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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 fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction, retaining the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952, a title she still holds.
English: The SS United States was an oceanliner built in 1951. Renowned for her record-breaking trans-Atlantic speed records, the ship has since fallen into disrepair. The photo is taken from the minstrel's gallery on the ship's Main Deck, looking onto the 1st-class dining room a deck below.
English: The SS United States was an oceanliner built in 1951. Renowned for her record-breaking trans-Atlantic speed records, the ship has since fallen into disrepair. The photo shows a passageway on Main Deck that lead to 1st-class cabins on the left. The footprints of each stateroom can still be seen on the deck.
The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. But Coast Guard concerns ...
The SS United States is on her way to a new life — quite literally. The 990-foot ocean liner is headed south to the Gulf Coast, where she will be sunk off the coast of Okaloosa County, Florida ...
The SS United States was taken out of service in November 1969 as more travelers took to the air and its owner, United States Lines, lost money. The ship was sold multiple times between the late ...
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The SS United States, the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in America and still the holder of the transatlantic round-trip speed record, has been laid up in Philadelphia since 1996.