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This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships.
Discover the last great ocean liners on the North Atlantic, to Africa and Latin America and on Australia, Far East and Around-the-World services. Search the sailing schedules from January to December of 1966 which can be filtered by ship, line, month, route and port.
These great ocean liners not only represented the pinnacle of luxury and technology at the time, but they also have a tremendous historical significance as icons of the golden age of ocean travel. Famous Ocean Liners 1. RMS Titanic
An Ocean Liner is designed, engineered, and built specifically for the purpose of crossing the ocean on a set schedule – similar to how you would make a scheduled train or a bus journey. Ocean Liners might boast similar amenities to cruise ships, but the build is quite different.
The Olympic-class ocean liners, first completed in 1911, were the first to have a tonnage that exceeded 45,000 and the Imperator-class ocean liners first completed in 1913 became the 1st liners with tonnage exceeding 50,000.
Ocean liners are large, powerful, ocean-going ships (hence the name…OCEAN liner), designed to transport vast numbers of passengers in comfort, over long distances. They are designed to be faster, larger, stronger and more luxurious.
Compare 144 great ocean liners in service in 1966 by year built, size in gross tons, length in feet (meters), beam-width in feet (meters), draft-depth in feet (meters), speed in knots, engine horsepower and passenger capacity.