‘Ship is in pretty darn good shape:’ Meet the man on standby for the SS United States

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Historic SS United States endures 1,800-mile tow south to become artificial reef

The SS United States, the historic ocean liner that spent nearly three decades docked in the Delaware River, reached Alabama on Monday morning to begin final preparations for its sinking.

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Why authorities plan to sink this historic ocean liner in waters off Florida

The process of cleaning, transporting and sinking the vessel is expected to take at least one-and-a-half years

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‘Ship is in pretty darn good shape:’ Meet the man on standby for the SS United States

The SS United States is expected to arrive in Mobile, Alabama, sometime Monday. The next step? Off the coast of Destin, where it will be turned into an artificial reef.

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SS United States arrives in Mobile

The famed oceanliner that once carried the likes of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe finally made its much-anticipated arrival in the Port of Mobile just in time for Lundi Gras in its penultimate stop before it’s scuttled off the…

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The historic and ageing transatlantic that a county of Florida plans to turn into the world's largest artificial reef has completed the first stage of its final journey.The SS United States, a 305-metre (1,000-foot) boat in length that broke the transatlantic speed record on its inaugural voyage in 1952, arrived early Monday in Mobile, Alabama, almost two weeks after leaving the Delaware River in southern Philadelphia.The ship was to arrive at a…