When the SS United States sailed for the first time in nearly three decades Wednesday, Margaret Miller came to the Delaware River to watch the ship she once travelled in when she immigrated to the United States.
The 64-year-old Pennsauken resident was among hundreds lining the river to see the ocean liner, once hailed as a leading example of American shipbuilding, get towed down the river and into the Atlantic Ocean to begin its journey to becoming the world’s largest artificial reef.