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The interior accommodations were styled by architects Eggers & Higgins to be the utmost in contemporary American design, making use of stainless steel, ceramics, and synthetics. America was originally constructed with low funnels in order to give the ship a modern, streamlined appearance. Very early in its career, however, the height of the ...
Dorothy “Dot” Marckwald (1898–1986) was a prominent American interior designer in the mid-20th century who focused primarily on the interiors of luxury ocean liners. Her most important works were the interiors for the SS America and the SS United States, which was the fastest passenger liner of
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
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.
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The article starts by "SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940", and the Spanish, Russian, French, German versions of this article read "1940" in the title. However, English version reads "1939". Should this be modified? --Maku17 15:46, 10 February 2015 (UTC) Yes because 1940 was when she was completed.
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