The SS United States will head down the East Coast to its destination in Mobile, Alabama. From there, organizers plan to eventually sink the ship off the coast of Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida.

An empty pool remains inside the retired SS United States ocean liner ship as reminder of a bygone era Credit: Getty. The proposal, still contingent on U.S. District Court mediation, would see the ...

The SS United States took its maiden voyage in July 1952 and remains the largest passenger ship ever built in the U.S., 100 feet bigger than the Titanic.Unlike the Titanic, the United States ...

Before SS United States departs Philadelphia, dozens take cruise to check out the boat 02:22. Plans to move the SS United States may have been halted due to weather concerns in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Modern cruise ships are floating cities. They require people to run, clean, and maintain them, as well as feed and care for ...

On Oct.1, Destin-Fort Walton Beach and the SS United States Conservancy, which owns and fundraises for the ship, said that that the Board of County Commissioners in Okaloosa County had approved a ...

At the age of 10, David Macaulay immigrated to America from England in 1957 with his mother, brother, and sister aboard the SS United States — a massive, gleaming ocean liner that had been in ...

The ship found its home on Pier 82 in South Philadelphia in 1996 after a nonprofit called the SS United States Conservancy saved it from the scrapyard in 2011. However, its plans to rehabilitate ...

Following a legal battle, the owners of Pier 82 successfully evicted the ship last year. In response, Okaloosa County, Florida, officials offered to turn the SS United States into the world’s ...

Court documents said Penn Warehousing had warned the SS United States Conservancy, which oversees the vessel, that it was prepared to impose a $3 million penalty if the ship is there on Sept. 13.

2011: The SS United States Conservancy purchases the ship for $3 million, preventing her from being scrapped. 2015 : Crystal Cruises expresses interest in restoring the SS United States but ...