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Taken out of service in 1930, fate unknown MV Awa Maru: 1942 Torpedoed and sunk on May 1, 1945 HMT Awatea: 1936 Bombed and Sunk by German Aircraft, November 11, 1942 SS Baltic: 1850 Scrapped in 1880 RMS Baltic: 1903 Scrapped in 1933 – Japan MS Batory: 1935 Scrapped in 1971 SS Belgravia: 1881 Ran aground and wrecked May 22, 1896 SS Bothnia: 1874
The giant and slow Econships left United States Lines overcapacity, deeply in debt, and unable to compete with faster ships that were once again economically viable. Straining under the debt accumulated by the fleet expansion, the company filed for bankruptcy on 24 November 1986 in one of the largest bankruptcies in US history at the time. [ 14 ]
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".
MV Britannic was a British transatlantic ocean liner that was launched in 1929 and scrapped in 1961. She was the penultimate ship built for White Star Line before its 1934 merger with Cunard Line . When built, Britannic was the largest motor ship in the UK Merchant Navy .
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 .
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.
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Kungsholm operated on the transatlantic service with some cruise operations just prior to World War II.. In June 1938, as flagship of the Swedish American Line, she visited Wilmington, Delaware with the Crown Prince Gustaf VI Adolf and Crown Princess Louise of Sweden, members of the Royal Swedish Commission, the Commission of the Republic of Finland and tourists aboard. [5]