In re The S.S. United States

AndersonGlenn served as General Counsel to Marmara Marine and later, the S.S. United States Corporation.

We successfully negotiated maritime liens and replevin of the World’s Fastest Ocean Liner, the S.S. United States from Istanbul, Turkey. The ocean liner was towed through the Marmara Straits and across the Atlantic to the Philadelphia ship yard (where she rests today) following the death of Edward A. Cantor, the real estate magnate behind the attempts to restore her to her former glory. The S.S. United States was constructed entirely of aluminum, even the piano in the main gallery, to decrease weight and give her great speed. Designed in the mid-1950’s as a means of getting combat troops to Europe in the vent of war with the Soviet Union, she entered service in 1958, just in time for the Boeing 707 to begin transatlantic service and end the era of the ocean liner. The efforts by Cantor to purchase and restore her brought reams of admiralty litigation, all of which the firm handled.