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Carpathia of 1903 (13,555 GRT) became famous for rescuing the survivors of the sinking of Titanic Not to be outdone, both White Star and Hamburg–America each ordered a trio of superliners. The White Star Olympic -class liners at 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h) and the Hapag Imperator -class liners at 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h) were larger and more ...
This is a list of ships that were lost on their maiden voyage. Naval ships. Vasa (1628) ... Titanic (1912) City of Honolulu (1922) Georges Philippar (1932)
SS Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service in 1953. She is widely known from the extensive media coverage of her sinking in 1956, which included the remarkably successful rescue of 1,660 of her 1,706 passengers and crew.
Their location in the stern of the ship meant they remained operational until the last few minutes before the ship sank. [41] Titanic lacked a searchlight, in accordance with the ban on the use of searchlights in the merchant navy. [42] [43]
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 ...
The submersible’s Titanic expedition is a reminder that more than a century after the “unsinkable” Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 of the 2,200 people on board ...
1 By location. 2 By date. Toggle By date subsection. 2.1 Before 1914. 2.2 1914 to 1938. 2.3 1939 to 1945. 2.4 After 1945. ... List of ships sunk by the Imperial ...
The Titanic sank in the early hours of April 14, 1912, after months of being declared the "unsinkable ship." The maritime disaster took the lives of approximately 1,500 people who either sank with ...