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United States Lines

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United States Lines was an American transatlantic shipping company that operated cargo services from 1921 to 1989, and ocean liners until 1969—most famously, the. [1]

68 relations: Airliner, Albert Lasker, American Classic Voyages, American Line, Blue Riband, Bremen, Cargo ship, Chandris Line, CMA CGM, Container ship, Cranford, New Jersey, Crystal Cruises, Federal Bureau of Investigation, George Fried, International Mercantile Marine Co., International Mercantile Marine Company Building, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Kermit Roosevelt, Liquidation, List of ship companies, London, Malcom McLean, Mariners' Museum, Moore-McCormack, MS American Leader, Nazism, New Jersey, New York City, New York Passenger Ship Terminal, Newport News, Virginia, Norwegian Cruise Line, NY Waterway, Ocean liner, Panama Canal, Paul Wadsworth Chapman, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Pride of America, Privately held company, Project America, SS America (1939), SS Argentina (1929), SS California (1928), SS George Washington, SS Leviathan, SS President Roosevelt, SS Republic, SS United States, SS Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, ..., Transatlantic crossing, Troopship, TS Empire State VI, Type C7 ship, United American Lines, United States Mail Steamship Company, USAHS Acadia, USAHS Marigold, USNS Flyer, USS America (ID-3006), USS Antaeus (AG-67), USS Princess Matoika, USS Susquehanna (ID-3016), W. Averell Harriman, West Side Highway, World War I, World War II, WTKR. Expand index (18 more) »

Airliner

An airliner is a type of aircraft for transporting passengers and air cargo.

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Albert Lasker

Albert Davis Lasker (May 1, 1880 – May 30, 1952) was an American businessman who played a major role in shaping modern advertising.

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American Classic Voyages

American Classic Voyages was an American-based cruise ship holding company cruise line, headquartered in Chicago, that operated between 1993 and 2001.

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American Line

The American Line was a shipping company founded in 1871 and based in Philadelphia.

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Blue Riband

The Blue Riband is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed.

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Bremen

The City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen) is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany, which belongs to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (also called just "Bremen" for short), a federal state of Germany.

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Cargo ship

A cargo ship or freighter ship is any sort of ship or vessel that carries cargo, goods, and materials from one port to another.

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Chandris Line

Chandris Line was a Greece-based shipping company founded in 1960 by Anthony Chandris to operate ocean liners between Greece and Australia.

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CMA CGM

CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company.

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Container ship

Container ships (sometimes spelled containerships) are cargo ships that carry all of their load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.

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Cranford, New Jersey

Cranford is a township in Union County, New Jersey, United States.

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Crystal Cruises

Crystal Cruises is an American luxury cruise line with its headquarters in Los Angeles in the United States.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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George Fried

George Fried, (August 10, 1877 – July 25, 1949) a sea Captain with service in both the US Navy and Merchant Marine, is best remembered for his valiant rescue of the crews of the British steamship Antinoe in 1926 while captaining the luxury liner SS President Roosevelt and three years later the Italian freighter Florida while in command of the luxury liner USS America.

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International Mercantile Marine Co.

The International Mercantile Marine Co., originally the International Navigation Company, was a trust formed in the early twentieth century as an attempt by J.P. Morgan to monopolize the shipping trade.

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International Mercantile Marine Company Building

The International Mercantile Marine Company Building, also known as One Broadway and the "United States Lines-Panama Pacific Lines Building", is a historic office building located on Broadway in New York, New York.

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Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is an American military and maritime history museum with a collection of museum ships in New York City.

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Kermit Roosevelt

Kermit Roosevelt, MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer.

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Liquidation

In United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and United States law and business, liquidation is the process by which a company is brought to an end.

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List of ship companies

The following articles list companies that operate ships.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Malcom McLean

Malcom Purcell McLean (born Malcolm Purcell McLean; November 14, 1913 – May 25, 2001) was an American businessman.

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Mariners' Museum

The Mariners' Museum and Park is located in Newport News, Virginia, United States.

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Moore-McCormack

The Moore-McCormack Lines was a series of companies operating as shipping lines, operated by the Moore-McCormack Company, Incorporated later Moore-McCormack Lines, Incorporated and simply Mooremack, founded in 1913 in New York City.

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MS American Leader

MS American Leader was a merchant cargo ship which entered service for the United States Lines in 1941.

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Nazism

National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus), more commonly known as Nazism, is the ideology and practices associated with the Nazi Party – officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) – in Nazi Germany, and of other far-right groups with similar aims.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Passenger Ship Terminal

The Manhattan Cruise Terminal, formerly known as the New York Passenger Ship Terminal or Port Authority Passenger Ship Terminal (and also known as Luxury Liner Row or New York Cruise Terminal) is a terminal for ocean-going passenger ships in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, New York City.

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Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line is a subsidiary of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd, an American-Bermudian company operating cruise ships, headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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NY Waterway

NY Waterway, or New York Waterway, is a private transportation company running ferry and bus service in the Port of New York and New Jersey and in the Hudson Valley.

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Ocean liner

An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans.

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Panama Canal

The Panama Canal (Canal de Panamá) is an artificial waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean.

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Paul Wadsworth Chapman

Paul Wadsworth Chapman (1880-1954) was an American banker and businessman based in Chicago.

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Popular Mechanics

Popular Mechanics is a classic magazine of popular science and technology.

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Popular Science

Popular Science (also known as PopSci) is an American quarterly magazine carrying popular science content, which refers to articles for the general reader on science and technology subjects.

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Pride of America

MS Pride of America is a cruise ship built in the United States and is operated by Norwegian Cruise Lines.

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Privately held company

A privately held company, private company, or close corporation is a business company owned either by non-governmental organizations or by a relatively small number of shareholders or company members which does not offer or trade its company stock (shares) to the general public on the stock market exchanges, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned and traded or exchanged privately.

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Project America

Project America was the designation for a contract between American Classic Voyages (AMCV) and the Litton Ingalls Shipyard of Pascagoula, Mississippi.

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SS America (1939)

SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines and was designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs.

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SS Argentina (1929)

SS Argentina was a US turbo-electric ocean liner.

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SS California (1928)

SS California was the World's first major ocean liner built with turbo-electric transmission.

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SS George Washington

SS George Washington was an ocean liner built in 1908 for the Bremen-based North German Lloyd and was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States.

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SS Leviathan

SS Leviathan, originally built as Vaterland, was an ocean liner which regularly crossed the North Atlantic from 1914 to 1934.

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SS President Roosevelt

SS President Roosevelt may refer to.

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SS Republic

SS Republic may refer to.

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SS United States

The SS United States is a retired luxury passenger liner built in 1950–51 for United States Lines at a cost of US$79.4 million ($ in). The ship is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic in either direction, retaining the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952.

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SS Washington

SS Washington was a 24,189-ton luxury liner of the United States Lines, named after the US capital city.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Transatlantic crossing

The Transatlantic crossings are passages of passengers and cargo across the Atlantic Ocean between the Americas and Europe or Africa.

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Troopship

A troopship (also troop ship or troop transport or trooper) is a ship used to carry soldiers, either in peacetime or wartime.

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TS Empire State VI

USTS Empire State VI (T-AP-1001), callsign KKFW, IMO number 5264510, is a troop ship of the United States Navy and training vessel of the United States Maritime Service.

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Type C7 ship

The Type C7 ship (Lancer Class) is a United States Maritime Administration (MARAD) designation for a cargo ship and the first purpose-built container ship.

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United American Lines

United American Lines, the common name of the American Shipping and Commercial Corporation, was a shipping company founded by W. Averell Harriman in 1920.

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United States Mail Steamship Company

The United States Mail Steamship Company – also called the United States Mail Line, or the U.S. Mail Line – was a passenger steamship line formed in 1920 by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) to run the USSB's fleet of ex-German ocean liners that had been seized by the United States during World War I or awarded as war reparations after the end of the war.

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USAHS Acadia

USAHS Acadia was the first United States Army Hospital Ship during World War II.

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USAHS Marigold

USAHS Marigold was a United States Army hospital ship during WWII.

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USNS Flyer

USNS Flyer (T-AG-178), was a type C2-S-B1 cargo ship of the United States Navy, built under Maritime Commission contract (MC hull 1209) by the Moore Dry Dock Company of Oakland, California as SS Water Witch.

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USS America (ID-3006)

USS America (ID-3006) was a troop transport for the United States Navy during World War I. She was launched in 1905 as SS Amerika by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Hamburg America Line of Germany.

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USS Antaeus (AG-67)

USS Antaeus (AS-21/AG-67) – later renamed USS Rescue (AH-18) – was a commercial passenger liner acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II and named USS Antaeus.

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USS Princess Matoika

USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. Before the war, she was a that sailed as SS Kiautschou for the Hamburg America Line and as SS Princess Alice (sometimes spelled Prinzess Alice) for North German Lloyd.

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USS Susquehanna (ID-3016)

USS Susquehanna (ID-3016) was a transport for the United States Navy during World War I. She was the second U.S. Navy ship to be named for the Susquehanna River.

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W. Averell Harriman

William Averell Harriman (November 15, 1891July 26, 1986) was an American Democratic politician, businessman, and diplomat.

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West Side Highway

The West Side Highway (officially the Joe DiMaggio Highway) is a mostly surface section of New York State Route 9A (NY 9A) that runs from West 72nd Street along the Hudson River to the southern tip of Manhattan in New York City.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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WTKR

WTKR, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 40), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area of southeastern Virginia (comprising the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, Virginia Beach and environs), and the Outer Banks region of northeastern North Carolina.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Lines

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