USA Today: SS United States starts last voyage to its final destination – at the bottom of the Gulf
The long-retired SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever to cross the Atlantic, left the Delaware Bay on Thursday for its final voyage, after having been anchored to a Philadelphia dock for more than three decades.
Despite recent rallying calls urging President Donald Trump to save “America’s Flagship” vessel, the larger-than-the Titanic ship will soon meet its watery grave.
Tugboats are currently steering it down the Atlantic Ocean on a two-week trip to Mobile, Alabama, where it will be cleaned and renovated for a second life as the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida’s Gulf Coast.