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United States Lines was the trade name of an organization of the United States Shipping Board's (USSB) Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC), created to operate German liners seized by the United States in 1917. The ships were owned by the USSB and all finances of the line were controlled by the EFC.
United States Lines. The company came into existence in 1921 owing to the inability of the United States Mail SS Co. to fulfill it's obligations to the United States Shipping Board. Originally under the joint management of Moore & McCormack, Roosevelt SS Co. and United American Lines.
VesselBuiltYears In ServiceTonsAcadia19321939 chartered from Eastern SS Co for one ...6,185America (1)1905ex- Amerika ( Hamburg America Line ), ...22,261America (2)19401941 became US troopship West Point, 1946 ...26,454American Attorney1945ex- Attleboro Victory, 1948 transferred ...7,607United States Lines operated cargo services from 1921 to 1989, and ocean liners until 1969—most famously, the SS United States and the Leviathan. The company was formed with three ships from the tonnage of the failed United States Mail Steamship Company.
Nov 18, 2022 · FreightWaves Classics examines storied ocean carrier U.S. Lines, which was persistent in its desire to operate a successful cargo ship named the American Shipper.
United States Lines and the heydays of trans-Atlantic travel on the last two great American ocean liners, the S.S. America and United States. Since 1838 steam driven ships have raced across the Atlantic in cut throat competition for passengers and national honor.
United States Lines was the trading name of the United States Shipping Board (USSB) and the Emergency Fleet Corporation (EFC), which operated from 1921 to 1991.
United States Lines president John Franklin and naval architect William Francis Gibbs met at United States Lines company headquarters in New York. They agreed to build nothing less than the “Greatest ship in the world’.
