The S.S. United States, once a marvel of engineering and a symbol of American ... William Francis Gibbs, the liner was constructed in the early 1950s as both a luxury ocean liner and a wartime ...

“You can’t set her on fire, you can’t sink her and you can’t catch her,” as William Francis Gibbs, the ship ... more accessible in the ’60s, ocean liners became obsolete.

A storied ocean liner that has spent ... chapter in her uniquely American story," said conservancy head Susan Gibbs, granddaughter of the ship' designer, William Francis Gibbs.

The hulking and historic SS United States, a thousand-foot-long ocean liner ... American symbol is in peril,” said ...

The storied ocean liner ... her uniquely American story,” said Susan Gibbs, president of the SS United States Conservancy and granddaughter of the ship’s designer, William Francis Gibbs ...