Built in Newport News, Virginia, the SS United States is a 1,000-foot vessel that shattered the trans-Atlantic speed record on its maiden voyage in 1952. The ship arrived early Monday in Mobile ...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — The SS United States may have already passed by Hampton Roads on one of its final voyages as it heads to become the world's largest artificial reef. Built in Newport News ...

Had the SS United States remained in service ... The ship then made her way down to Newport News for an annual overhaul where she was “abruptly and permanently withdrawn from service.” ...

Built in Newport News, the SS United States is on its final cruise. Its final voyage will go to the bottom of Florida's Gulf Coast to become an artificial reef.

The legendary SS United States is making its way into Alabama's waters Monday, where it will remain at Modern American Recycling Services for at least six months to be stripped of toxic materials ...

The SS United States has, perhaps, shown why it was once the fastest ocean liner in the world as the rusted ship -- long a fixture of the Delaware River waterfront in South Philadelphia -- has ...

In her heyday in the 1950s, the superliner SS United States broke all records by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in three and a half days. Looking rusty and every bit of 75 years old, the former ...

THE SS UNITED STATES WAS SOLD AT AUCTION IN APRIL 1992 ... THE 990-FOOT OCEAN LINER LEFT NEWPORT NEWS ON JUNE 4TH AND WAS TOWED TO ISTANBUL WHERE SHE WAS EXPECTED TO BE REFURBISHED AT THE TUZLA ...

The SS United States is now off the coast of Florida. After a series of delays, the 990-foot ocean liner left Philadelphia last week, on its way to become the world's largest artificial reef off ...