A land-based museum will be built to tell the story of the legendary ocean liner. Okaloosa County Board Chairman Paul Mixon said the SS United States will spend its remaining years providing a ...
carrying the art and glory of France to foreign lands," explains the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ocean liners were the ultimate icons of the machine age, which art deco hoped to capture ...
Dan Rounds and Elizabeth Fowle maintain a daily routine of walking to the East End of Dauphin Island to watch the sunrise. Their routine had a lot more company on Monday, as a large group flocked for ...
The Italianate cast-iron and stone warehouse at 213-215 Water Street, designed by Stephen D. Hatch in 1868 for the A.A.
American ocean liner the SS United States was once the fastest ... As well as its new designation as an artificial reef, a museum is planned for dry land where fans of the enormous ship will ...
The SS United States is towed to Alabama and draws onlookers to the East End of Dauphin Island on Monday, March 3, 2025. The ...
In fall 2024, Florida's Okaloosa County bought the ship after approving a $10.1 million plan to relocate the ocean liner, sink it and build a $1 million seaside museum chronicling its history.
New York City preservationists’ dream of docking an historic ocean liner on the Brooklyn waterfront appears all but sunk — but they’re making a last-ditch appeal to President Donald Trump to make the ...
Once-fastest transatlantic ship arrives for six-month preparation before final destination as artificial reef in Florida.
Once the fastest ocean liner in the world ... The Florida coastal county is also planning to build a land-based museum and immersive exhibit detailing the ship’s rich history.
The ocean liner, which carried four U.S. presidents ... hopes of restoring the ship as a museum or tourist attraction have given way to a different fate. The 990-foot-long vessel will be repurpose ...
The SS United States, the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic, will meet its final resting place in the Gulf off the ...