The SS United States had a distinguished career as a transatlantic steamship. Now, officials in Florida plan to turn it into ...

Naval architect William Francis Gibbs designed it to be a luxury ocean liner in peacetime that could quickly switch to transporting 14,000 troops in wartime if needed. The vessel broke the trans ...

As we began following this story of the ship, I discovered my great grandparents and other family had once sailed upon SS United States.

Designed by naval architect William Francis Gibbs, the liner was constructed in the early 1950s as both a luxury ocean liner and a wartime transport capable of carrying 14,000 troops. Its maiden ...

William Francis Gibbs, and president of the SS United States Conservancy. “As the fastest ship to ever cross the Atlantic travels for the first time since arriving in Philadelphia in 1996 ...

Designed by naval architect William Francis Gibbs, the ship was a pinnacle of American engineering and maritime power at a time when ocean liners still dominated transatlantic travel. Open the ...