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SS United States, record-setting ocean liner, makes its final voyage (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/news

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It's been a long time coming, but at least with it's final act it'll help bring new life.

In accordance with the rules of news, I have updated the headline to reflect the headline on the website.

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[–] Nightweb@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are sinking the cruise ship the SS United States, it’ll be sunk to make an artificial reef

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

SS United States was an ocean liner, not a cruise ship. It was built for getting people between US and Europe when that still mostly happened by ship, not to give people norovirus.