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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 today.
Sailors assigned to USS Philadelphia stand topside as the submarine gets underway. Philadelphia performed many patrols and deployments during her career. She was deployed to the Mediterranean Sea in 1979, 1982, 1986, 1991 (where she later went on to support Operation Desert Storm), 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009, the last three of which also involved operations in support of CENTCOM.
The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged event claimed to have been witnessed by an ex-merchant mariner named Carl M. Allen at the United States Navy's Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, some time around October 28, 1943.
The SS United States, a historic ship that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago, must leave its berth on the Delaware River in Philadelphia by Sept. 12, a ...
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 ...
She will be the seventh United States Navy vessel named for the city of Philadelphia. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the ship's name while visiting Philadelphia's historic Independence Hall, during Navy and Marine Corps Week festivities in October 2023.
SS Philadelphia (1888), the name from 1901 to 1918 and 1919 to 1923 for an ocean liner originally named SS Paris; served as USS Yale in Spanish–American War (1898) and as USS Harrisburg (ID-1633) during World War I (1918–19) for the United States Navy; SS Philadelphia (1945), a container ship of Sea-Land Service; rebuilt from the former USS ...
The ship was built at the former Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and was launched from there on Dec. 7, 1942, the first anniversary of the Japanese air attack on Pearl Harbor.