Updates on the Conservancy, the SS United States, and our future museum and visitor experience.
It was supposed to be the last chance for members of the public to get a look at the SS United States as it moved between two Delaware River piers before setting off on its journey to become the world’s largest artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico.
Read MorePlans to move the SS United States may have been halted due to weather concerns in the Gulf of Mexico, but dozens of people still stuck to a schedule and took a cruise on the Spirit of Philadelphia on Thursday around noon.
Read MoreThe move of the SS United States to Alabama has been delayed, but the ship's conservancy went ahead with its chartered cruise luncheon for supporters on Thursday.
Read MoreThe SS United States, a long-retired and once-glamorous ocean liner bigger than the Titanic and the fastest ever to cross the Atlantic, will soon set sail for the last time. Its final voyage will end off Florida's Gulf coast with "America's Flagship" becoming the world’s largest artificial reef.
Read MoreA 34-ton propeller from the SS United States at the entrance to The Mariners’ Museum and Park in Newport News is a reminder of the golden age of ocean liners. Equipped with powerful steam-driven turbines, the SS United States was the fastest ocean liner ever to cross the Atlantic Ocean. “America’s Flagship” was built at Newport News Shipbuilding and delivered in 1952 as a secret Cold War military transport ship ready to carry 15,000 soldiers across the Atlantic Ocean if then Soviet Union forces invaded Western Europe.
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