Technical difficulties and projected high costs have scuttled a plan to reconstruct the historic ocean liner SS United States and return it to sea as a luxury cruise ship. After a six-month feasibility study, Crystal Cruises, which had announced its intention to buy and retrofit "America's ...
Home All Cruise Lines Track the SS United Statesvia reddit user historicalharborsytThe iconic SS United States began its final journey, leaving its dock in Philadelphia after sitting there since 1996. On Monday, February 17, Tuesday February 18, Wednesday February 19th, it will be towed down ...
Now, some six months later, the cruise line said its intensive $1 million evaluation of the SS United States has uncovered insuperable technical and commercial challenges preventing the record-breaking and storied Big U’s return to liner service. The study saw a team of maritime experts and en...
AP Photo The SS United States cruise ship in seen in New York City harbor, June 1, 1962. "This is the most famous ship that didn't sink," said Susan Gibbs, executive director of the SS United States Conservancy. "We all know the Titanic and this spectacular, maiden voyage catastrophe...
Photo of the SS United States taken from The Spirit of Philadelphia cruise ship While the United States was the last superliner to hold the Blue Riband, she eventually lost the eastbound transatlantic record in 1990 to Hoverspeed Great Britain, an Incat-built Norwegian-owned wave-piercing ...
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A fundraising cruise dedicated to saving America’s Flagship has raised $100,000 for the cause. Once America’s fastest and most glamorous ocean liner, the SS United States has spent years away from her former glory in an escalating state of disrepair, at dock in Philadelphia, out of commiss...
ABOARD SS UNITED STATES - The world's fastest ocean liner, which hasn't sailed in more than four decades, has received what may be a permanent stay of execution, literally hours before its luck seemed to have run out. The ship, which sits at a Philadelphia mooring, had its maiden...
A deal has been brokered to save the historic liner SS United States, with full details scheduled to be announced in New York City on Thursday, February 4, 2016. Once the queen of the express liners, and the fastest, safest and biggest passenger liner in history, the SS United States ...
History of the SS United States The ocean liner was built in Newport News, Virginia between February 1950 and June 1951. Its maiden voyage was July 3, 1952, from New York to La Harve, France and South Hampton, UK. It holds the record forthe fastest transatlantic cruise ship crossing, bot...