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Wrecked near South Stack, Anglesey on June 6, 1875 [1] SS Nieuw Amsterdam: 1937 Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1974 Nieuw Amsterdam at Hook of Holland in 1949. SS Northern Star: 1961 Scrapped in 1975 S.S. Northern Star: RMS Nova Scotia: 1926 Torpedoed and sank in 1942 R.M.S. Nova Scotia: RMS Oceanic: 1870 Scrapped in 1896 SS Oceanic in 1895 ...
SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, [4] constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962.
RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage on 6 September 1899 and was the largest ship in the world until 1901. [1] At the outbreak of World War I she was converted into an armed merchant cruiser. On 8 August 1914 she was commissioned into Royal Navy service.
As of 2025, RMS Queen Mary 2 is the only ocean liner still in service. An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. . Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ship
SS United States is a retired American ocean liner that was built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines.She is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction, earning the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952, a title that remains uncontested.
This is a list of the 30 largest container shipping companies as of March 2025, according to Alphaliner, ranked in order of the twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) capacity of their fleet. [1]
The SS United States, a historic ship that still holds the transatlantic speed record it set more than 70 years ago, must leave its berth on the Delaware River in Philadelphia by Sept. 12, a ...
A four-funnel liner, also known as a four-stacker, is an ocean liner with four funnels. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse , launched in 1897, was the first ocean liner to have four funnels and was one of the first of the golden era of ocean liners that became prominent in the 20th century.