I am not a cruise person, although I was lucky enough a long time ago to take a cruise of the Greek Islands. Most of my vacations are road trips, but I do like learning about earlier eras of plane ...

Turns out, it’s all in the horsepower, some clever navigation, and beating bad weather, according to tugboat captain and self-described SS United States pallbearer Mike Vinik. “It was an honor being ...

When it comes to sinking things in the Gulf — “We’ve sank dredges and ships and barges and tugboats ... are slowing Earth’s strongest ocean current: ‘There could be severe consequences ...

Built in Newport News, Virginia, the SS United States is a 1,000-foot vessel that shattered the trans-Atlantic speed record on its maiden voyage in 1952. The ship arrived early Monday in Mobile ...

In her heyday in the 1950s, the superliner SS United States ... the ship had seen several owners, all of them unsuccessful in repurposing it, and been stripped of much of its interior.

Advertisement The SS United States, which remains the largest passenger ship ever built in the United States with the capacity to hold 1,984 passengers, will provide a "much-needed habitat for a ...

The SS United States arrived in Mobile on Monday. The vessel spent the last eleven days being tugged from Philadelphia. From purchasing the ship to getting it down to the gulf, Okaloosa County ...

Susan Gibbs, the president of the SS United States Conservancy, praised Vinik and his crew for their "expert care" as the ship completed its historic 401st voyage. "As she moved through the waves ...

The SS United States has, perhaps, shown why it was once the fastest ocean liner in the world as the rusted ship -- long a fixture of the Delaware River waterfront in South Philadelphia -- has ...

In November of 1969, the SS United States was retired from service. The US Navy used her as a reserve ship until 1978. The SS United States Conservatory made several attempts to transform the ship ...