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Wrecked near Beirut, 22 December 1952, scrapped on sight. SS Cheribon: 1882 Wrecked on April 11, 1902, at Remedios Point, Panama MS Chrobry: 1939 Scuttled in 1940 by British torpedo after being damaged by German aircraft SS Chusan: 1949 Scrapped at Kaohsiung, Taiwan in 1973, work completed in 1974. SS City of Adelaide: 1863 Ran aground in 1916
The final leg of the first transatlantic crossing was about a 20-hour flight from the Azores to Craw Field in Port Lyautey , French Morocco. [19] [20] Beginning in the 1950s, the predominance of ocean liners began to wane when larger, jet-powered airplanes began carrying passengers across the ocean in less and less time. The speed of crossing ...
As of 2025, RMS Queen Mary 2 is the only ocean liner still in service. An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. . Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ship
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 Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage on 6 September 1899 and was the largest ship in the world until 1901. [1] At the outbreak of World War I she was converted into an armed merchant cruiser. On 8 August 1914 she was commissioned into Royal Navy service.
SS Bremen was a German-built ocean liner constructed for the German shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) to work the transatlantic sea route. Launched in 1928, Bremen was notable for her high-speed engines and low, streamlined profile.
SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, [4] constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962.
She entered service in March 1940 as a troopship in the Second World War, and did not make her first commercial voyage as an ocean liner until October 1946. With the decline in popularity of the transatlantic route, both ships were replaced by the smaller, more economical Queen Elizabeth 2, which made her maiden voyage in 1969.