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.