The plan is to tug the SS United States along the East Coast and ultimately to Mobile, Alabama, to be stripped and prepped to be sunk. Then the ship’s final home will be under about 180 feet (55 ...

Who ever said moving a historic floating skyscraper would be easy? America’s flagship — the magnificent SS United States — was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage ...

The ship has sat dormant in its Philadelphia pier for more than two decades as conservationists have struggled to map out ... tug the SS United States along the East Coast and ultimately to Mobile, ...

After concerns that the SS United States wasn’t seaworthy enough to ... believe the ship can be successfully towed from the East Coast to the Gulf of Mexico, where it’s intended to create ...