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S.S. Duilio at sea. MV Durban Castle: 1938 Scrapped at Hamburg in 1962 SS Edinburgh Castle: 1910 Served in both wars sunk as a target near Sierra Leone on September 25, 1945 The Edinburgh Castle at port. RMS Edinburgh Castle: 1947 Scrapped 1976 The Edinburgh Castle at sea. SS Elbe: 1881 Collided with SS Crathie, and sank in the North Sea on ...
The fifth SS Rotterdam, also known as "The Grande Dame", is a former ocean liner and cruise ship, and has been a hotel ship in Rotterdam, Netherlands, since 2010.She was launched by Queen Juliana of the Netherlands in a gala ceremony on 13 September 1958, and was completed the following summer.
SS Minnewaska was a 21,716-ton ocean liner in the service of the Atlantic Transport Line and the Red Star Line from 1923–1933 . She was the fourth ship of the Atlantic Transport Line to carry the name "Minnewaska".
This is a list of the oldest ships in the world which have survived to this day with exceptions to certain categories. The ships on the main list, which include warships, yachts, tall ships, and vessels recovered during archaeological excavations, all date to between 500 AD and 1918; earlier ships are covered in the list of surviving ancient ships.
When being demolished, her original White Star Line gold stripe could still be seen along her hull. Only Cunard's SS Parthia (1870) served a longer time afloat than Germanic, ending her days as a lumber tug in 1956. Parthia ' s record (84 years) as longest serving "floating palace", in any capacity, still holds today. [21]
SS Malolo (later known as Matsonia, Atlantic, and Queen Frederica) was a passenger liner, later cruise ship, built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, in 1926 for the Matson Line. The largest and most luxurious American passenger ship of her era, [ 3 ] she was the first of a number of ships designed by William Francis Gibbs for the Matson ...
SS Merion was an ocean liner built in 1902 for the American Line, a subsidiary line of the International Mercantile Marine (IMM). She also sailed for the Red Star Line and the Dominion Line—both subsidiary lines of IMM—during her passenger career.
RMS Majestic was a British ocean liner working on the White Star Line’s North Atlantic run, originally launched in 1914 as the Hamburg America Liner SS Bismarck.At 56,551 gross register tons, she was the largest ship ever operated by the White Star Line under its own flag and the largest ship in the world until completion of SS Normandie in 1935.