They say the fate of a ship is determined by its name, so we wonder what fate had against the SS America? It had been through several name changes since it was built in 1940, but only ran into trouble when it was named in honor of its home country.
In the Second World War, the ship was used by the US Navy, and survived the conflict. It didn't survive a storm in 1994 which threw it aground and split it in two off the coast of the Canary Islands, though.