ss united states

0 comments / October 31, 2026 / Geoffrey / Museums & History, Retired Liners, S.S. United States

S.S. United States to Become a Reef – Goodbye Big U

America’s Greatest Liner Finds a New Purpose In 2024, Okaloosa County, Florida, bought the S.S. United States. Early in 2025, she left Philadelphia. Since then, they’ve cleaned, stripped, and prepared her for one last job. Sometime in mid-November, weather permitting, they’ll sink her in the Gulf of Mexico about 22 nautical miles off Destin–Fort Walton… Read more

8 comments / September 11, 2012 / Geoffrey / Museums & History, Retired Liners, S.S. United States, Uncategorized

The Last Passenger Of The S.S. United States

The SS United States has been laid up in Philadelphia for many years now. She has not sailed under her own power since 1969. Her final voyage returned from Europe bound for New York, collecting my parents, our 1963 Rambler and myself in Southampton U.K. along the way and then never setting out to sea… Read more