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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 ...
America (Official No. 107367) [2] was a steel-hulled ship, built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company in Wyandotte at what is today the Wyandotte shores golf course [3] and launched on April 2, 1898. [4] The ship was 184 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 11 feet in depth. [ 4 ]
North America's maritime museums: an annotated guide. New York, New York: Facts on File. ISBN 0-8160-1001-3. Poutre, Joseph. "Naval and Maritime Museums List United States of America" Saini, Vik. "Maritime and naval museum links" Smith, Robert. "Smith's Master Index to Maritime Museum Websites"
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
Photo of SS America (c. 1920s) For America, further service awaited with the United States Lines. Reconditioned to resume her place in the transatlantic passenger trade, she commenced her maiden voyage as an American passenger liner on 22 June 1921, sailing for Bremen, Germany, with stops at Plymouth, England, and Cherbourg, France, en route.
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.
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 ...
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