Passenger ships usually have a life-span of thirty years, maybe forty if they are lucky. Like any machine, they get too worn out to be worth repairing. This one went an amazing fifty-six just sitting around. It still had it's engines, but those had long since stopped working. All of the other interior fittings had been stripped out, leaving empty spaces.
Or you do it this way:
I've been on the battleship New Jersey which is across the river. It was impressive to realize that, if the main guns still worked, they could put shells into Trenton twenty miles away. The U.S. has a lot of faith in carriers, but there hasn't been much serious naval combat since Word War II. The Falklands War showed how vulnerable ships are to misses, but missile technology has come a long way in the last forty years.
