Ocean Liners RMS Lusitania steam ship ocean liner entering New York harbor These steam powered vessels carried passengers across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and America for nearly two centuries. During the height of transatlantic travel, these ships carried the wealthy, powerful, and famous to...
On 8 March 1875, a reckless Adriatic (1872) inbound from New York, hit and sank… Ocean Liners 3 March 2021 Bothnia the Stalwart Although largely unremembered today, Bothnia was one of the stalwart liners that helped make Cunard… 1 2 3 … 55 Next Ocean...
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New Atlantic liners were being built primarily by European ship lines. The new fleets were carrying up to 27,000 passengers each month in 1948. Competition from the airlines was beginning but flights between New York and Europe were lengthy usually including refueling stops at Gander, ...
In short, the SS Great Britain was really the first, true, transatlantic liner. She was large enough and well equipped enough to accommodate many more paying passengers than any ship before, and it was fast: In 15 days she was able to reach New York, burning 1,100 tons of coal to do...
Technical difficulties and projected high costs have scuttled a plan to reconstruct the historic ocean liner SS United States and return it to sea as a luxury cruise ship. After a six-month feasibility study, Crystal Cruises, which had announced its intention to buy and retrofit "America's ...
Travel by ocean liners had boomed after World War II, as new more comfortable ships were turned out by the world's shipyards. For example, there was United States Lines' record-breaking United States, dashing from New York to England and France in less than five days; Costa Line's trend...
NEW YORK—Australian mining enterpriser Clive Palmer on Tuesday unveiled(公布)blueprints for TitanicⅡ, a modern copy of the doomed ocean liner, although he didn’t call the ship unsinkable any more. The ship will largely recreate the design and decoration of the fabled original, with some modi...
For the next three years, the two liners battled it out, passing the Riband back and forth, and through refits, also the title of largest ship afloat. In 1939, France surrendered to Germany at the outbreak of what would be a second world conflict.Normandiewas in New York and was seized...
The Victoria & Albert Museum have excelled in their reimagining of the golden age of ocean travel with Ocean Liners: Speed and Style.