The conservancy that oversees a storied but aging ocean liner and its landlord have resolved a years-old rent dispute that will clear the way for a Florida county to turn the historic ship into the world’s largest artificial reef.
The S.S. United States — still the world's fastest ocean liner — will cruise by the Palmetto State on its final voyage after seven decades above the waves.
The SS United States is getting towed down the East Coast on its way to the Florida panhandle, where it will be sunk and turned into an artificial reef. The ocean liner was once a technological marvel and still holds the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing for a vessel of its size.
The long-retired SS United States, the fastest ocean liner ever to cross the Atlantic, left the Delaware Bay on Thursday for its final voyage, after having been anchored to a Philadelphia dock for more than three decades.
