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...
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The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th...
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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...
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Passenger ship (redirect from Passenger liner)
passengers as well as freight. Indeed, until recently virtually all ocean liners were able to transport mail, package freight and express, and other cargo...
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The Oceanic class were a group of six ocean liners built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, for the White Star Line, for the transatlantic service. They...
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SS United States (redirect from United States (ocean liner))
United States is a retired ocean liner built between 1950 and 1951 for United States Lines. She is the largest ocean liner constructed entirely in the...
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The Imperator-class was a series of three large ocean liners designed and built for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG). Envisaged by HAPAG chairman, Albert...
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Cruise ship (redirect from Cruise liner)
ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip...
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SS Andrea Doria (redirect from Andrea Doria (ocean liner))
Andrea Doria (pronounced [anˈdrɛːa ˈdɔːrja]) was a luxury transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia), put into service...
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The Streamlined Ocean Liner was a design by Norman Bel Geddes for a streamlined steam-powered ocean liner. The shape was compared by Pathé to that of...
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Streamline Moderne (redirect from Ocean liner style)
was called the style paquebot, or "ocean liner style", and was influenced by the design of the luxury ocean liner SS Normandie, launched in 1932. As the...
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Queen Mary 2 (redirect from Queen Mary II ocean liner)
RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) is a British transatlantic ocean liner. She has served as the flagship of Cunard Line since succeeding Queen Elizabeth 2 in 2004...
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Newport News Shipbuilding (section Ocean liners)
reconditioning and refurbishment of the ocean liner SS Leviathan. Before the war she had been the German liner Vaterland, but the start of hostilities...
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The Kaiser-class ocean liners or Kaiserklasse refer to four transatlantic ocean liners of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a German shipping company. Built by...
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SS Great Eastern (redirect from The Great Eastern (Ocean Liner))
gif224kB.png Dawson, Philip S. (2005). The Liner. Chrysalis Books. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-85177-938-6. "Ocean Record Breaking". New York Times. 7 July 1895...
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four-funnel liner, also known as a four-stacker, is an ocean liner with four funnels. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, launched in 1897, was the first ocean liner to...
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Steamship (section Era of the ocean liner)
Kingdom Brunel in 1838, which inaugurated the era of the trans-Atlantic ocean liner. SS Archimedes, built in Britain in 1839 by Francis Pettit Smith, was...
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White Star Line (redirect from White Star liner)
Star is remembered for its innovative vessel Oceanic and for the losses of some of its best passenger liners, including the wrecking of Atlantic in 1873...
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Titanic (category Olympic-class ocean liners)
RMS Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank on 15 April 1912 as a result of striking an iceberg on her maiden voyage from Southampton, England to...
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The Athenic-class ocean liners were a trio of ocean liners built by Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line in the early 20th century, designed...
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Utopia (cruise ship) (redirect from Utopia ocean liner)
Utopia is a planned luxury residential ocean liner project. A formal marketing launch of the ship, reportedly costing US$1.1 billion, was expected in...
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30′W / 60.11750°N 1.97167°W / 60.11750; -1.97167 RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden...
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crews to naval stations. In September 1911, Hawke collided with the ocean liner RMS Olympic; the damage smashed the Hawke's bow. During World War I,...
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Cunard Line (redirect from Cunard Liner)
for the ocean liner industry. In 1960 a government-appointed committee recommended the construction of project Q3, a conventional 75,000 GRT liner to replace...
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Oceanic was the planned name of an unfinished ocean liner that was partially built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line. It would have been the...
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Queen Elizabeth 2 (redirect from Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner)
Carnival UK. Project Genesis was intended to create new life in the ocean liner saga, and in 1998, Cunard revealed the name: RMS Queen Mary 2. Queen...
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The Jubilee class were a group of five passenger and cargo ocean liners built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast, for the White Star Line, specifically for...
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RMS Queen Mary (category Ocean liners)
RMS Queen Mary is a retired British ocean liner that sailed primarily on the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for the Cunard Line. Built by John...
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SS Canberra (section Ocean liner)
SS Canberra was an ocean liner, which later operated on cruises, in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. She was built at the Harland and Wolff shipyard in...
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SS Oceanic was the White Star Line's first liner and first member of the Oceanic-class; she was an important turning point in passenger liner design. Entering...
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