Big Apple officials are fighting to relocate a historic 1950s-era ocean liner to New York City and restore it as a waterfront icon — but its owner hopes that idea goes down with the ship. Florida’s ...
RED HOOK — A coalition of preservationists and environmentalists is racing to save the SS United States, the largest and most famous ocean liner ever built in the United States. The celebrated vessel, ...
It’s a race against time. Okaloosa County in Florida plans to sink the SSUS and turn it into an artificial reef near the Gulf town of Dustin.
Who ever said moving a historic floating skyscraper would be easy? America’s flagship — the magnificent SS United States — was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from ...
He was given the ominous task of keeping the lights on and the lifeboats working as the doomed Titanic began to sink. Wigan electrician William Parr bravely kept working in the engine room even as the ...
(CNN) — From anchors aweigh to funnels ashore. As the historic SS United States gets ready to be converted into the world’s largest artificial reef off the coast of Florida, a new plan for an ...
Scuba divers may soon add an iconic ocean liner to their bucket lists. 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 'villains' of the Titanic: The Captain who was 'going too fast', the officer who took a crucial key and the 'coward' who jumped in lifeboat - but who was REALLY to blame? A 'prophetic' letter by a ...
A nearly one-thousand-foot-long ocean liner, called the SS United States, sailed past Port Everglades. The massive vessel, which still holds the transatlantic speed record that it set more than 70 ...