Word: troopship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hard to Sink. The United States narrowly missed being finished as a troopship. Only a change of heart by the Defense Department last fall (TIME, Nov. 13) allowed her to be fitted out as a civilian luxury liner. But Naval Architect William Francis Gibbs, who devised the mass-production method of building the Liberty ships, planned the United States so that she can be converted in a short time to carry 14,000 troops. Below decks the United States has the same watertight compartments which make Navy ships hard to sink. To keep the ship fireproof, no wood has been...
...ship, the SS Svalbard, will arrive in Rotterdam on July 2 and return from Europe on August 313. The Svalbard, like the Volendam currently being used by the NSA and other organizations, is a former troopship, and accommodations will be austere. Recreation and orientation facilities will be provided on board the ship...
...National Student Association last night announced the availability for lowcost student travel this summer of an ex-Norwegian troopship and the Dutch Airlines...