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  2. List of ocean liners - Wikipedia

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    SS Great Britain: 1843 Preserved as a museum ship SS Great Eastern: 1858 Scrapped in 1889 S.S. Great Eastern in dock. Great Eastern, pictured with 4 funnels. SS Great Western: 1837 Scrapped in 1856 The Great Western riding a tidal wave, painted 11 December 1844: Hikawa Maru: 1929 Preserved as a museum ship SS Himalaya: 1948

  3. Transatlantic crossing - Wikipedia

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    The final leg of the first transatlantic crossing was about a 20-hour flight from the Azores to Craw Field in Port Lyautey , French Morocco. [19] [20] Beginning in the 1950s, the predominance of ocean liners began to wane when larger, jet-powered airplanes began carrying passengers across the ocean in less and less time. The speed of crossing ...

  4. Ocean liner - Wikipedia

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    Cunard's transatlantic liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, was also used as a cruise ship. [4] By the early 1960s, 95% of passenger traffic across the Atlantic was by aircraft. Thus the reign of the ocean liners came to an end. [73] By the early 1970s, many passenger ships continued their service in cruising.

  5. Blue Riband - Wikipedia

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    The two liners were operated as a pair and traded the Blue Riband again, with the Cunard White Star Liner ultimately posting 30.99 knots (57.39 km/h) in 1938. [17] Queen Mary's consort, Queen Elizabeth , was commissioned after war was declared and was never allowed to attempt the record.

  6. SS Normandie - Wikipedia

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    SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT). She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.

  7. Compagnie Générale Transatlantique - Wikipedia

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    The first years of the company witnessed a great disorganization: the shipping routes multiplied in an anarchic way. A great part of the initial capital was thus used up. [4] After this near-bankruptcy, the Péreires understood that, like the Cunard Line, they would be better of focusing on an ocean liner service financed by postal agreements ...

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