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The new ship improved upon the design of Queen Mary [10] with sufficient changes, including a reduction in the number of boilers to twelve instead of Queen Mary 's twenty-four, that the designers could discard one funnel and increase deck, cargo and passenger space. The two funnels were self-supporting and braced internally to give a cleaner ...
Built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland, she was subsequently joined by RMS Queen Elizabeth [5] in Cunard's two-ship weekly express service between Southampton, Cherbourg and New York. These "Queens" were the British response to the express superliners built by German, Italian, and French companies in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
SS Queen of Bermuda was a British turbo-electric ocean liner that belonged to Furness, Withy & Co Ltd. Its Furness Bermuda Line subsidiary operated her between New York and Bermuda before and after the Second World War. During the war she served as first an armed merchant cruiser and then as a troop ship.
The PS General Slocum [note 1] was an American sidewheel passenger steamboat built in Brooklyn, New York, in 1891. During her service history, she was involved in a number of mishaps, including multiple groundings and collisions. On June 15, 1904, General Slocum caught fire and sank in the East River of New York City. [1]
SS Great Western was a wooden-hulled paddle-wheel steamship with four masts, [3] the first steamship purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic, and the initial unit of the Great Western Steamship Company. [4] Completed in 1838, she was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1837 to 1839, the year the SS British Queen went into service.
Ocean Queen was a side-paddled wooden ship built in 1857 by Stephen G. Bogert, of the Westervelt & Co. Shipyard of New York City. The engines were built by the Morgan Iron Works, also in New York City. The original name of the ship was Queen of the Pacific.
New York: Fulton: Paddle steamer: For New York and Havre Steam Navigation Company. 8 September United Kingdom: Pitcher Northfleet: Plover: Albacore-class gunboat: For Royal Navy. [198] 8 September United Kingdom: Pitcher Northfleet: Tickler: Albacore-class gunboat: For Royal Navy. [198] 12 September United Kingdom: Chesapeake: Forte-class ...
She had berths for 691 passengers, could sail between New York and Hamilton in about 40 hours, [9] and was an immediate success. [7] Bermuda, Furness Bermuda Line's first purpose-built ship. The Great Depression that began in 1929 caused a worldwide slump in shipping. Most types of cargo and passenger traffic sharply declined.