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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 was officially decommissioned in 1969 as air travel gained popularity. For years, it was docked in South Philadelphia while the SS United States Conservancy deliberated its fate.
The SS United States arrived in Alabama at the beginning of March following a 12-day tow from Philadelphia’s Delaware River, where it has spent nearly three decades.
It was overshadowed by the 990-foot SS United States that set sail in July 1952, which was as tall as a skyscraper in New York City if stood on its end. The Titanic? 882.75-feet long.
An illustrated look: How SS United States, bigger than Titanic, will become world's largest artificial reef The county argues the New York coalition's claims are baseless. "(The group) asks this ...
The SS United States delivered an incredible 240,000 horsepower and a top speed of 44 mph. Eight oil-fired steam boilers fueled these turbines with over 1,000 psi of pressure, ...
The SS United States arrived in Alabama at the beginning of March following a 12-day tow from Philadelphia’s Delaware River, where it has spent nearly three decades. Okaloosa County was able to take ...
The SS United States, a nearly 1,000-foot (305-meter) vessel that shattered the trans-Atlantic speed record on its maiden voyage in 1952, is going through a monthslong scouring at the Port of ...
The SS United States, a nearly 1,000-foot vessel that shattered the trans-Atlantic speed record on its maiden voyage in 1952, is going through a months-long scouring at the Port of Mobile in Alabama.
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 S.S. United States is a retired luxury ship that last sailed in 1969. Later this year, it could become an artificial reef in the waters off the Florida Panhandle.