United States

shipstamps · Post by **shipstamps** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:14 am

UNITED STATES
Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co, Newport News, Virginia, USA.
Completed: 1952.
Gross tonnage: 50924.
Dimensions: 990ft x 102ft. Depth 72ft. Engines: Four steam turbines, double-reduction geared.
Screws: Quadruple.
Decks: Seven.
Normal speed: 33 knots.
Passenger accommodation: 882 first, 524 cabin and 544 tourist class.
Maiden voyage: New York—Le Havre—Southampton on July 3, 1952.

Employed in the New York—Le Havre—Southampton service with a call at Cobh in the summer and or to Bremerhaven in winter.
She is also used for cruising on occasion. Won the Blue Riband on her maiden voyage from the Cunard Line's Queen Mary by making the run from Ambrose Lighthouse to Bishop Rock in 3 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes at a speed of 35.59 knots.
She is the largest merchant ship ever built in the United States of America at a cost of over $73 million dollars.
The United States is the Lines' flagship and the recaptress of the Blue Riband lost for over a century by the United States of America.
Equipped with motion stabilisers and fully air-conditioned, she is the fastest ship in the world with a potential speed of over 36 knots.
She was designed with wartime specifications in mind having a troop capacity for 14,000 fully equipped men.
Her superstructure is of aluminium and she is claimed to be virtually fireproof, with all her interior funiture constructed out of lightweight metals.
Laid up on November 8, 1969, at Newport News as a result of the expiration of the Line's operating-differential-subsidy agreement with the Federal Government.
Since the termination of this subsidy in 1969, losses for the fiscal year of 1970 were between four and five million dollars and it is difficult to say whether the flagship of the United States Lines will ever sail again wearing the proud colours of her Line and country.

Antigua 1987. 90c. SG1106. Barbuda 1987. 90c. SG956, Bhutan 1966. 5nu. S5683. Cook Is 1979. 35c. SG640. Guinea 1974. 10s. SG861. Int. Phil Exhib. Label 1952. NC Paraguay 1986. 4gs. NC. Staffa 1981.Local issue. 45p. NC Monaco 1950. 2f SG D481. St Vin SG1226(LB 10/14. 11/66. 12/59. 17/9-70-104-237. EWA Vo2. p40)

North Atlantic Liners since 1900 by N T Cairis

aukepalmhof · Post by **aukepalmhof** » Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:30 am

1969 Laid up in Philadelphia.
2019 Still laid up in Philadelphia.

Guinea 1974 10s sg861
Cook Islands 1980 35c sg691, scott?
United Stated 1964 5c sg?, scott 1258.