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The United States
(USA 1952-1969)

The United States is today lying stripped bare in Philadelphia, awaiting her fate.  In her 17 years of service she was by far the fastest liner ever built and had a number of very advanced features.  She deserves to be saved.


The SS United States Conservancy is the national effort to save the ship. 
Click here or on the image below for more information


The S.S. United States

 

Postcard my dad got on board - I think - of her July 22nd 1959 crossing
from Southampton to New York via Le Havre.

ssus postcard.jpg (62789 bytes)ssus postcard back.jpg (82113 bytes)

Click here for a Google Earth KMZ file
which will show you were she is now.

 

Some videos:

This is the best one (click to open) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sex1qjiVX8

 

 

Notes

The SS United States was designed with military use in mind. For this reason she was extremely fast for such an enormous ship - over 38 knots - and was easily convertible into a troop ship for 14000. She beat the Queen Mary's Atlantic crossing by 10! hours and still holds the Blue Riband today. Unfortunately she became unprofitable with the advent of Jet travel and was laid up in 1969 after only 17 years service.

She is now the largest abandoned vehicle in the city of Philadelphia.

She is now the exact opposite to the Queen Mary in many ways.  The QM lies with no mechanics, but her interiors on the whole intact, the United States is mechanically sounds, but has been internally completely gutted.

 

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