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Over 30,000 spectators showed up at the Newport News shipyard for the launch of the S.S. America. Americans were proud of their new ocean liner. A sailing ambassador the new ship represented the best of the nation’s technology, art, style, and way of life at a time when ocean liners were objects of national pride.
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; Company type: Government, later Private: Industry: Shipping, transportation: Predecessor: United States Mail Steamship Company: Founded: August 27, 1921: Defunct: 1992: Fate: Liquidated: Headquarters: 1 Broadway, New York City, United States (1943–1978) 45 Broadway, New York City (1921–1943) 27 Commerce Drive, Cranford, NJ
America’s Flagship. A Brief History of the SS United States. A SHIPIS BORN 1946-1952. March 1946. United States Lines president John Franklin and naval architect William Francis Gibbs meet at United States Lines company headquarters in New York and agree to build nothing less than the “Greatest ship in the world’.
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.
Oct 12, 2014 · By John Edwards Ocean Liners. Many people immediately associate United States Lines with the company’s last two flagships: America (1940) and United States. Yet, in the 1930s, it was a pair of sister ships-Washington and Manhattan-that set the pace for United States Lines on the North Atlantic.
SS America. Pictures and memories of sailing on the S.S. America. As soon as our families had seen us off in fall-colored New York, the America had sailed straight into the teeth of a North Atlantic gale. As the big ship heeled and bucked in waves as tall as buildings, there was a constant sound of bashing, clashing, clicking, shuddering ...
