SS United States

[lyndarra]

Interesting program on the teev last night. The story of the SS United States.

Anyone else see it? The show claimed it still holds the record for Atlantic crossing, 3 days 10 hours IIRC.

[arxcards]

29 minutes ago, lyndarra said:

Interesting program on the teev last night. The story of the SS United States.

Anyone else see it? The show claimed it still holds the record for Atlantic crossing, 3 days 10 hours IIRC.

The record is one of conjecture. In a traditional liner sense, SS United States will forever hold that record. There is no call for a transatlantic passenger liner service these days, so speed is no longer a selling point. Branson tried to claim the blue ribband, but was knocked back as it wasn't done by a passenger vessel. By definition, some fast cat passenger vessels have since done the trip in less than three days, but there is no interest without the romance of a passenger liner.

 

And then, the SS United States is her own continuing story to the current day.

[MicCanberra]

Not that fast really, I know some that have crossed the Atlantic in 5 hrs in a (jet) liner. Lol