Fla. county inks tentative deal to turn SSUS into world's largest artificial reef
The deal to buy the ship, which officials said could cost more than $10 million, could close in a matter of weeks, pending ...
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Plans to turn SS United States into a reef off Florida coast move forward
The SS United States, the historic ocean liner that has ... The ship, which at 990 feet long is 100 feet longer than the Titanic, would become the world's largest artificial reef, Okaloosa County ...
The New York Times11d
A Storied Luxury Liner May Soon Find New Life on the Florida Seafloor
By Kate Christobek More than seven decades ago, the S.S. United States — a ship bigger than the Titanic — made its ... On Tuesday, local officials and the SS United States Conservancy ...
Deal reached to move SS United States from Philly, turn it into artificial reef
A deal has been reached sealing the fate of the SS United States to become the world's largest artificial reef off of the ...
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Historic ship could soon become the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida’s Gulf Coast
The largest passenger ship ever built in the U.S., the SS United States shattered a record for ... longer than the Titanic. The solution: sink it on purpose and create what supporters hope ...
The Virginian-Pilot10d
SS United States, historic ocean liner built in Newport News, to become world’s largest artificial reef
the SS United States broke the Queen Mary’s trans-Atlantic speed record, set 14 years before. It crossed the North Atlantic in three days, 10 hours and 40 minutes, besting the RMS Queen Mary’s ...
Daily Mail26d
From the Titanic to tanking: How the world's most prolific shipbuilder Harland & Wolff survived world wars, IRA bombings and sinking of its most famous liner before collapsing ...
Harland & Wolff also proved crucial to Britain's Second World War efforts, manufacturing hundreds of warships and merchant ships as well as 500 tanks - and its 1960 creation SS Canberra would go ...
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Burglar damages SS United States in Philly amid plans to turn ship into artificial reef
A burglar damaged the SS United States in Philadelphia just days after ... which is more than 100 feet (30 meters) longer than the Titanic. Under the contract, the ship would be intentionally ...
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Florida county votes to acquire SS United States and sink it to create artificial reef
Days after a judge temporarily suspended the deadline for the SS United States to leave its dock in ... for the vessel that's longer than the Titanic. A permanent location was never identified ...