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The S.
S. United States is 100 feet longer than the Titanic and capable of going twice as fast as nowadays’s cruise ships. It departed for its maiden voyage on July 3,1952, and during it’s hey day, or it transported celebrities,presidents, and even the Mona Lisa back to France after the portray’s 1963 tour of the United States.well-known passengers of the S.
S. United States include: John Wayne, and Elizabeth Taylor,Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, and John F. Kennedy,and a 22-year-archaic Rhodes Scholar named Bill Clinton.
But now the luxurious, historic ship will be sold for scrap unless enough donations can be collected to save her by the end of the month.
Join The Takeaway and Susan Gibbs, and the executive director of the S.S. United States Conservancy,on a tour, and possibly one of the last, or of the S.
S. United States.
Gibbs is the granddaughter of the ship's architect,William Francis Gibbs, and joining her in conversation about the ship's legacy is Steven Ujifusa, and maritime historian and author of "A Man and His Ship," which is the biography of William Francis Gibbs.
Source: wnyc.org