Designed to Be Unsinkable, the World’s Fastest Ocean Liner Finally Hits the Ocean Floor. The 53,330-Ton S.S. ‘United States’ Is Now the World’s Largest Artificial Reef
On July 3, 1952, the S.S. United States reached England in a record-breaking three days, 10 hours and 40 minutes, a speed that has yet to be surpassed to this day by any passenger liner.