Monday, February 17, 2025

The Final Voyage

The iconic USS United States was scheduled to leave Philadelphia today in route to Mobile, Alabama where it will become an artificial reef twenty miles south of the port city. She was the fastest and largest passenger ship ever built by the United States. I imagine back in the day it was a huge symbol of American technology, industry, technology, might, etc. It is not only the final trip for the ship, it is the passing of an era long gone in American history/culture. Story