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S.S. Duilio at sea. MV Durban Castle: 1938 Scrapped at Hamburg in 1962 SS Edinburgh Castle: 1910 Served in both wars sunk as a target near Sierra Leone on September 25, 1945 The Edinburgh Castle at port. RMS Edinburgh Castle: 1947 Scrapped 1976 The Edinburgh Castle at sea. SS Elbe: 1881 Collided with SS Crathie, and sank in the North Sea on ...
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
The fifth SS Rotterdam, also known as "The Grande Dame", is a former ocean liner and cruise ship, and has been a hotel ship in Rotterdam, Netherlands, since 2010.She was launched by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in a gala ceremony on 13 September 1958, and was completed the following summer.
Mined and sunk off Kea in the Aegean Sea as a hospital ship in November 1916. Belgic: 1914: 1917–1923: 27,132: Launched by Harland & Wolff in 1914 under Belgenland for IMM and completed in 1917 under Belgic as a troop carrier, then as a cargo/liner for trans-Atlantic routes. Transferred to Red Star Line under Belgenland in 1923.
MV Astoria is a ship that was constructed as the transatlantic ocean liner Stockholm for Swedish American Line, and rebuilt as a cruise ship in 1993. Ordered in 1944, and commenced service in 1948, at 76 years old, she is the oldest deep water passenger liner still around in a non retired status.
RMS Majestic was a British ocean liner working on the White Star Line’s North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Bismarck.At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship ever operated by the White Star Line under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in 1935.
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, Titanic and Britannic.
SS Minnewaska was a 21,716-ton ocean liner in the service of the Atlantic Transport Line and the Red Star Line from 1923–1933 . She was the fourth ship of the Atlantic Transport Line to carry the name "Minnewaska".