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...
which incidentally also carried passengers in the XIXth century. This started with not really passenger-friendly steamers to the classic rival liners that chased the famous “blue ribbond” fast, luxurious leviathans on the conveyed Atlantic line (to New York) in the 1900-1940, and to this da...
Luxury Liner Row: Ocean Liners at New York Tom Powderly Tuesday 19th August 2025 Photographs of the line-ups of legendary liners occupying the Hudson piers through the twentieth century, yielding to cruise ships as the twenty-first dawned, are internationally known. In this talk Tom Powderly ...
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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, ...
Deckchair from the Titanic – Museum of the City of New York, gift of Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, 2013. The ocean liner has been appropriated into pop-culture, literature and films, including Ronald Neame’s dystopianThe Poseidon Adventure(1972) and James Cameron’sTitanic(1997), which remains ...
The Only Way to Cross, John Maxtone-Graham's classic history of the great transatlantic liners, was published twenty years ago, followed in 1985 by Liners to the Sun, his colorful sequel about life aboard cruise ships. Now, with Crossing & Cruising, he completes his definitive survey of pa...
Many ships passed at close range as they were directly in the east/west sea-lane to New York. There was a quick discussion with author's quartermaster, a quick apologetic set of signals, and then a huge burst of wa...
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...
It is interesting how menus on the Great Ocean Liners were prepared. Each ship had its own print shop. The beautiful menu covers were custom printed by superb printing facilities on land in advance. These were delivered to the ships with the inside (menu portion) blank. Daily the Chef ...