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joevan added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

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.

43 knots?! That's about 50 mph! I didn't know any transatlantic
liner was that fast, although I knew the United States took the
record back from Cunard.

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HP, aka Jerry

"That's all I have to say about that" - Forrest Gump

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joevan added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

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.

That's still awfully fast!

--
HP, aka Jerry

"That's all I have to say about that" - Forrest Gump