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It carried many names in the 54 years between its construction and its 1994 wreck: SS America (carrying this name three different times during its career); troop transport USS West Point; and SS Australis, Italis, Noga, Alferdoss, and American Star. It served most notably in passenger service as America and the Greek-flagged Australis.
SS America (1898) 2 languages ... America was a packet boat transporting passengers, ... The wreck was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]
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The SS America, an iconic ocean liner launched in 1940, had a storied career, serving as a luxury passenger ship and a World War II troop transport. ... the wreck of SS Thistlegorm is basically an ...
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 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 ...
Nov. 25—In Portland's historical Abyssinian Meeting House, 198 names were read aloud Saturday remembering those who perished 125 years ago in New England's worst maritime disaster. On the ...
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.