A storied ocean liner that offered passengers regal elegance while setting trans-Atlantic speed records for decades began its final journey this week at a much more measured pace.

The SS United States, the largest ocean liner ever built in the U.S., was nudged from a pier in Philadelphia where it had been rusting away for decades. Tugboats pulled at the 990-foot-long ship as it embarked on a 14-day voyage to Mobile, Alabama, where workers will remove any remaining hazardous materials.

After that, the SS United States, which ferried presidents and movie stars across the Atlantic for nearly 20 years, will be sunk off the Florida Panhandle coast to become what its new owners say will be the world’s largest artificial reef.

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