The S.S. United States, a 20th-century ocean liner once celebrated as fast, luxurious and nearly indestructible, is heading to the ocean floor.<\/p>\n
The historic supership will be deliberately sunk to become an artificial reef, bringing an end to years of efforts to preserve it.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> The New York Times \u2014 The S.S. United States, a Historic Supership, Heads to the Ocean Floor<\/a>. Also reported by CBS News<\/a>, The New Yorker<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n S.S. United States, artificial reef, ocean liner, historic ships, maritime history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The S.S. United States, a 20th-century ocean liner once celebrated as fast, luxurious and nearly indestructible, is heading to the ocean floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[735,736,737,505,734],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-science","tag-artificial-reef","tag-historic-ships","tag-maritime-history","tag-ocean-liner","tag-s-s-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}