Size:    990 feet, (over 3 football fields long)  17 stories tall.

Weight: 53,290 tons.

Accommodations: 1,972 passengers 1,044 crew.

Built by: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.

Architect: William Francis Gibbs:

In service: from 1952-1969.

Features: Three dinning rooms; kitchen could serve 9000 meals per day; 26 public rooms; three passengers bars; two theaters; heated seawater pool; 19 elevators; more than seven miles of walkways; more than five acres of open deck space.

Propulsion: quadruple screws; geared steam turbine; oil fuel. Maximum official speed: 38.32 knots ( 44mph);  unofficial speed: 44 knots ( 51 mph); cruising speed 32 knots.

Paint: More than 92,000 gallons in more than 100 colors.

Provisions: 123,000 lb meat:  24,458 lb seafood:  58,595 lb fruit:  65,932 lb vegetables:  12,00 qt of milk:  7,000 bottles of wine & 16,000 of beer & ale.

Current location: Pier 82, Philadelphia. Owner Edward Cantor, Cantor Affiliated Interest, Linden NJ.

First: North Atlantic speed record; 3 days, 10 hrs, 40 min. Last superliner built in the United States; first ocean liner with air condition in all passenger spaces; first ocean liner with ship-to-shore telephones in all staterooms; first ( and last) ocean liner built to Navy Standards.