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SS Devonian (1900) 1900 Torpedoed and sunk, August 21, 1917 The S.S. Devonian in port. RMS Doric: 1922 Scrapped in 1935 R.M.S. Doric in 1923: SS Dover Castle: 1904 Torpedoed and sunk by UC-67 on May 26, 1918 RMS Duchess of Atholl: 1928 Torpedoed and sunk by U-178 on October 10, 1942. RMS Duchess of Atholl: SS Duchess of York: 1928
However, she was the largest, the fastest, and the most luxurious of the Big Four, being the first ocean liner to have an indoor swimming pool and Victorian-style Turkish baths. [ 1 ] She began her career on the brand new route from Southampton to New York before joining, from 1911, her sister ships on the secondary route from Liverpool.
RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage on 6 September 1899 and was the largest ship in the world until 1901. [ 1 ] At the outbreak of World War I she was converted into an armed merchant cruiser .
The Kaiser-class ocean liners or Kaiserklasse refer to four transatlantic ocean liners of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a German shipping company. Built by the AG Vulcan Stettin between 1897 and 1907, these ships were designed to be among the largest and best appointed liners of their day.
RMS Ivernia was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, built by the company C. S. Swan & Hunter of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and launched in 1899.The Ivernia was one of Cunard's intermediate ships, that catered to the vast immigrant trade between Europe and the United States of America in the early 20th century.
Patricia was the last to be built of HAPAG's four P-class ocean liners, all of which were completed in the second half of the 1890s. Harland and Wolff launched the first of them, Pennsylvania, in 1896. Blohm & Voss launched Pretoria in 1897 and Graf Waldersee in 1898. AG Vulcan Stettin launched Patricia on 20 February 1899 and completed her ...
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RMS Majestic was a British ocean liner working on the White Star Line’s North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Bismarck.At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship ever operated by the White Star Line under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in 1935.