The S.S. United States was my departure of choice in the early summer of '68. She was then the fastest ocean liner ever to cross the Atlantic. I boarded her from New York's City's, West Side terminal, and arrived in Le Harve, France after just four and half days at sea. Then in the following late afternoon, she docked into the port of Southampton, England, and from there, I set-out for a British education.
Last night, this famed and long retired ocean liner, after years of being stripped naked, with her 2 standing six-story high funnels finally removed, was forever scuttled and laid to rest at the bottom of Florida's Gulf of Mexico.
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