Bottom of the News

“​In its glory days, the S.S. United States was fast, luxurious and all but indestructible. As the ocean liner’s designer, William Francis Gibbs, liked to ​say, ‘You can’t set her on fire, you can’t sink her, and you can’t catch her.’ And he was right, up to a point. On Wednesday one of the greatest ships to sail the seas made its final journey, 180 feet down to the bottom of the ocean.​” The S.S. United States, a Historic Supership, Sinks to the Ocean Floor. But the metaphor doesn’t stop there. It was sunk in the Gulf of Mexico…