U.S. ships with U.S. crews meeting the criteria of the Passenger Services Act were able to cruise the Islands[clarification needed] without sailing to a foreign port.

Constitution was retired in 1995; while under tow to be scrapped, the liner sank 700 nautical miles (1,300 km) north of the Hawaiian Islands on November 17, 1997.

American movie actress Grace Kelly sailed aboard Constitution from New York to Monaco for her wedding to Prince Rainier in 1956.

Former President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess sailed back to New York from Europe on the Constitution in the summer of 1958.

[3] On November 17, 1997, the ship was being towed to a scrapping shipyard to be dismantled when it sank about 800 miles north of Hawaii [4]