On July 3, 1952, the USS United States departed from New York and arrived at Bishop's Wharf in the Port of Southampton.

It was the fastest mail ship ever to cross the Atlantic, with an average speed of 35.59 knots.

Since there will no longer be large mail ships equipped with battleship main engines in the future, this is the ultimate speed.

The days of luxury mailers plying the Atlantic vying for blue ribbon awards are over.

The fate of large mail ships after the war was already clear due to the advent of jet airliners.

The Cold War did not turn into a hot war between the United States and the Soviet Union (except for the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, in which the USS United States was already preparing for refit work).

The United States continued to lose money to its owner, the United States Shipping Company.

In 1969, the USS United States withdrew from route operations and was placed under trusteeship by the U.S. Federal Maritime Administration and idled as a strategic reserve resource.

United States Shipping Lines went bankrupt in 1992, and the USS USS was seized by the court and prepared for auction.

A company called "Comandor Company" wants to buy this 40-year-old ship, renovate it in Istanbul, and then sell it to Cunard Company, and put it into the summer Atlantic route and winter cruise together with the Queen Elizabeth II mail ship.

Caribbean cruise shipping.

Here I have to mention the luxurious interiors on the United States and the restaurant on the ship. But Cunard Company felt that the Elizabeth II, a luxury cruise ship, was enough.

The fate of the United States, waiting to be towed to Istanbul, seemed to be disintegration.

But in 1996, Americans voluntarily established a "United States Foundation" to drag it back to the United States for preservation.

It is now moored at the Philadelphia Naval Base and is undergoing a fund-raising restoration project.

The USS United States was registered as a National Historic Heritage in 1999.