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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.
Converted to passenger ship by Matson Line in 1955. SS Atlantic: 1953/1958 American Export Lines: Sun Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., in Chester, Pennsylvania Scrapped 1996 Built as “Break Bulk Cargo Ship” for the “US Maritime Commission” in 1953 as the Badger Mariner. Converted to passenger ship by American Export Line in 1958. SS Santa ...
Pages in category "Passenger ships" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
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 ...
In order to provide passengers, especially the wealthy elite, with spectacular views, over 2,000 porthole windows were constructed in the hull of the ship. United Archives - Getty Images Drawing Room
Passenger ships of the United States include passenger-carrying ships designed, built, or operated in or by the United States Subcategories. This category has the ...
As with cargo ships, cruise vessels are designed with all the heavy machinery at the bottom of the hull and lightweight materials where feasible at the top, making them inherently stable even as passenger ships are getting ever taller, [13] and most supplement design with stabilizer fins to further reduce rolling in heavy weather. [14]
The ship was carrying 2,164 passengers and 910 crew members, the CDC added. Alamy The 'Serenade of the Seas,' which is also operated operated by Royal Caribbean International cruise line.