Picture History of the SS United States
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Picture History of the SS United States - William H., Jr. Miller
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CHAPTER I
United States Lines: The Early Fleet
By the end of the First World War, the world’s collective passenger fleet was devastated. Britain’s Cunard Line lost more than half of its ships alone. Others, like the White Star Line, lost their leading ships, while the once prominent Germans, namely the Hamburg America Line and North German Lloyd, were crippled. Their losses were high, and almost all remaining passenger ships were taken by the Allied nations as reparations. In fact, the three largest liners then afloat, Hamburg America’s Imperator, Vaterland, and the incomplete Bismarck, changed flags. They became the British Berengaria, the American Leviathan, and the British Majestic, respectively. Many other ex-German liners were in American hands, some still serving as troop transports and others waiting at anchor for calls to commercial services following Yankee makeovers. Even a trio of grand four-stackers, once the pride of the Kaiser’s transatlantic fleet, were kept in mothballs, rumored to be awaiting a revival as rebuilt, modernized luxury ships under the Stars and