USS United States CVA-58
USS United States (CVA-58) was to be the lead ship of a new design of aircraft carrier. On 29 July 1948, President Harry Truman approved construction of five “supercarriers”, for which funds had been provided in the Naval Appropriations Act of 1949. The keel of the first of the five planned postwar carriers was laid down on 18 April 1949 at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding. The program was canceled in 1949, United States was not completed, and the other four planned carriers were never built.
Artist’s rendering of the proposed USS United States 
Workmen lay the ship’s 15-ton keel plate 
Workmen lay the ship’s 15-ton keel plate 
Preliminary design model of the future USS United States (CVA-58) undergoing seakeeping tests 
Preliminary design model of the future USS United States (CVA-58) undergoing seakeeping tests 
Preliminary design model of the future USS United States (CVA-58) undergoing seakeeping tests 
Preliminary design model of the future USS United States (CVA-58) undergoing seakeeping tests
