1940 - The SS America stopped at Miami on her maiden voyage as the flagship of the United States Line on this date. The SS America would be commissioned as a troop transport ship shortly after this voyage on May 28, 1941. The newly named USS West Point would go on to transport over 350,000 troops and personnel in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, more than any other U.S. Navy troop transport ship during WWII. After the war the SS America would once again carry civilian passengers until it wrecked in the Canary Islands in 1993.