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How a professional ship-sinker is about to turn a famous ocean liner into the world’s largest artificial reef The SS United ...
The SS United States has been docked at a South Philadelphia pier for nearly 30 years. The ship moved for the first time in 28 years from Pier 82 to Pier 80 on Friday at high tide as part one of ...
The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. But Coast Guard concerns ...
The SS United States, a technological marvel when it hit the water in 1952 and broke the transatlantic speed record, left Philadelphia Wednesday to begin its journey south to Mobile, ...
Christmas on the SS United States. Steven Perlin was born in Switzerland while his father was attending school there, he said. In December 1959, a 2-year-old Perlin, his brother and his mother ...
October 26, 2024 SS United States is destined to become an artificial reef off Florida. Here's a look at that process. It starts with towing the ocean liner from the Delaware River pier where it ...
The SS United States, a record-breaking 1950s ocean liner, may soon sail from Philadelphia to the Gulf. NPR explored this ship, a relic of the grand liners that once connected North America with ...
Admittedly, it could be too little, too late, but through the Antiquities Act of 1906, Trump would seemingly have the authority to declare the SS United States a protected historical landmark. The ...
The SS United States hit the water in 1952 as "an ambassador of America’s post-war industrial power and a technological marvel," the SS United States Conservancy website says.