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 ...

Yes, the SS United States is bigger than the Titanic by 100 feet. At 990 feet, it remains the largest passenger ship ever built in America, according to its website.

Seventy-two years ago the fastest ship in the world at the time made its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

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 ...

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, ...

The SS United States is going to set sail for the final time in the coming days. After nearly 30 years in Philadelphia, the historic 53,000-ton ship is back on track to being sunk and becoming the ...

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 ...

SS United States is currently docked at Pier 82 along Delaware Avenue, just north of the Walt Whitman Bridge. A new date for the move hasn't been announced yet.

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.