PHILADELPHIA - The SS United States will begin its final journey this weekend to become part of the world's largest artificial reef. The more than three football fields long ship was sold to ...

After its retirement in 1969, the ship changed ownership several times before being purchased by the SS United States Conservancy in 2011. The conservancy had hoped to restore the ship but was ...

"If there haven't been already some tears about what's going on," said Stanton Daywalt, a Virginia Beach native and member of the SS United States Conservancy. Watch related coverage: Norfolk ...

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 ...