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Show Superiiner United States Carried Over , 200,000 Passengers In Three Years !Xx it t ! Sasssc:, Three years ago (July 14, 1952) the superliner United States, flagship of the United States Lines, completed her maiden voyage and established a new eastbound and westbound trans-Atlantic trans-Atlantic speed record. Her eastbound crossing was made in 3 days, 10 hours and 40 minutes at an average of 35.5 knots, approximately 41 land miles per hour. On her return crossing to New York she set a new westbound record of 3 days, 12 hours and. 12 minutes. It was the first time in almost al-most 100 years that an American flag vessel won the coveted Blue Riband of the Atlantic. Since the United States entered service July 3rd. 1952, she has carried a total of 207,807 passengers. In her third year of operation from July 6, 1954 to July 5, 1955 she carried a total of 68,455 passengers, an average of 3,112 for ach round trip. She has crossed the Atlantic 134 times and has traveled 427,752 nautical nauti-cal miles between light vessels, a distance dis-tance equivalent to approximately 17 times around the world. Throughout this entire distance she has maintained main-tained an average speed of 30.63 knots which is about 35 land miles per hour. While primarily a passenger vessel, the United States also carried 27,527 tons of high class cargo and 3,330 automobiles of passengers aboard. She also carried over 750,000 sacks of mail. During her three years of service the vessel's shafts have never been stopped or slowed down at sea due to machinery derangement. The ship's tremendous air conditioning system I which services all state rooms, public pub-lic rooms, crew's quarters and all working areas and is in use on every j voyage throughout the year, has f jnctioned perfectly for three ears without interruption. u |