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George M. Verity is a historic towboat now displayed as a museum ship in Keokuk, Iowa. Built in 1927 as SS Thorpe, she is nationally significant for being one of only three surviving steam-powered towboats in existence in the United States. She was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1989. [2] [3]
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 ...
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 ...
Capital City (sternwheeler) SS Caracas (1881) Carrie Ladd; Charles H. Marshall (ship) Charles R. Spencer; SS Christopher Columbus; SS City of Berlin; SS City of Columbus; City of Detroit III; PS City of Erie; SS City of Lowell; City of Muskegon; SS City of Peking; SS City of Rio de Janeiro; City of Seattle (steam ferry) City of Taunton (ship ...
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.
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.
Sometimes these ships could reach 20 knots (37 km/h). "The Prinz Albert," 1897, by Antonio Jacobsen. Clippers were built for seasonal trades such as tea, where an early cargo was more valuable, or for passenger routes. The small, fast ships were ideally suited to low-volume, high-profit goods, such as spices, tea, people, and mail. The values ...
Famous Ocean Liners: The Story of Passenger Shipping, from the Turn of the Century to the Present Day ISBN 978-0-85059-876-6 (1987) Liner: Fifty Years of Passenger Ship Photographs ISBN 978-0-85059-765-3 (1987) Great Cruise Ships and Ocean Liners from 1954 to 1986: A Photographic Survey ISBN 978-0-486-25540-8 (1988)