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
Princess Alice, later Princess Matoika, circa 1914–16
SS United States at sea in 1952
Econships American Nebraska and American Kentucky laid up in New York, 1987
SS United States
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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
United States Lines
…to continue operating as a transatlantic shipping company that operated cargo services from 1921 to 1989, and ocean liners until 1969—most famously, United States. United States Lines was the trade name of the United States Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC) organization created to operate the…
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.)