USS United States
SS United States
 United States docked in Philadelphia, September 2009 | |
| Career |  |
|---|---|
| Name: | United States |
| Operator: | United States Lines |
| Port of registry: | New York City |
| Route: | Transatlantic |
| Ordered: | 1949[1] |
| Builder: | Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company[1] |
| Cost: | $79.4 million ($722 million in today's dollars)[1] |
| Yard number: | Hull 488[2] |
| Laid down: | 8 February 1950 |
| Launched: | 23 June 1951[3] |
| Christened: | 23 June 1951[3] |
| Maiden voyage: | 3 July 1952 |
| Out of service: | 14 November 1969[4] |
| Identification: | IMO number: 5373476 Callsign |
| Status: | Sold 1978 |
| Career | |
| Owner: | Various |
| Acquired: | 1978 |
| Fate: | Laid up in Philadelphia in 1996.[5] |
| Notes: | The United States changed hands multiple times from 1978-1996 for a return to active sea service but no plans came through.[6] |
| Career | |
| Owner: | SS United States Conservancy |
| Acquired: | 1 February 2011 |
| Status: | Laid up in Philadelphia, bought to be preserved as of February 2011.[7] |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage: | 53,330 GT |
| Displacement: | 45,400 tons (at design draft); 47,264 tons (at maximum draft) |
| Length: | 990 ft (302 m) (overall); 940 ft (287 m) (waterline) |
| Beam: | 101.5 ft (30.9 m) maximum |
| Draft: | 31.25 ft (9.53 m) (design); 32.33 ft (9.85 m) (maximum) |
| Depth: | 75 ft (23 m) |
| Decks: | 12 |
| Installed power: | 240,000 shp (180,000 kW) |
| Propulsion: | 4 × Westinghouse double-reduction geared steam turbines 8 × Babcock & Wilcox boilers operating at 1000 psi and 975°F 4 × shafts |
| Speed: | 32 knots (59 km/h; 37 mph) (service) 38.32 knots (70.97 km/h; 44.10 mph) (maximum) |
| Capacity: | 1,928 passengers |
| Crew: | 900 |
| Nickname(s): | "The Big U"[8] |
SS United States (Steamship) | |
U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
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| Location | Pier 82, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Coordinates |  39°55′4.6″N 75°8′12.8″W / 39.917944°N 75.136889°W / 39.917944; -75.136889Coordinates: 39°55′4.6″N 75°8′12.8″W / 39.917944°N 75.136889°W / 39.917944; -75.136889 |
| Architect | William Francis Gibbs |
| Governing body | Private |
| NRHP Reference # | 99000609[9] |
| Added to NRHP | 3 June 1999 |
SS United States is a luxury passenger liner built in 1952 for United States Lines designed to capture the trans-Atlantic speed record.
Built at a cost of $78 million,[10] the ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the US, the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, and even in her retirement retains the Blue Riband given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed.
Her construction was subsidized by the US government, since she was designed to allow conversion to a troop carrier should the need arise.[10] United States operated uninterrupted in transatlantic passenger service until 1969. Since 1996 she has been docked at Pier 82 on the Delaware River in Philadelphia.
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