Seventy-two years ago the fastest ship in the world at the time made its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York.

USS stands for United States Ship, and is used for Navy ships that are currently in active service. The designation has been ...

Modern cruise ships are floating cities. They require people to run, clean, and maintain them, as well as feed and care for ...

Midas cargo ship fire and sinking off Alaska with hundreds of EVs and fuel onboard raises ecological alarm. Experts warn of ...

As summer vacations begin, millions of families board cruise ships in Florida, New York, Texas, Washington state and ...

When the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg on 15 April 1912, she set off flares and her wireless operator sent out a distress call. The RMS Carpathia responded, but by the time she arrived, the Titanic had ...

Divers are getting excited about the planned sinking of the SS United States. The once glorious luxury ocean liner is slated to become an artificial reef. Alabama Public Radio’s Cori Yonge reports.

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 ...

A porthole in his family's room looked out over an endless blue horizon, unbroken even by other ships — an image and memory that helped inspire his illustrated book about the SS United States ...

The SS United States Conservancy had wanted to keep the Big U afloat and looked for alternative berths after it was evicted from Pier 82 in Philadelphia in 2024, but the ship is too large.

Built in the early 1950s, the SS United States is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the U.S. It is the fastest ship of its kind to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction.

The SS United States goes by Boynton Beach on Feb. 26, 2025 on its way to Mobile, Alabama to be cleaned before being sunk to ...