story. Stfu

Mad, the whole harebrained idea is nuts, and got more insane with every passing second of this rather morbid film; that I sadly watched to the end…

what a sad end to such a amazing ship

Completely ruined a historic landmark.

30:20 tell all

No work boots, hard hats etc. And a child on the job site. How is he in business?

@Itsaboutthewaterlife

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I used to be a rigger at a shipyard. I would have been fired immediately for even participating in such a fiasco.

@patricksterling7389

3 жыл бұрын

Think I saw them standing under suspended loads a couple times also.

Something clicked in my brain. There was this Stevie Ray Vaughan gig in New Orleans back in the 80's and I remembered it was on an old paddle wheel. Low and behold the southern Illinois idiots chopped it up and dropped it in a bean field rusting away and destroyed a historic monument in the process. Taken off of the national register because of these history destroying buffoons. OMFG. This should have been redressed and sailed for another 50 years. Oh...shame. Check out the Badger steamer. She still runs ferry on good old Lake Michigan. Great trip she is...

Wow they destroyed a paddel wheeler i know i could of done it for half the cast he never put it back together

Lady i think it might not be best investment but its a gorgious ship if you can get it to town im shour it will deff put town on the map if it can be done

What? A bunch of excavators can pull harder than tugs?

do they still make steamboats or paddle wheel boats,now those would make great live a boards

Its a shame a boat like that has come to this ashame it ever got so neglected .

where id it located i cant find it on google maps anywhere

Who in the hell is the target marker for a Riverboat permanently on the hard?

The voice Mr narrator the voice

What not to look for in a contractor, hand's down....

It's a shame from start to finish an amateur, I guess he didn't charge for that mess. I am so sorry for the lady who saw her savings wasted. Es una verguenza de principio a fin un aficionado, supongo que no cobró por ese desastre. Lo siento mucho por la señora que vio sus ahorros desperdiciados

Man what a butcher job they did on that thing. It would have taken years to weld that all back together again and it would have just looked like junk.

Who is the singer and the song, thought it was awesome.

I'm all for saving the president, good files your way

This was so idiotic; I can't believe somebody bought into this idea. Why not just build an entirely new hotel or replica of the ss for even less than $4m?

Amazing👍 show👍🔥📺

Never saddle a dead horse...

Its not even monster move its and ship wrecking they do it off indian coast with men with much more talent making 2cents pr hour cauld ship breakers

Someone with a brain should have bought this and made it a riverfront attraction somewhere,another loss of a great piece of history

Children playing games. Dude might have money but he sure doesn't know what the hell he's doing. There was no reason for grounding in the first place. The rest of the video was a comedy skit.

@elgoog7830

3 жыл бұрын

I thought it was all around embarrassing. What a massive waste of time and money.

Being stuck in the dry dock the ship is trying to tell it does not want to be taken out of the water and it could not be take out of the water but only for the haul to clean serviced and put it back in to the water and this boat is ship could be restored and put back in to service once again the steam engine restored to working order and the rest of this river boat restored this ship could not be taken to somewhere on land to be green as a hotel but it could be restored as what it is it's a River boat and it could be 7sed for that the person who wants this taken out of the water is a but hole and meany more 4 letter words in my mind

omg this was in 2009???? they took its NHL designation in 2011. i wish i had the money to just throw away like this. dont tell me the town people paid for it at a population of 1600 then

FROM BOAT TO SCRAP STEEL

Too bad it never happened. She is all scrap now and much of her has been sold off to scrappers. Some of it still exists in Effingham, IL where the remaining parts are rusting in the open. What was the last sidewheeled steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River is now a pile of unrecognizable rubble, mostly gone, to never exist again. The owner won’t sell anything saying it will still happen, however, with most the steel gone, that is a pipe dream at best. Farewell old girl, you take a great deal,of history with you.

Monumental task, brilliant execution 👍

@everythingships8153

3 жыл бұрын

Its still in pieces. 12 years later. Bad plan.

@realtimequickie

3 жыл бұрын

@@everythingships8153 Oh ok !! That's sad

@ttww1590

3 жыл бұрын

@@realtimequickie Bad plans, horrible execution.

The ice is saying don't take this boat out 9of the water

It's very sad to watch it now. Sad end for nice steam ship documented, nothing more.

Its sitting on the mud and they keep showing it sinking.

@thomasturner7111

3 жыл бұрын

i thought that too and why not dredge the mud from underneath the boat to slip it to where it should be cheers...

Either they didn't have enough money to get a qualified mover, or This Jeremy guy is the only one idiotic enough to try and move a fair sized ship... Away from water..