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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. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted ...
An ocean liner is a type of passenger ship primarily used for transportation across seas or oceans. Ocean liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes (such as for pleasure cruises or as hospital ships). [1] The Queen Mary 2 is the only ocean liner still in service to this day, serving with Cunard Line.
Ocean liners are included on this list only if they also functioned as cruise ships. (See: list of ocean liners.) As some cruise ships have operated under multiple names, all names will be listed in the Status section, along with the history of the vessel, under the vessel's current or most recent name. If a vessel is not currently operating as ...
P&O (DP World, UAE) P&O Ferries; Sally Line UK (Rederi Ab Sally, Finland) Seatruck Ferries (Clipper Group, Bahamas) Swan Hellenic; Thomson Cruises; Defunct. Anchor Line; Alfred Holt and Company, "Blue Funnel Line" Blue Star Line; Bristol City Line; British India Steam Navigation Company, "British India Line" British Railways ships; Clan Line ...
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 If a given ship was superseded by another, scrapped, or lost at sea, it is then succeeded.
RMS Mauretania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson on the River Tyne, England for the Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of RMS Olympic in 1910.
The Titanic will forever be remembered as the ship that brought tragedy upon over 1,000 people when it crashed into an iceberg and then sunk in the early hours of 15 April 1912.. But it is easy to ...
Films set on ocean liners (1 C, 25 P) Four funnel liners (1 C, 18 P) G. Ships of the Gdynia-America Line (13 P) N. Ships of the NYK Line (31 P) O. Ships of the Orient ...