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Reported fleet size
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Container capacity
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Gross tonnage on record
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In brief
The United States Mail Steamship Company – also called the United States Mail Line, or the U.S. Mail Line – was a passenger steamship line formed in 1920 by the United States Shipping Board (USSB) to run the USSB's fleet of former German ocean liners that the United States had seized during World War I or been awarded as war reparations after the end of the war. Receivers were appointed for the line after financial improprieties and massive losses came to light. After review of the financial data, a United States District Court ordered that all the US Mail Line ships be returned to the USSB.
Origin
United States Mail Steamship Company was founded in 1920 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Founder
United States Shipping Board
emergency agency by the 1916 Shipping Act
Photo: Harris & Ewing, photographer · Public domain · file
Corporate profile
Vessel records
No individual ships attributed to this company yet
The company is on record, but no vessel in the registry currently names it as operator or owner. Nothing is invented to fill this space.
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which United States Mail Steamship Company ranks 111th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.
Founded in 1920, United States Mail Steamship Company is 106 years old. This directory holds 57 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q7890710, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from United States Mail Steamship Company on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.