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Ocean liners have a strong impact on popular culture, whether during their golden age or afterwards. In 1867, Jules Verne recounted his experience aboard SS Great Eastern in his novel A Floating City .
Hikawa Maru was completed on 25 April 1930. Her maiden voyage was 13 May 1930 for Yokohama –Seattle. Arrived at Seattle on 27 May. She sailed 73 times until August 1941. Her service was popular, and the cuisine was well-regarded, as NYK Line employed a chef trained in Europe. Hie Maru was completed on 31 July 1930.
Four-funnel liner. 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. [1]
William Henry Miller Jr. (born May 3, 1948) is a maritime author and historian who has written numerous books dealing with the golden age of ocean liners. Miller was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on May 3, 1948, as the oldest of three children. In addition to his teaching career and writing over 40 books and many articles on the great liners, he ...
The ocean liners Orcades. SS Orduña: 1913 Scrapped in 1951 – Scotland S.S. Orduña in New York. SS Oregon: 1883 Collided with an unidentified schooner, and sank in 1886 off Long Island, New York S.S. Oregon: SS Oriana: 1959 Scrapped in 2005 S.S. Oriana in Vava'u, Tonga, circa 1985: RMS Orion: 1934 Scrapped in 1963 R.M.S. Orion: SS Oronsay: 1924
1,180. SS Imperator (known as RMS Berengaria for most of her career) was a German ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line, launched in 1912. At the time of her completion in June 1913, she was the largest passenger ship in the world, surpassing the new White Star liner Olympic.
892 crew members. The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th century, named Olympic (1911), Titanic (1912) and Britannic (1914). All three were designated to be the largest as well as most luxurious liners of the era, devised to provide ...
SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service in 1953. She is widely known from the extensive media coverage of her sinking in 1956, which included the remarkably successful rescue of 1,660 of her 1,706 passengers and crew.