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Wrecked near South Stack, Anglesey on June 6, 1875 [1] SS Nieuw Amsterdam: 1937 Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1974 Nieuw Amsterdam at Hook of Holland in 1949. SS Northern Star: 1961 Scrapped in 1975 S.S. Northern Star: RMS Nova Scotia: 1926 Torpedoed and sank in 1942 R.M.S. Nova Scotia: RMS Oceanic: 1870 Scrapped in 1896 SS Oceanic in 1895 ...
SS Île de France was a French luxury ocean liner that plied the prestigious transatlantic route between Europe and New York from 1927 through to 1958. She was built in Saint-Nazaire for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (or CGT, also known as the "French Line"), and named after the region around Paris known as "L'Ile de France".
She was the first diesel-engined liner to be built for the transatlantic service. [1] The Gripsholm was launched and christened on 26 November 1924, and delivered on 7 November 1925. On the same date her owners officially changed their name to Svenska Amerika Linien / Swedish American Line, and on 21 November the Gripsholm set out on her maiden ...
SS Drottningholm was a steam turbine ocean liner. One of the earliest of her type, she was designed as a transatlantic liner and mail ship for Allan Line, built in Scotland, and launched in 1904 as RMS Virginian. In the First World War Virginian spent a few months as a troopship, then was converted into an armed merchant cruiser (AMC).
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.
The giant ocean liner Queen Mary 2 under construction Russian amphibious assault ship Sevastopol awaiting delivery, December 2014. The current Chantiers de l'Atlantique yard evolved from the Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët, Saint-Nazaire, France, famous for building the transatlantic liners: France, Île de France, and Normandie.
SS Shalom was a combined ocean liner/cruise ship built in 1964 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France, for ZIM Lines, Israel, for transatlantic service from Haifa to New York. In 1967, SS Shalom was sold to the German Atlantic Line , becoming their second SS Hanseatic .
SS Bremen was a German-built ocean liner constructed for the Norddeutscher Lloyd line (NDL) to work the transatlantic sea route. Launched in 1928, Bremen was notable for her high-speed engines and low, streamlined profile.