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SS America was an ocean liner and cruise ship built in the United States in 1940 for the United States Lines and designed by ... but this never happened. In ...
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.
SS America (1869), a passenger steamer for Pacific Mail Steamship Company; SS America (1874), a cargo ship that was in Chilean service in 1928, formerly known as the George W. Elder. SS America (1883), a passenger cargo vessel by J & G Thomson of Clydebank, launched 29 December 1893, later used by the Italian Navy as Trinacria and as a Royal ...
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.
In 1941, two Nazi spies, Franz Joseph Stigler and Erwin Wilhelm Siegler, worked for United States Lines as members of SS America ' s crew. While on America , they obtained information about the movement of ships and military defense preparations at the Panama Canal , observed and reported defense preparations in the Canal Zone, and met with ...
SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, was a 280-foot (85 m) sidewheel steamer that operated between Central America and the East Coast of the United States during the 1850s. She was originally named the SS George Law , after George Law of New York.
SS Independence was an American built passenger liner, which entered service in February 1951 for American Export Lines. Originally, she plied a New York-Mediterranean route, specializing in a high-end clientele, sailing one way while her sister ship, SS Constitution , plied the route the opposite.
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