After months of delays, what was once the world’s fastest passenger liner his making the first leg of the ship’s journey to ...

RELATED: Here's what is delaying the SS United States from leaving Philadelphia Before leaving South Philadelphia, the ship must be transferred from Pier 82 to Pier 80. It will then be chaperoned ...

The plan is to tug the SS United States along the East Coast and ultimately to Mobile, Alabama, to be stripped and prepped to be sunk. Then the ship's final home will be under about 180 feet (55 ...

As the historic SS United States is prepared to be tugged ... every night after we left (New York) and then move them back when we left Le Havre," the now 78-year-old Miller said.