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In the 1970s, Crowley began transporting cargo between the U.S. and Puerto Rico and later expanded into the rest of the Caribbean, Central America and South America. The service primarily consisted of ships and large, triple-deck barges, some of which were 730 feet in length, carrying cargo in trailers and containers.
Crowley began modernizing the fleet on the route but sold the shipping line to United States Lines in 1985. United States Lines incorporated some of the ships into its routes but went bankrupt in 1986. At its peak in 1949, the Mississippi-Delta Line owned 14 ships with a total of 98,000 gross register tons.
In late 1998, bids were solicited to tow the ship to Texas. In mid-January 1999 the Navy issued a contract to Crowley Marine Services for the job. [30] Crowley gave consideration to towing the ship through the Panama Canal. The 195-foot (59m) extreme width of her flight deck made her too broad for the 110-foot (34m) wide locks, so the cost and ...
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 If a given ship was superseded by another, scrapped, or lost at sea, it is then succeeded.
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Maritime history is the broad overarching subject that includes fishing, whaling, international maritime law, naval history, the history of ships, ship design, shipbuilding, the history of navigation, the history of the various maritime-related sciences (oceanography, cartography, hydrography, etc.), sea exploration, maritime economics and ...
Star Flyer, a 112 m (367 ft) sail cruise ship launched in 1991, in the Pacific. This is a list of large sailing vessels, past and present, including sailing mega yachts, tall ships, sailing cruise ships, and large sailing military ships. It is sorted by overall length.
Battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval battle in World War II and the largest naval battle in history in terms of ship displacement, area, and the number of (confirmed) personnel involved; 1951: The first purpose-built container ships enter operation. 1955: USS Nautilus (SSN-571), the world's first nuclear-powered vessel, is launched.