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Cruise ships of Australia (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Passenger ships of Australia" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
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 ...
The passengers comprised convicts, military personnel and notable people sent to fill high positions in the colony. More important for the fledgling colony was that the ships also carried provisions. The first ship to arrive in Sydney was the Mary Ann with its cargo of female convicts and provisions on 9 July 1791.
In 1947, the ship was mothballed for six years at Union Iron Works in Alameda, California. Her engines were overhauled by Todd San Francisco Division. Home Lines bought her and renamed her SS Homeric, sailing her to Trieste for reconstruction to allow 1243 passengers: 147 first class and 1,096 tourist class. Her gross register tonnage increased ...
The Southern Cross was the first passenger ship of over 20,000 gross register tons to be built that had the engine room (and as a result of that, the funnel) located near the stern, rather than amidships. [1] She started a trend of aft-engined ships, and today most passenger ships are built this way.
The ship remained above water for about 2 hours after the collision before sinking around 3 a.m. [5] At the time of sinking, she was carrying 516 people, consisting of 337 passengers and 179 crew. [6] A majority of passengers were from Singapore, with smaller numbers from Britain, Australia, India, United States, Indonesia, Germany, Taiwan, and ...