List of passenger ships built in the United States
Shipyards in the United States built dozens of deepwater passenger ships from 1900 to 1958.
Their construction was spurred by the Merchant Marine Act of 1920, which says that only ships built and registered in the United States may sail solely between the country's ports, and by the Merchant Marine Act of 1928, whose government loans led the International Mercantile Marine Company and other U.S. shipping lines to order new ships through World War II.
The largest passenger liner ever built in the United States was the SS United States, completed in 1952. The last large passenger liner to be completed was Moore-McCormack Lines' SS Argentina in 1958.
The only U.S.-built deepwater passenger ships still in existence are the United States, former converted cargo liner SS Medina, cargo/passenger liner NS Savannah, and the partly US-built Pride of America.
Today, only small coastal and river passenger ships are still built in the U.S. and fly the American flag.
Shipyards
The primary yards that built passenger ships in the 20th century include:- Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Ltd., Newport News, Virginia
- Ingalls Shipyards, Pascagoula, Mississippi
- Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts
- William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- New York Shipbuilding of Camden, New Jersey
- Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, Kearny, NJ
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