Before its retirement, the SS United States was known for carrying royalty and celebrities from the US the Europe, beginning in 1952 and ending in 1969.
A young Bill Clinton, before he was president, used the ship to cross the Atlantic. Former presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy also travelled on the vessel.
The ship was moved from Philadelphia to Alabama last year for cleaning and remediation work. On Monday, it took its final journey from Alabama to the coast of Destin, Florida, where it will be sunk on Wednesday in a precision operation without explosives.
