The SS United States has been cleared to sail from south Philadelphia to Mobile, Ala., in preparation for its eventual ...

After being docked in South Philly for nearly three decades, the SS United States has the greenlight from the U.S. Coast ...

Things are allegedly looking up for the SS United States and the vessel could be on the road to its temporary home by Saturday, with a micro-move from one Philadelphia pier to another scheduled for ...

In the next few days, the SS United States will be towed out of the Delaware River for the final time. Here are the details.

It should take about two weeks for the ocean liner to reach Mobile, Alabama, then a year-long preparation process will ready ...

No Cold War carriers have been preserved as museums, and it is disappointing that CV-63 or CV-67 couldn't be saved from the scrappers.

Okinawa, Japan, the next year. The U.S. built 24 Essex-class carriers during World War II (an average of one every two months for four years); now it takes the United States a decade to commission a ...

As it battled Houthi threats around the Red Sea last year, the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) also served as a testbed for ...

One of the Russian ships was detained Sunday by the Swedes for further investigation, the Journal reports. The ship’s owner ...

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