Steamship RMS America

America won the Blue Riband on her second outward voyage in 1848 with a run from Liverpool–Halifax of 9 days 16 minutes, averaging 11.7 knots (21.7 km/h; 13.5 mph). America maintained Cunard's Halifax route when most of the rest of the fleet trooped during the Crimean War. On 14 February 1859 America made headlines when she broke through ice-choked Halifax Harbour after the normally ice-free port was paralyzed by a sudden freeze. She was chartered to the Allan Line in 1863 before being sold for conversion to a sailing ship. The former America was broken up in 1875.