Passenger/cargo ship. Reported in July-1943 and on Sept. 14-1944 in Norwegian coastal service. Surveyed April-June 1944. According to this Guestbook message she struck a mine at Fakse bay in the morning of Nov. 20-1944; anchored up that evening (no further details). Reported Febr. 16-19...
Passenger vessel, Rotterdam service. WW II:Requisitioned by the German Navy in 1941, renamed MRS 3 (Minenräumschiff=minesweeper) with 10 motorboats aboard. At Helsingborg in Aug.-1943, at Oslo in May-1944. Sank on November 9-1944 in Dordrecht during a storm, later raised. ...
Buford, USAT— Americancargo/passenger ship Used to deport 249 non-citizens of the U.S. to Russia because of their alleged anarchist political beliefs; nicknamed theSoviet Ark.. In 1906, rescued over 600 passengers and crew from theSS Mongolia. In 1921, rescued 65 passengers and crew from ...
Around this time the notion that a passenger liner could be a floating hotel began to take shape and the next generation, including two ill-fated ships the Lusitania and the Titanic, had very luxurious first-class accommodation. The Lusitania displaced 31 550 tons and the Titanic 46383 tons. ...
liners were operated in the North Atlantic, notably bySamuel CunardofBritain, beginning in 1840.Cunardliners continued to be leaders, though soon joined by French, German, U.S., and other ships, subsidized by their national governments and competing in size, speed, and passenger accommodations....