Editor’s note: Larry Bulanda of Jim Thorpe worked as an engineer at Newport News Shipbuilding, which is where the SS United States was built ... People were also headed away from formal, luxury travel ...

The retired luxury liner the SS United States may be the rustiest ship in the Port of Mobile. But she’s also having a moment as the belle of the ball – generating lots of attention from both locals ...

U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers on April 23 denied a motion by Okaloosa County, Florida, the owner of the SS United States, to have the lawsuit dismissed. The case was originally filed March ...

telling USA Today she stayed on her cabin until they docked in New York. The parents of 70-year-old Stephen Kosciesza jumped on the SS United States in 1954 and never looked back, emigrating from ...

By 1968, several of the vessel's counterparts were off the high seas, including the Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and the SS America. By 1969, United States Lines had decided that the luxury ship ...

Archival photos show the interior of the SS United States in 1953, shortly after it launched. Clockwise from left: a staircase; the Cabin-class lounge; the grand ballroom; and a landing.

the SS United States was part luxury liner – celebrity passengers included Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Hope and John Wayne – and part secret weapon, the conservancy website says.

The legendary SS United States, once the fastest ocean liner in ... this Cold War-era vessel was a marvel of engineering, built for both luxury and military use. Now, after decades of dormancy ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The SS United States has officially arrived in Mobile, Alabama, where it will now be stripped and prepped for sinking. For decades, the former luxury ocean liner had been ...

The SS United States, the former luxury ocean liner that was parked in South Philadelphia for almost 30 years, has reached Mobile, Ala., faster than expected and in one piece, proving skeptics wrong.

the superliner SS United States broke all records by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in three and a half days. Looking rusty and every bit of 75 years old, the former luxury cruiser limped into the ...

Photo credit: Okaloosa County Surrounded by tugboats, the SS United States makes its way through Mobile Bay on Monday. The former luxury liner will spend 6-12 months at Modern American Recycling ...