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Woodcut print of the wreck of the S.S. Tararua: Terukuni Maru: 1929 Struck a mine and sank in 1939 off the coast of the United Kingdom: Terukuni Maru: RMS Titanic: 1911 Struck an iceberg and sank, April 15, 1912, on her maiden voyage SS Transylvania: 1914 Torpedoed and sunk on May 4, 1917, by German U-boat U-63: R.M.S. Transylvania. RMS ...
SS Drottningholm was a steam turbine ocean liner. One of the earliest of her type, she was designed as a transatlantic liner and mail ship for Allan Line, built in Scotland, and launched in 1904 as RMS Virginian. In the First World War Virginian spent a few months as a troopship, then was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC).
SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch transatlantic ocean liner that was built in 1938 and scrapped in 1974. She was the second Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) ship to be named after the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam , now New York .
The Kaiser-class ocean liners or Kaiserklasse refer to four transatlantic ocean liners of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a German shipping company. Built by the AG Vulcan Stettin between 1897 and 1907, these ships were designed to be among the largest and best appointed liners of their day.
SS Imperator. The Imperator-class was a series of three large ocean liners designed and built for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). Envisaged by HAPAG chairman, Albert Ballin, the three ships - Imperator, launched in 1912; Vaterland, launched in 1913; and Bismarck, launched in 1914 - each displaced over 50,000 tons, with each successively holding the title of the world's largest passenger ship.
One nautical historian called Arizona "a souped up transatlantic hot rod." [2] Entering service in 1879, she was the prototype for Atlantic express liners until the Inman Line introduced its twin screw City of New York in 1889. The Arizona type liner is generally considered as unsuccessful because too much was sacrificed for speed. [3]
RMS Sylvania was an ocean liner built in 1957 by John Brown & Company, in Glasgow, Scotland for Cunard.She was the last Cunard vessel built specifically for transatlantic crossings. [6]
MV Britannic was a British transatlantic ocean liner that was launched in 1929 and scrapped in 1961. She was the penultimate ship built for White Star Line before its 1934 merger with Cunard Line . When built, Britannic was the largest motor ship in the UK Merchant Navy .