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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 ...
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.
Cunard's transatlantic liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, was also used as a cruise ship. [4] By the early 1960s, 95% of passenger traffic across the Atlantic was by aircraft. Thus the reign of the ocean liners came to an end. [73] By the early 1970s, many passenger ships continued their service in cruising.
SS Southern Cross was an ocean liner built in 1955 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the United Kingdom-based Shaw, Savill & Albion Line for Europe—Australia service. In 1975 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and subsequently sailed under the names Calypso , Azure Seas and OceanBreeze until 2003 when she was sold for scrap to ...
In 1932, United States Lines had offered to build a new passenger liner, called U.S. Express Liner, which would also double as a mail ship, and would dramatically decrease the time of delivery for trans-Atlantic mail by catapulting an aircraft when it was within range. Congress refused to give a guarantee on trans-Atlantic postal rates and it ...
The Kaiser-class ocean liners or Kaiserklasse refer to four transatlantic ocean liners of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a German shipping company. Built by the AG Vulcan Stettin between 1897 and 1907, these ships were designed to be among the largest and best appointed liners of their day.
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 ...
SS Veendam was a Dutch-owned transatlantic liner, launched in Scotland in 1922 and scrapped in the United States in 1953. She was part of the first generation of turbine-powered steamships in the Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) fleet.