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Combined ocean liner/cruise ship. Ended service 1954. Later Berlin, scrapped 1966. Gripsholm: Swedish America Line: 1957: 23,191: Combined ocean liner/cruise ship, built as sister ship to the Kungsholm. Sold to Karageorgis Lines in 1975, renamed the Navarino. Sold to Regency Cruises in 1984 as the Regent Sea, operated until 1995. Sunk 2001. [8 ...
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
SS United States is a retired American ocean liner that was built during 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines.She is the largest ocean liner to be entirely constructed in the United States and the fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic Ocean in either direction, retaining the Blue Riband for the highest average speed since her maiden voyage in 1952, a title she still holds today.
The last large passenger liner to be completed in the United States was Moore-McCormack Lines' SS Argentina in 1958. [ 4 ] The only US-built deep water passenger ships still in existence today are the SS United States (laid up), former converted cargo liner SS Medina (hotel ship), cargo/passenger liner NS Savannah (museum ship), and the partly ...
An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships). [1] The Queen Mary 2 is the only ocean liner still in service to this day, serving with Cunard Line.
MV Doulos Phos is a retired ocean liner, and former cruise ship that held the record of being the world's oldest active ocean-going passenger ship, serving from 1914 until December 2009. She is now owned by Eric Saw, director and chief executive of BizNaz Resources International Pte Ltd in Singapore . [ 6 ]
Texas Gulf Coast is an intertidal zone which borders the coastal region of South Texas, Southeast Texas, and the Texas Coastal Bend.The Texas coastal geography boundaries the Gulf of Mexico encompassing a geographical distance relative bearing at 367 miles (591 km) of coastline according to CRS [1] and 3,359 miles (5,406 km) of shoreline according to NOAA.
Passenger-cargo liner: 13,350: Sold to Cogedar Line 1961, refitted as an ocean liner, renamed Flavia; sold to Virtue Shipping Company in 1969, renamed Flavian; sold to Panama, renamed Lavia in 1982, caught fire and sank in 1989 in Hong Kong Harbour during refitting and was scrapped afterwards in Taiwan [3] Asia: 1947: 1947–1963: Cargo ship: 8,723