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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SS Imperator (known as RMS Berengaria for most of her career) was a German ocean liner built for the Hamburg America Line, launched in 1912. At the time...
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RMS Majestic (1914) (category Imperator-class ocean liners)
pre-war 48,000-ton Olympic-class ocean liner Britannic which was lost after hitting a mine in the Aegean in 1916, while the Imperator went to Cunard and became...
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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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SS Vaterland (1913) (category Imperator-class ocean liners)
turbine passenger liner, was built by Blohm & Voss at Hamburg, Germany, as the second of a trio of very large ships of the Imperator class for the Hamburg...
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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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SS Vaterland (1940) (category Ocean liners)
large Imperator-class ocean liners Imperator, Vaterland and the uncompleted Bismarck. In the 1920s HAPAG re-established a fleet of transatlantic liners of...
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RMS Olympic (category Olympic-class ocean liners)
RMS Olympic was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of Olympic-class liners. Olympic had a career spanning 24 years...
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Thus he conceived the three largest liners yet to be built, named Imperator, Vaterland and Bismarck. The Imperator and the Vaterland were briefly in service...
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RMS Aquitania (category Four funnel liners)
RMS Aquitania was an ocean liner of the Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company...
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Cunard Line (redirect from Cunard Liner)
superliners. The White Star Olympic-class liners at 21.5 knots (39.8 km/h) and the Hapag Imperator-class liners at 22.5 knots (41.7 km/h) were larger...
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SS Great Eastern (redirect from The Great Eastern (Ocean Liner))
000-passenger capacity was surpassed in 1913 by the 4,234-passenger SS Imperator. The ship having five funnels (which were later reduced to four) was unusual...
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(1914–1919) packet ship converted to seaplane tender in 1914 HMS Campania ocean liner converted to seaplane tender in 1915 HMS Anne freighter used as seaplane...
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finest and most luxurious first-class accommodations to be found on any contemporary ocean liner. The cheapest first class fare was in a standard cabin and...
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HMHS Britannic (category Olympic-class ocean liners)
of individual bathrooms in almost every First Class cabin, which would have been a first on an ocean liner. Aboard the Olympic and Titanic, most passengers...
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SS Paris (1916) (category Ocean liners)
she was the largest liner under the French flag, at 34,569 tons. Although not so large as the Olympic-class or the Imperator-class and not intended to...
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RMS Homeric (1913) (category Ocean liners)
RMS Homeric, originally launched as Columbus, was an ocean liner built for Norddeutscher Lloyd and launched in 1913 at the F. Schichau yard in Danzig...
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SS Île de France (category Ocean liners)
SS Île de France was a French luxury ocean liner that plied the prestigious transatlantic route between Europe and New York from 1927 through to 1958...
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J. Kent Layton (2009). "Imperator". AtlanticLiners.com. Retrieved 20 June 2020. "Vaterland/Leviathan". The Great Ocean Liners. Archived from the original...
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Blue Riband (category Atlantic Ocean)
(/ˈrɪbənd/) is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest average speed....
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London Library (1932–34). Ocean liner SS Amerika (1905–1906), interiors: first Ritz restaurant at sea. Ocean liner SS Imperator (1913), interiors: remarkable...
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ocean liner RMS Carpathia, when it rescued the survivors from the RMS Titanic after the ship sank in 1912 in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean....
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on board the SS Imperator, one of the largest ocean liners of the Hamburg-Amerika Line. The culinary experience on board the Imperator was overseen by...
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Nicholas; Crawford, Kent (March 2007). "The Spanish Dreadnoughts of the España class". Warship International. 44 (1). Toledo: International Naval Research Organization:...
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USS Patricia (category Ocean liners)
England in 1921. Patricia was the last to be built of HAPAG's four P-class ocean liners, all of which were completed in the second half of the 1890s. Harland...
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across the Atlantic Ocean was founded in Hamburg. In 1912, Hapag built the first of their "Big Three" ocean liners; the Imperator, followed by its twin...
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In 1913, the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) brought its showpiece liner SS Imperator into service. But in 1919 it became part of the White Star Line as...
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countless incidents reported on marine disasters. The sinking of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic in 1912, with more than 1,500 fatalities, is probably the...
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Kaiser-class ocean liner Kronprinzessin Cecilie 1907, Königsberg-class light cruiser SMS Stettin for Kaiserliche Marine 1906–1907, Niki-class destroyers...
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& Crawford, Kent (March 2007). "The Spanish Dreadnoughts of the España class". Warship International. 44 (1). Toledo, Ohio: International Naval Research...
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