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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 liners of the CGT have been the subjects of many items for collectors, such as this waterline model of SS Normandie In its 120 years of existence, the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique has acquired a special place within the French shipping industry, and a particular prestige with foreign customers, especially Americans.
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
Along with the Queen Mary, she provided a weekly transatlantic service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States, via Cherbourg in France. Built by John Brown and Company at Clydebank , Scotland , as Hull 552 , [ 5 ] she was launched on 27 September 1938 and named in honour of Queen Elizabeth , the wife of ...
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 ...
She was considered the last of the transatlantic ocean liners until "Project Genesis" was announced by Cunard Line in 1995 after the business purchase of Cunard by Micky Arison; chairman of Carnival and Carnival UK. Project Genesis was intended to create new life in the ocean liner saga, and in 1998, Cunard revealed the name: RMS Queen Mary 2.
Ship owner and ship operator Compañía Transatlántica Española, S.A. ( Transatlantic Company of Spain , abbreviated CTE ), also known as the Spanish Line in English, was a passenger ocean line that has largely ceased operations although it still exists as a company.
MS St. Louis was a diesel-powered ocean liner built by the Bremer Vulkan shipyards in Bremen for Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). She was named after the city of St. Louis , Missouri. She was the sister ship of Milwaukee .