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SS United States is a retired American ocean liner that was built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the United States and the f
SS United States at sea in the 1950s
William Francis Gibbs, whose lifelong goal was the design of what became the United States
Keel of USS United States (CVA-58) at Newport News Shipbuilding, which was dismantled to allow for construction of the ocean liner
A colorized black-and-white photograph of SS United States taken during her sea trials. The ship's name, and a U.S. flag on her foremast, have been added. (They were missing during her sea trials.)
United States Lines
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United States Lines was an organization of the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation, created to operate German liners seized by the United States in 1917. The ships were owned by
SS United States
…SS United States is a retired American ocean liner that was built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either…
Princess Alice, later Princess Matoika, circa 1914–16
Econships American Nebraska and American Kentucky laid up in New York, 1987