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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.
The liner as featured on the cover of Popular Science Monthly, April 1934 "New Streamlining for Big Ships", Popular Science Monthly, April 1934 [1] Streamlined superstructure of SS Princess Anne (designed 1933) [2] MV Kalakala (1935) [2] SS Princess Anne under way. Entered service 1936. [2] Bohn advertisement showing a streamlined ocean liner ...
Titanic II is a planned passenger ocean liner intended to be a functional modern-day replica of the Olympic-class RMS Titanic.The new ship is planned to have a gross tonnage (GT) of 56,000, while the original ship measured about 46,000 gross register tons (GRT).
This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted ...
But the massive ocean liner, which is bigger than the Titanic, had a massive problem. The SS United States travels down New York's Hudson River as it begins its first voyage to Europe in July 1952 ...
He was also the designer of the interiors of three ocean liners, the Ile-de-France (1926), the L'Atlantique (1930), and the Normandie (1935). [7] Patout's building on Avenue Victor lacked the curving lines of the American version of the style, but it had a narrow "bow" at one end, where the site was narrow, long balconies like the decks of a ...
The SS United States could travel at a speed of 38.32 knots (44.1 mph), which still holds the record for ocean liners.
Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people or goods via waterways. Freight transport by sea has been widely used throughout recorded history .