240,000 Horsepower: The SS United States

This is the SS United States, the fastest big passenger ship ever built; the culmination of decades of hard lessons and battle-tested wartime design. She did not come to exist in a vacuum. In every part of her incredible design is a fascinating story and six great American ships had played a crucial role in shaping her development. From the incredible engines based on the powerplant of some of WW2’s fastest destroyers like the Fletcher and Mahan Class - the streamlining and fire safety standards pioneered by the finest liner of the late 1930s, the SS America - the lessons of metallurgy and construction efficiency in her hull taken from the incredible production run of the Liberty Ships - the elegant interiors brought into being by a pioneering design team that had worked on Grace Line's SS Santa Rosa - and finally the stringent, obsessive eye for safety that had saved the SS Malolo from sinking. All of these elements came together to create a legend and it was all down to a team of brilliant, pioneering American men and women - and the obsessive, brilliant mind of one of American engineering’s greatest sons: William Francis Gibbs

Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!

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0:00 Intro to the SS United States
05:51 Safety
12:47 Fireproofing & Streamlining
18:36 Interiors
22:21 Engines & Hull Designs

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