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Originally ordered by the Maritime Commission (MC hull 687) during World War II, as one of the Admiral W. S. Benson-class Type P2-SE2-R1 transport ships, completed instead as passenger ship. 1950s SS Independence: February 1951 American Export Lines: Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts [26] Henry ...
The busiest years for the Patrick Henry, and its firm, were between 1847 and 1851 when 2,769 passenger ships, mostly packets, sailed from Liverpool, carrying 765,159 passengers. Between 1845 and 1855 more than two million people left Ireland, on primarily packet ships but also steamboats and barks —one of the greatest mass exoduses from a ...
382 to 850 first class and steerage passengers: Notes: The first ship to use electric light bulbs, and the first use besides Edison's lab of electric light. [7] Columbia was equipped with four watertight bulkheads. It also featured eight metal lifeboats, one wooden lifeboat, one wooden workboat, five life rafts and 537 life preservers.
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
A passenger ship is a merchant ship whose primary function is to carry passengers on the sea. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters [definition needed] once common on the seas in which the transport of passengers is secondary to the carriage of freight.
The luxury and technology of ships were also evolving. Auxiliary sails became obsolete and disappeared completely at the end of the century. Possible military use of passenger ships was envisaged and, in 1889, RMS Teutonic became the first auxiliary cruiser in history. In the time of war, ships could easily be equipped with cannons and used in ...
Mary and John was a 400-ton ship that is known to have sailed between England and the American colonies four times from 1607 to 1634. Named in tribute to John and Mary Winthrop [2] she was captained by Robert Davies and owned by Roger Ludlow (1590–1664), one of the assistants of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [3]
SS Baltic was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamer built in 1850 for transatlantic service with the American Collins Line.Designed to outclass their chief rivals from the British-owned Cunard Line, Baltic and her three sister ships—Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic—were the largest, fastest and most luxurious transatlantic steamships of their day.