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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, 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 ...
Modern cruise ships are floating cities. Moreover, they are the products of a vast, ill-advised multi-continent industrial ...
The SS United States, a record-breaking American ocean liner from the 1950s, will take its final voyage from Philadelphia to the Gulf of Mexico this week.
As the ocean liner SS United States is being prepared for its final voyage, from Alabama to a site off Florida, we look back at what made it so important.
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 ...
When the SS United States was launched in 1952, it was the era of crossing the Atlantic by ship, and people wanted to do it fast. How fast? Very fast.
Built during the post-World War II engineering boom, the SS United States employed a world-class engine that made it the fastest trans-Atlantic oceanliner in history— still holding the speed ...
The SS United States—once dubbed ‘America’s flagship,’ and considered an American icon through the 1950s and ’60s—was towed into Mobile for an extended remediation before it's final ...
The SS United States Conservancy will be updating its website with information on the ship's museum and location where the ship will be sunk to become an artificial reef.
When the SS United States was launched in 1952, it was the era of crossing the Atlantic by ship, and people wanted to do it fast. How fast? Very fast.