The S.S. UNITED STATES was built at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. in Newport News, Virginia which makes up part of the Hampton Roads. Her maiden voyage was in July 1952 and she was active until 1969 during which time she would make periodic visits to the "yard" for routine drydocking. When out of the "yard" it was an overnight sailing back to New York and an ideal opportunity for shipboard entertaining. Our Norfolk District Manager was a good old boy with many friends and clients in the tobacco industry and tobacco was the number one export from Norfolk at the time. He was given permission to entertain "freight customers" on those overnight junkets - call them "non-paying passengers" - one way - I never learned how they all got back to Norfolk but it must have been a happy bunch of Virginians.
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