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Encyclopedia > List of ocean liners

This is a list of ocean liners, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in line 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 from liners to cruise ships, may be listed in both places. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A passenger ship is a ship whose primary function is to carry passengers. ... This is a list of cruise ships, both those in service and those that have since ceased to operate. ...


Note that ships with multiple names may be listed here under each name.


Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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The Willem Ruys The Achille Lauro The Achille Lauro, formerly the Willem Ruys, was a passenger liner. ... Admiral Nakhimov sailing under her original name Berlin III in 1925 The Admiral Nakhimov, originally named Berlin III, was a ship that was shipwrecked on August 31, 1986 with high loss of life. ... Several notable steamships have been named SS Adriatic, after the Adriatic Sea. ... SS Albert Ballin was an ocean liner of the Hamburg-America Line launched in 1923 and named after Albert Ballin, visionary director of the line who had killed himself in despair several years earlier. ... SS Alcantara was an ocean liner that went into service just weeks before the start of World War I, was converted to an armed merchant cruiser in 1915, and was sunk by the German cruiser Greif on 29 February 1916. ... MS Alcantara was an ocean liner of the Royal Mail Lines, a successor to the Alcantara that had been sunk in World War I. Alcantara was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, and launched in 1927. ... MS Marco Polo is an ocean liner originally named Alexandr Pushkin , renamed in 1991 and as of 2004 in service for cruising Antarctica. ... The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. ... The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. ... The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. ... SS Amerika SS Amerika was an ocean liner built by the Belfast, Northern Ireland based Harland & Wolff shipyard for the German Hamburg-Amerika Line in 1905. ... The SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner for the Italian Line (Società di navigazione Italia) home ported in Genoa, Italy. ... Built for the French Line, the Antilles was a near-sister to the SS Flandre of 1952. ... RMS Aquitania was a Cunard Line ocean liner that was built by the John Brown and Company shipyard near Clydebank, Scotland. ... Built by Cammel Laird & Company in 1927, the Arandora was renamed Arandora Star two years later to avoid confusion with ships associated with Royal Mail (Which typically bore names beginning and ending in A). A 15,501T luxury cruise ship operated by Blue Star Line, she was refitted during the... ss Arcadias bell SS Arcadia, was a passenger liner built for P&O in 1954 to service the UK to Australia route. ... The RMS Arlanza was an ocean liner of the Royal Mail Lines in service from 1912 to 1938. ... She was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner on the Europe-South America run until her untimely destruction by fire. ... The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. ...

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The RMS Baltic was the second ship of that name belonging to the White Star Line. ... The Berengaria was originally launched as the SS Imperator by the German HAPAG Line in 1912. ... SS Imperator, later renamed RMS Berengaria, was the first of a trio of successively larger ocean liners that included the Vaterland and the Bismarck built by the German HAPAG Line for the transatlantic passenger service. ... RMS Majestic, originally christened the Bismarck, was launched in 1914 and was, at 56,551 gross tonnes, the largest ship in the world until the construction of the French Lines Normandie in 1935. ... RMS Majestic, originally christened the Bismarck, was launched in 1914 and was, at 56,551 gross tones, the largest ship in the world until the construction of the French Lines Normandie in 1935. ... The profile of the MV Bloemfontein Castle in 1959. ... Image:SS Bremen 1920 profile NYC.png The profile of the Bremen as originally built - the funnels were raised by five meters in 1930. ... Britannic and Germanic 2x4 carte de visite, circa 1870. ... HMHS Britannic (1914), the third Olympic-class ocean liner of the White Star Line, sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic, sank in 1916 after hitting a mine with the loss of 30 lives. ... There were three ships that bore the name Britannic. ...

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SS CAMERONIA built by D & W Henderson Ltd Glasgow, Yard No 472 Propulsion: steam - twin screw - triple expansion 15,600 BHP - capable of around 19 knots Launched: Saturday, 27 May 1911 Built: 1911 Ship Type: Passenger Cargo Vessel Ships Role: Transatlantic service from Glasgow Tonnage: 10963 grt Length: 515... The RMS Campania was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Line Shipping Company, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Govan, Scotland, and launched on Thursday, September 8, 1891. ... Canberras official stamp SS Canberra was a liner and cruise ship in the P&O fleet from 1961 to 1997. ... Memorial of Cap Arcona victims, Neustadt in Holstein. ... The SS Cap Trafalgar was a 18,710 -gross ton German luxury ocean liner of the Hamburg-South America line. ... The RMS Carmania (I) was a British passenger liner of the Cunard Line, which in World War I was converted to an armed merchant cruiser. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... The RMS Caronia was a 34,183 gross-ton passenger ship of the Cunard Line. ... RMS Carpathia The RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. ... RMS Cedric was an ocean liner belonging to the White Star Line. ... RMS Celtic was an ocean liner belonging to the White Star Line. ... SS Ceramic was an 18,400-ton ocean liner of the White Star Line launched in 1913, and later sold to Shaw, Savill and Albion. ... The SS Champlain was a cabin class ocean liner built in 1932 for the French Line by Chantiers et Ateliers de Saint-Nazaire, Penhoët. ... SS City of New York, also known as SS New York, was an ocean liner originally operated by Inman Line and later operated by American Line (as SS New York) and US Navy (as USS Harvard and USS Plattsburg). ... The SS Cleveland was a steam-powered ship that ran in the early 1900s. ... Laid down before the start of World War One, she was originally to be named Hindenberg. ... The SS Constitution was an ocean liner. ... SS Conte Verde (Italian for Green) was a Lloyd Sabaudo Line ocean liner active in the early 20th century. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Cristoforo Colombo was an Italian ocean liner built in the 1950s in the wake of World War II. She is notable to most people as the sister ship of the famed and tragic Andrea Doria. ...

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The first Deutschland was a passenger liner by the Hamburg-Amerika line of Germany. ... The SS Deutschland of 1923, sometimes seen as Deutschland IV to distinguish from others of the name, was a HAPAG ocean liner sunk in a British air attack in 1945, with great loss of life. ... SS Duchess of York was a 20,000 ton ocean liner operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. ...

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There have been three ships named Empress of Britain. ... The name Apollon could refer to: The ancient Greek god Apollo A defunt Formula One constructor; see Apollon (Formula One) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... RMS Empress of Australia was a passenger liner that was ceded to Great Britain under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, and later sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway company. ... SS. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria was a German luxury liner built in 1905 by Vulcan at Stettin. ... The SS Europa was one of a pair of fast ocean liners built in the late twenties for the North German Lloyd line (NDL) for the transatlantic passenger service. ...

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The Sky Wonder (formerly Pacific Sky and Sky Princess) first entered service in 1984, and as of May 2006 operates in the Pullmantur Cruises fleet. ... SS Oxfordshire before conversion into Fairstar TSS Fairstar The TSS Fairstar (known while a cruise ship as Fairstar, the Fun Ship) was a popular cruise ship that operated out of Sydney, Australia during a career that spanned almost 25 years. ... The SS France, from a 1912 postcard. ... The SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de lAtlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1961. ...

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Galileo Galilei (from a promotional postcard) MS Meridian underway SS Galileo Galilei (also known as Galileo, MS Meridian, and Sun Vista) is an ocean liner and later cruise ship constructed in 1961. ... Built at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast, the RMS Georgic was the last ship built for the White Star Line before its merger with the Cunard Line. ... The SS Great Easterns launch ramp at Millwall. ... The Great Western in New York Harbor. ... Two Swedish passenger vessels were named MS Gripsholm. ... Two Swedish passenger vessels were named MS Gripsholm. ...

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SS Himalaya was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Armstrong and launched 5th October 1948. ... It took Britains Cunard Line less than a year following World War I to re-establish their Atlantic supremacy with a three ship weekly service to New York. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

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The SS ÃŽle de France was the first major ocean liner built after the conclusion of World War I and was the first liner ever decorated with the Art Deco designs. ... SS Imperator, later renamed RMS Berengaria, was the first of a trio of successively larger ocean liners that included the Vaterland and the Bismarck built by the German HAPAG Line for the transatlantic passenger service. ... SS Independence, now registered as SS Oceanic, is an ocean liner built in 1950 for the American Export Lines. ... The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. ...

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The SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, was a 19,361 gross ton passenger steamer built at Stettin, Germany, completed in the spring of 1903. ... SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse was an ocean liner of Norddeutscher Lloyd, notable as the first passenger ship sunk in World War I. She was built by Vulkan of Stettin. ... SS. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria was a German luxury liner built in 1905 by Vulcan at Stettin. ... S/S Kościuszko was a Polish passenger ship, named after Tadeusz Kościuszko. ... The German passenger liner Kronprinz Wilhelm was built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company of the Hapag-Lloyd by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany, in 1901. ... Sea Princess at Messina, Sicily Mona Lisa, (formerly Kungsholm, Sea Princess and Victoria) is a former Ocean Liner now operating for Holiday Kreuzfahrten as a cruise ship // History The Kungsholm first entered service for the Swedish America Line in 1966 as a trans- atlantic liner, the last liner built for...

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She was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner on the Europe-South America run until her untimely destruction by fire. ... The first RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, launched on July 27, 1911, delivered to the Cunard Line on December 12, 1911, and began service on January 20, 1912. ... The second RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson as a successor to the Laconia of 1911 to 1917. ... The RMS Lancastria was a Cunard liner sunk on June 17, 1940 during World War II with the loss of, possibly, 4,000 lives. ... RMS Laurentic (1909) was a British ocean liner of the White Star Line. ... The SS Leviathan was a United States Lines ocean liner active in the 1920s and 1930s, was one the worlds largest ships for nearly 20 years. ... RMS Lusitania was a British luxury ocean liner owned by the Cunard Steamship Company and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. ...

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RMS Majestic, originally christened the Bismarck, was launched in 1914 and was, at 56,551 gross tones, the largest ship in the world until the construction of the French Lines Normandie in 1935. ... SS Manhattan was a 24,189-ton luxury liner of the United States Lines, named after a borough of New York City. ... MS Marco Polo is an ocean liner originally named Alexandr Pushkin , renamed in 1991 and as of 2004 in service for cruising Antarctica. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... RMS Mauretania (also known as Maury), sister ship of the Lusitania, was an ocean liner built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, and was launched on September 20, 1906. ... For other ships of the same name, see RMS Mauretania. ... The SS Meganitc was an ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, and operated by the White Star Line. ... Galileo Galilei (from a promotional postcard) MS Meridian underway SS Galileo Galilei (also known as Galileo, MS Meridian, and Sun Vista) is an ocean liner and later cruise ship constructed in 1961. ... THE SS MINNEWASKA BUILT IN 1923 SS Minnewaska was laid down at the Harland & Wolff Ltd, shipyard, Belfast, Northern Irland in 1923. ...

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SS Naronic was lost at sea after leaving Liverpool, UK in February 1893. ... The Nitta Maru (新田丸) was a trans-pacific passenger liner built for the N.Y.K. Line sold to the Imperial Japanese Navy. ... The SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines. ... Several ships have sailed under the name Noordam for Holland America Line. ... The Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire France for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. ... The SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT, or French Line) ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de lAtlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1961. ...

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The RMS Oceanic(I) was the White Star Lines first liner and an important turning point in passenger liner design. ... The RMS Oceanic was a luxury ocean liner similar to the Aquitania, the Lusitania, the Britannic, the Mauritania, and the Titanic, but was considered to be in a class of its own. ... In the 1920s, the White Star Line hired the shipbuilders Harland and Wolff to build the first 1000-foot-long ocean liner, with the planned name of Oceanic. ... The third liner of the 20th century to bear the name Oceanic was built by the Italian and Swiss-owned Home Lines. ... RMS Olympic was the first of her class of ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included the ill-fated liners Titanic and Britannic. ... Angelina Lauro, formerly known as , was a passenger liner and later cruise ship that was lost when it sank in Taiwan, on September 24, 1979. ... Orduna was an ocean liner built in 1913-14 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Cunard Line. ... SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company (Orient Lines) ocean liners. ... HMS Otranto was a First World War Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser. ...

P

The Paris was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire France for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. ... The SS President Coolidge was a luxury ocean liner that messured 654ft in length and was originally built, along with her sister ship the SS President Hoover, for Dollar Steamship Lines. ... The SS President Roosevelt was a passenger liner of the United States Lines that was involved in a famous heroic rescue of the crew of the French ship Antinoe in the Atlantic Ocean in January 1926. ... HMS Pretoria Castle was an armed merchant cruiser and escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War II. She had previously been the ocean liner Pretoria Castle of the Union-Castle Line; built at Harland & Wolff shipyards in Belfast, Northern Ireland and launched in 1938. ...

Q

RMS Queen Elizabeth was a steam-powered ocean liner of the Cunard Steamship Company. ... RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) is a Cunard Line ocean liner named after the earlier Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth. ... Queen Mary 1936 RMS Queen Mary is an ocean liner that sailed the North Atlantic Ocean from 1936 to 1967 for Cunard Line (then Cunard White Star Line). ... The RMS Queen Mary 2 (QM2) is a Cunard Line ocean liner named after the earlier Cunard liner Queen Mary, which was in turn named after Mary of Teck, the Queen Consort of George V. At the time of her construction in 2003, the QM2 was the longest, widest and...

R

The SS Rajputana was a British passenger and cargo carring ocean liner. ... The SS Ranchi was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner. ... RMS Republic was a steam-powered ocean liner built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and was lost at sea in a collision six years later while sailing for the White Star Line. ... The SS Rex was a product of Navigazione Generale Italiana (later become Italian Line - Italia Società di Navigazione). ... MV Doulos (at Southampton, England in 2004) The MV Doulos is the worlds oldest active ocean going passenger ship. ... The Rotterdam V, also known as The Grande Dame, is one of the most famous post-War liners and amongst the most successful passenger vessels of all time. ...

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