From that point on. it was all down hill so that today we have no U.S.-flag passenger vessels operating out of the east or gulf coasts. Pacific Far East Lines has the SS Mariposa and SS Monterey cruising out of west coast ports and PrudentialGrace Lines has several combination cargopassenger vessels operating out of the westcoast and down the west coast of South America. In connection with the massive refugee evacuation. I would like to point out that if the United States Lines SS United States were still in operation. she could have taken a hundred thousand of these refugee victims in one seallft. No events could point up better the necessity of maintaining some U.S.-flag passenger vessel capability. The poignant story of refugee sealift told in the press release set out below makes one sad at how much more could have been accomplished if the SS United States had been available. It also fills one with pride at the considerable accomplishment effectuated by these three cargo vessels in carrying refugees and in the great work of their U.S. crews. Time and again. over the years the U.S. maritime industry. both management and labor. have hammered upon the necessity of U.S.-fiag capabilityU.S. owned. U.S. operated. and U.S. crewed.
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