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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.
SS Nieuw Amsterdam was a Dutch transatlantic ocean liner that was built in 1938 and scrapped in 1974. She was the second Holland America Line (Nederlandsch-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij, or NASM) ship to be named after the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam , now New York .
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.
Passengers on the transatlantic route numbered 172,000 in 1928, and the number dropped to 157,930 the following year. [146] The liners, including the bigger ones like the Majestic and the Olympic, were used for cruises during this period in order to bring in more income. [148] A new liner, the Britannic entered service in 1930. It adapted ...
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 first packet of the Black Ball liner to depart on time, 5 January 1818; [10] left the packet service in 1823 to the Cuban trade; ran aground in 1850 off the Tasmanian coast 1819: Albion: New York: wrecked off the coast of Ireland, near Kinsale, April 25, 1822, with a loss of forty-six lives Liverpool: wrecked on her maiden voyage [10] 1822 ...
First, she did four transatlantic trips taking troops from Canada to England. Then she was sent to Wellington, New Zealand, returning to Scotland in June 1940 as part of the "million dollar convoy" of seven luxury liners — Andes , Aquitania , Empress of Britain , Empress of Canada , Empress of Japan , Mauretania and Queen Mary .