The U.S. Coast Guard has reported that positive progress has been made in the preparations for the SS United States’ ...
“We were on a kind of furious search for an alternate parking spot,” explained Susan Gibbs, president of the SS United States Conservancy, the nonprofit that has owned the ship in recent decade ...
Owner of the vessel, Okaloosa County, have been caught in a row with the US Coastguard who previously stated the ship "may not have suitable stability for the intended transit and presents a hazardous ...
A legendary cruise ship bigger than the Titanic that has ... would see the 1,000-foot SS United States transferred from Philadelphia to Florida’s Destin-Fort Walton Beach. It would then be ...
The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. But Coast Guard concerns ...
PHILADELPHIA - The SS United States is preparing to make its journey ... tugboat crews will attach themselves to the ship ...
Janet Zolot's cruise to the Caribbean aboard the SS United States in 1964 was the last for the ship's longest-serving captain, John Anderson. "He was an impressive man who conducted lifeboat ...
Despite great efforts to revamp the iconic ocean liner, following a lawsuit, the SS United States Conservancy entered into an agreement with Okaloosa County, Florida, to sink the mammoth ship and turn ...
Making the ship into a reef is "not why I spent so much of my life trying to save her," Susan Gibbs, who runs the SS United States Conservancy (and whose grandfather designed the ship), said in an ...
After concerns that the SS United States wasn’t seaworthy enough to make the trip from Philadelphia to Florida, Okaloosa County now says experts believe the ship can be successfully towed from ...
A date has been set for sinking a historic cruise ship with links to Southampton so it can become the world's largest artificial reef. Since 1996, the United States has been rusting on the banks ...