Maritime historian calls removal of ship's iconic smokestacks "a point of no return" as plans advance for museum in ...

The SS United States—once dubbed ‘America’s flagship,’ and considered an American icon through the 1950s and ’60s—was towed into Mobile for an extended remediation before it's final ...

Crews will spend about six months cleaning the 1,000-foot vessel and removing hazardous materials as they prepare it to eventually be sunk off Florida's Gulf coast.

The 65-foot forward smokestack was removed from the SS United States. The stack will be preserved for future use in the SS United States Conservancy.

The organization working to save the SS United States says it has raised $600,000 over the last seven weeks.

The Newport News-built SS United States has completed the first leg of its final voyage. Plans are in place to turn it into the world's largest artificial reef.

Work is continuing to transform the world's fastest ocean liner, the SS United States, to the world's largest artificial reef.

When the SS United States was launched in 1952, it was the era of crossing the Atlantic by ship, and people wanted to do it fast. How fast? Very fast.

On the morning of Lundi Gras in early March, the SS United States arrived quietly in Mobile as a sleeping giant, rusting but regal as it was guided up the Mobile Bay. From a distance, “America ...