In fact, the SS United States Conservancy tried for years to do just that, but the ship had a different fate. By 1996, the ship had seen several owners, all of them unsuccessful in repurposing it, and ...

In her heyday in the 1950s, the superliner SS United States broke all records by crossing ... and been stripped of much of its interior. It was docked at Pier 82 in Philadelphia that year and ...