On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:00:10 GMT, joevan
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:49:43 GMT, joevan
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:50:29 -0400, Bill wrote:

In article ,
joevan wrote:

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:13:57 -0500, L D'Bonnie wrote:

I missed that sort of fun when I came back from Europe on the USS
United states. I was told that there was a hurricane that summer and
she outran it. Took a sort of detour to stay out of it as I understood
at the time. I think that was 1964 or 65. She had the speed to do so.
At the time I heard that she was sort of like the empire state
building moving through the water at 60 knots.

She was a big and fast ship, but I think 60 knots was out of her reach.

Last I knew she was laid up in Norfolk, Virginia. There is a fine
exhibit about her at the mariners Museum in Newport News; She was built
at newport news Shipbuilding and Drydock Company.

Also, she is SS United States, not USS.

"SS" means Steam Ship. "USS" means United States Ship, the designation
of a U. S. Navy vessel, from the age of fighting sail to the present age
of nuclear and gas turbine ships.
She was a steam ship and fast. The fastest of them all and she in not
in Norfolk, she is just about a mile from my house here in
Philadelphia. Actually I was thinking of something else at the time
and typed the wrong stuff in. Her top speed was 43 knots.

The SS US held the speed record for almost 50 years.
A little info here. Interesting bit about her hull which I was not
aware of.

http://www.ssunitedstates.org/rhw.htm
Even that speed is incorrect. The value of 43 knots (49 mph) was
leaked to reporters by engineers after the first speed trial. The
actual top speed — 38.3 knots (44.1 mph) — was not revealed until
1977.