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Maiden Voyage 70th Anniversary T-shirt
Hanes Authentic T-shirt
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About this campaign
The SS United States Conservancy is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the maiden voyage of America’s Flagship with this limited-edition t-shirt.
When she set sail from New York on July 3, 1952, the SS United States was the epitome of mid-century modern design, American innovation, and technological supremacy. Steaming to Europe with notable Americans including Margaret Truman and Bob Hope aboard, she smashed the transatlantic speed record in both directions and captured the Blue Riband – a record she still holds today.
Seventy years later, thanks to the dedicated stewardship of the SS United States Conservancy, she remains afloat, and continues to be a symbol of American pride and a proud icon of our collective strength, our can-do spirit, and the values that unite us.
The SS United States Conservancy, a national non-profit organization, is committed to saving America’s Flagship, the SS United States. The Conservancy has also developed an extraordinary collection of art, artifacts and historical documents related to America’s Flagship, to be displayed in a future ship-board museum. Your support will enable us to continue working to save the ship as well as building and curating our collections and developing exciting new digital exhibitions.
For more information about the SS United States, visit www.ssusc.org. You can also find the Conservancy using @SSUSC on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
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My husband, E, J. Heins, Jr., was plumber on the maiden voyage and later chief plumber. My son, Eddie J. Heins, III (age 6 at the time) and I left from LeHavre on May 2nd 1963 for New York, where my husband met us and some old shipmates.
My grandfather helped design the power plant.
I was born the year SS US first sailed. As a teenager I worked on the west side of Manhattan near Ocean Liner Row. I became a boiler tech in the USN then an officer, I know what propulsion takes and how she was the ultimate
Purchasing this T-Shirt for my friend who was on the maidan voyage.
Lifelong Philly resident and hope to see her restored
made 2 transatlantic voyages as a child in 1957 and 1962.