“BUILDING NEW SUPERLINER UNITED STATES“ 1950s SS UNITED STATES NEWSREEL XD49234

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1950s black and white newsreel style film produced by William Ganz is titled “Building New Superliner United States” details, as the title suggests, the process behind designing and building the Superliner United States or SS United States as it was also known. The building of the ship was sponsored by the Maritime Commission as part of their post-war program that sought to establish a new passenger liner for North Atlantic Service docking in New York, Southampton, England, and Le Havre, France. The contract for constructing the ship, which was described as being larger than “the 70-story Rockefeller Center,” was signed in 1949 and the ship was ultimately designed by naval architect William Francis Gibbs of the firm Gibbs and Cox Naval Architects. The ship was designed to be converted into a troopship in time of war, and featured many safety innovation