From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! A fixture on the Philadelphia waterfront will leave the city for good next week after nearly three decades in port. On Nov.
14, tugboats will hook up to the SS United States to prepare to remove the ship from the dock in South Philadelphia, where it has resided since 1996. After moving the ship to the north side of the slip, crews will wait for a low tide to move the ship into the Delaware River in the pre-dawn hours. The vessel will then have to pass under the Walt Whitman, Commodore Barry and Delaware Memorial bridges before being moved out to the coast.
Those bridges will be closed down as the rusted and dilapidated cruise liner makes its way south. The ship is being moved to Mobile, Alabama, where it will be prepped to become what officials say will be “the world largest artificial reef” off the Florida coast in about a year. The trip down south is expected to take two weeks.
The timetable all depends on the weather. Supreme Court decision time, art behind bars, the SS United States As SCOTUS justices get ready for summer break, we'll talk about the latest court decisions and preview coming rulings involving presidential immunity, the January 6 and more. Air Date: June 26, 2024 12:00 pm Efforts to preserve the ship never got enough traction to save the ocean liner.
In 2016, the Crystal Cruises luxury travel company announced grand plans to overhaul the sh.
