Manchester Township Officer Antonio Ellis spent 45 days in intensive care, including 30 days in a coma. He calls the S.S. United States his "Ship of Hope."
Action News 6: New Jersey police officer visits the "ship of hope" that helped him through COVID
Travelore Report: This Date in History - July 7 1952,
America’s Flagship, the SS United States, departed New York seventy years ago on July 3, 1952 with great fanfare -- and high expectations. She was the epitome of American post-war innovation, engineering, and design. A new global ambassador for the nation, she was conceived by noted naval architect William Francis Gibbs, whose firm had been the designers of major World War II era warships.