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This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage. This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time. If a given ship was superseded by another, scrapped, or lost at sea, it is then succeeded.
Ship Image Entered Service In service Status Notes United States: 1952 1952–1969 Laid up in Philadelphia, PA Built as the fastest transatlantic liner. Aurora: 1955 1955-1972 Under restoration for future museum ship in Stockton, CA [2] Converted in 1960 to a Greek cruise ship as the Delos: Nordstjernen: 1956 1956–present Sailing for Svalbard ...
List of existing 20th century cruise ships and liners This page was last edited on 28 February 2021, at 15:11 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
M.S. Aramis, circa 1932 Teiyō Maru as a repatriation ship, circa 1943: SS Argentina (1929) 1929 SS Pennsylvania (1929–1938) Scrapped in 1964 One of the 3 sister ships of Argentina, it's unknown which one it is as the name was omitted from the bow. SS Arundel Castle: 1894 SS Birma (1905–1913) SS Mitava (1913–1921) SS Josef Pilsudski (1921 ...
Soviet cargo ship "Tixi" sunk with all of its crew during a storm in the Devils' Sea on March 22 en route from Australia to Japan. 45 1902 New Zealand: Elingamite – The ship, carrying a large consignment of gold, was wrecked off the north coast of New Zealand killing 45 people. The wreck is now favoured by adventurous divers for the drama ...
In the late 20th century, ships based on the 19th century designs of historical ships began to be built. These are used today as training ships and to promote tourism rather than for cargo or trade. The following entries are organized by their year of launch and alphabetically within each year.
The primary yards that were building passenger ships in the 20th century include: Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Ltd., Newport News, Virginia [5] Ingalls Shipyards, Pascagoula, Mississippi [6] Fore River Shipyard, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts [7] William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [8]
This is a list of ships of the line of the Royal Navy of England, and later (from 1707) of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.The list starts from 1660, the year in which the Royal Navy came into being after the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, up until the emergence of the battleship around 1880, as defined by the Admiralty.