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The historic liner SS United States will be sunk off Destin, Florida, to become the world's largest artificial ocean reef, BBC World reported. The ship was moved from Philadelphia to Alabama last year for cleaning and remediation, then made its final journey to Florida on Monday, with the sinking set for Wednesday in an operation without explosives. Activists had unsuccessfully fought to have the ship preserved as a museum, and the decision ends that campaign. A Florida county bought the ship, and a land-based museum detailing its history is also planned. Once the fastest ship in the world and longer than the Titanic, the liner carried royalty and celebrities across the Atlantic between 1952 and 1969, including former presidents Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy, and a young Bill Clinton before he was president. The Conservancy group, whose president Susan Gibbs said she was glad the ship's story would live on, repeatedly tried to keep it afloat without success.