The SS United States, a record-breaking 1950s ocean liner, may soon sail from Philadelphia to the Gulf. NPR explored this ship, a relic of the grand liners that once connected North America with ...

The SS United States was taken out of service in November 1969. The liner was sold to a succession of owners from 1978 to 2009. It's been docked on the Delaware River in Philadelphia since 1996.

The SS United States, a record-breaking 1950s ocean liner, may soon sail from Philadelphia to the Gulf. NPR explored this ship, a relic of the grand liners that once connected North America with ...

The SS America, an ocean liner built in 1940 and a sister ship to the United States, made a similar conversion for World War II. A big part of the architecture and engineering of the SS United ...

The SS United States, which set a speed record crossing the Atlantic in the 1950s, will take its final voyage. So before departure, we climbed aboard. (SOUNDBITE OF GANG PLANK CLANKING) ...

Divers are getting excited about the planned sinking of the SS United States. The once glorious luxury ocean liner is slated to become an artificial reef. Alabama Public Radio’s Cori Yonge reports.

Built during the post-World War II engineering boom, the SS United States employed a world-class engine that made it the fastest trans-Atlantic oceanliner in history— still holding the speed ...

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 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 ...

When the SS United States was launched in 1952, ... California, these days, but in its heyday it was the fastest vessel used in World War II, traveling as fast as 32.5 knots.

The SS United States, a record-breaking 1950s ocean liner, may soon sail from Philadelphia to the Gulf. NPR explored this ship, a relic of the grand liners that once connected North America with ...

When the SS United States was launched in 1952, ... California, these days, but in its heyday it was the fastest vessel used ...