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 moving operation began. Today, the nation's sole surviving ocean liner left...
The SS United States (also known as "The Big U") is an ocean liner built in 1952 for the United States Lines. At 53,329 gross tons, she is the largest ocean liner to date built entirely in the United States and is still the fastest liner ever built. In 1952, on her maiden voyage...
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 moving operation began. Today, the nation's sole surviving ocean liner left...
Final Harbor for Queen of Sea: Ignominy; 1950s Liner SS United States, Famed for Speed, Faces ScrapheapDon Phillips
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 fo...
Philadelphia, South Beach, and Fort Lauderdale are just a few places sharing photos of the former luxury ocean liner as it makes its way to Alabama for environmental remediation. The SS United States is towed at sunset Thursday past Key West, Fla., headed to Mobile, Ala., where it will ...
Built in 1952 for the United States Lines, the SS United States was unlike any other ocean liner. She had been designed from the outset to serve as both a transatlantic ferry and as a troop and hospital ship in time of war. Her design was a military secret and her power plant similar...
The famous ocean liner SS United States has started her final journey, leaving her long-time dock in Philadelphia. After nearly three decades at Pier 82, the ship was carefully moved in preparation for a 14-day tow to Mobile, Alabama, where she will undergo environmental remediation before bei...
Massive SS United States ocean liner finally set to leave Philadelphia before being sunk in FloridaMoving day is finally here for the SS United States, a massive ship that once broke the transatlantic speed record on its maiden voyage but has sat dormant in Philad...
The SS United States has beendocked 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 moving operation began. Today, the nation's sole surviving ocean liner will leave the...