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SS Europa, later SS Liberté IMO 5607332, was a German ocean liner built for the Norddeutsche Lloyd line (NDL) to work the transatlantic sea route. Launched in 1928, she and her sister ship, Bremen, were the two most advanced, high-speed steam turbine ocean vessels in their day, with both earning the Blue Riband.
SS Josef Pilsudski (1921–1923) SS Franck Hellmers (1923–1924) SS Wilbo (1924) Scrapped in 1924 SS Birma on a 1914 postcard. Arundel Castle and Dunottar Castle in Capetown. Arundel Castle is the ship on the right. H.S. Mitava, circa 1918. SS Arizona: 1879 Hancock (1898–1926) Scrapped in 1926 S.S. Arizona while she held the Atlantic Record ...
Name Built CGT service Type Length Beam GRT Fate Notes Image Abd el-Kader (): 1880: 1880-1922: Ocean liner: 312 ft. 33.6 ft. 1,579 GRT: Scrapped 1922: Administrateur en Chef Thomas
SS Liberté, a French ocean liner known as SS Europa prior to 1950; Liberté-class battleship, a pre-dreadnought class of battleships of the French Navy; French battleship Liberté, the lead battleship of the Liberté class, destroyed by explosion in 1911
The Italian Line's SS Michelangelo and SS Raffaello, [5] launched in 1962 and 1963, were two of the last ocean liners to be built primarily for liner service across the North Atlantic. Cunard's transatlantic liner, Queen Elizabeth 2 , although designed as an ocean liner, was also used as a cruise ship. [ 4 ]
The Spanish–American War, an economic crisis, and changes in customs legislation, as well as an epidemic of cholera in France partially reduced the passenger traffic, while new, increasingly imposing ocean liners were emerging abroad, such as SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and RMS Oceanic. [23]
SS Île de France was a French luxury ocean liner that plied the prestigious transatlantic route between Europe and New York from 1927 through to 1958. She was built in Saint-Nazaire for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (or CGT, also known as the "French Line"), and named after the region around Paris known as "L'Ile de France".
SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, [4] constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962.