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Wrecked near Beirut, 22 December 1952, scrapped on sight. SS Cheribon: 1882 Wrecked on April 11, 1902, at Remedios Point, Panama MS Chrobry: 1939 Scuttled in 1940 by British torpedo after being damaged by German aircraft SS Chusan: 1949 Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1973, work completed in 1974. SS City of Adelaide: 1863 Ran aground in 1916
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 ...
In the war, the liner transported 300,000 soldiers, both in the Atlantic and in the Indian Ocean. [61] After France was liberated, Henri Cangardel was again replaced by Jean Marie. Of the large liners, only the Île-de-France survived (the Paris caught fire shortly before the conflict), and it had to undergo a major refit after its war service ...
SS Île de France was a French luxury ocean liner that plied the prestigious transatlantic route between Europe and New York from 1927 through to 1958. She was built in Saint-Nazaire for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (or CGT, also known as the "French Line"), and named after the region around Paris known as "L'Ile de France".
RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line.Along with the Queen Mary, she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France.
Ship Image Entered Service In service Status Notes United States: 1952 1952–1969 Laid up in Philadelphia, PA, scheduled to be sunk [2]: Built as the fastest transatlantic liner.
RMS Empress of Britain was a transatlantic ocean liner built by Fairfield Shipbuilding at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland in 1955-1956 [1] for Canadian Pacific Steamships (CP). This ship — the third of three CP vessels to be named Empress of Britain [2] —regularly traversed the trans-Atlantic route between Canada and Europe until 1964, completing 123 voyages under the Canadian Pacific flag.
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