It's been a week since the SS United States left its Philadelphia pier for the last time after it was sold to a Florida county to become part of an artificial reef.

After months of multiple delays, the SS United States finally left its longtime home of Philadelphia just before 1 p.m. ET Wednesday. The storied ocean liner’s next stop is Mobile, Alabama, where it will be prepared for its final mission – to become an artificial reef off the coast of the Florida Panhandle.

The SS United States has entered the Gulf on its way to becoming the world’s largest artificial reef off Florida’s Panhandle.

USS United States is in the Gulf on the way to becoming the world's largest artificial reef. Will you see it from the Sarasota, Bradenton shore?

The ship will now leave Philly on Wednesday, not Tuesday, to begin its journey of becoming the world's largest artificial reef.

The ship will join Florida’s 4,300 artificial reefs—human-made places for fish and other marine life to live. How do these reefs work?

The new owners of the historic ocean liner now say it will begin its journey out of Philadelphia on Wednesday.

After months of delays, the historic SS United States ocean liner finally moved out of Philadelphia today on a new voyage as it prepares to become the world's largest artificial reef off the ...

The luxury liner SS United States departed South Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon to begin a two-week journey to its eventual destination as the world's largest artificial reef off Florida's Gulf Coast.

After months of delay, the historic ocean liner SS United States is getting towed down the Delaware River from Philadelphia on the first leg of its journey to become the “world’s largest artificial reef” about 20 miles off the Okaloosa,

After departing from Philadelphia earlier this month, the SS United States recently arrived at the Florida coastline. Being towed to the port of Mobile in Alabama, the former ocean liner is sailing on its last voyage ahead of becoming the world’s largest artificial reef.