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America being converted to USS West Point in Norfolk. The carrier USS Hornet can be seen behind her. America was moored at Norfolk, Virginia, and acquired by the Navy on 1 June 1941 to be used as a troop transport. [4] The ship was renamed the USS West Point (AP-23), [4] the second U.S. Navy ship of the name.
SS Amerika may refer to the following ships: USS America (ID-3006), launched in 1905 as SS Amerika by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Hamburg America Line of Germany as a passenger ocean liner, before becoming USS America in 1917; SS Celtic (1872), an ocean liner renamed in 1893 as SS Amerika by Thingvalla Line of Copenhagen
As the only surviving ship from the Civil War era, the USS Constellation is steeped in American history. Built in 1854, the ship, now located in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, spent its early days ...
Project America was the result of the U.S.-Flag Cruise Ship Pilot Project Statute passed by Congress in 1997, designed to do the following: Revitalise the U.S.-flag oceangoing cruise ship fleet; Create more than 5,000 American jobs; Help sustain and modernise the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base; Increase U.S. tax revenues; Boost Hawaii tourism
As of 2024 this class is the largest cruise ship class ever constructed. Royal Caribbean plans to have at least four Icon-class ships, which will include Icon of the Seas (entered service in 2024), Star of the Seas (entering service in 2025), and unnamed third and fourth ships (planned to enter service in 2026 and 2027). It also has an option ...
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.
On 26 May, America began its first day of special operations in the Gulf of Tonkin, when Cmdr. Fred M. Backman, commanding officer of VA-165, and his bombardier/navigator, Lt. Cmdr. Jack Hawley, in a Grumman A-6C Intruder flew the ship's first combat sortie of the 1970 WestPac cruise.
Armed with a main battery of 18-pounder at a time when French 74's carried 24-pdr and 36-pdr guns, America would have a relatively weak broadside compared to other French ships-of-the-line. Little is known of her subsequent service under the French flag other than the fact it was brief.
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