List of ocean liners
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This is a list of ocean liner
s past and present, which are passenger ship
s 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.
Note that ships with multiple names may be listed under each name.
Ocean liner
An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule. Liners may also carry cargo or mail, and may sometimes be used for other purposes .Cargo vessels running to a schedule are sometimes referred to as...
s past and present, which are passenger ship
Passenger ship
A passenger ship is a ship whose primary function is to carry passengers. The category does not include cargo vessels which have accommodations for limited numbers of passengers, such as the ubiquitous twelve-passenger freighters once common on the seas in which the transport of passengers is...
s 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.
Note that ships with multiple names may be listed under each name.
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- SS AbyssiniaSS AbyssiniaThe Abyssinia was a British mail liner originally operated by the Cunard Line on the Liverpool–New York route. She later served the Guion Line on the same route and the Canadian Pacific Line in the Pacific...
- SS Abraham Lincoln
- MS AcapulcoMS AcapulcoThe SS Mongolia was a steam turbine-driven twin-screw passenger-and-cargo ocean liner launched in 1922 for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company for service from the United Kingdom to Australia...
- MS Achille LauroAchille LauroMS Achille Lauro was a cruise ship based in Naples, Italy. Built between 1939 and 1947 as MS Willem Ruys, a passenger liner for the Rotterdamsche Lloyd. It is most remembered for its 1985 hijacking...
- MS Admiral NakhimovAdmiral Nakhimov (ship)The SS Admiral Nakhimov , launched in March 1925 and originally named SS Berlin III, was a passenger liner of the German Weimar Republic later converted to a hospital ship, then a Soviet passenger ship...
- SS AdriaticSS AdriaticSS Adriatic may refer to one of several notable steamships named after the Adriatic Sea:, operated by the Black Ball Line in the mid-19th century, and was among the first ships to be depicted on a postage stamp when used on a 12c value of the United States in 1869, operated by the White Star Line...
- MS AgamemnonMS AgamemnonMS Agamemnon was an ocean liner built in Glasgow in 1947. Sank off the coast of Somalia in 1969 following a fire....
- MS Akarita
- MS Akaroa (1914)MS Akaroa (1914)MS Akaroa was originally built in 1914 by Harland & Wolff of Belfast, the ship was known as the Euripides when she sailed for the Aberdeen and Commonwealth Line. She was 14,947 gross tons at the time and could make a top speed of 15 knots. Her shakedown cruise took place in June 1914, with her...
- MS Akaroa (1959)
- MS Al Hasa
- SS Albert Ballin
- MS Albertic
- SS Alcantara (1914)
- RMS Alcantara (1927)MS Alcantara (1927)RMS Alcantara was an ocean liner of the Royal Mail Lines, a successor to the that had been sunk in World War I.Alcantara was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast, and launched in 1927. She ran the route from Southampton to the east coast of South America...
- MS Alexandr Pushkin
- MS Alexandra
- SS Alferdoss
- SS Alsatian
- MS Amazon
- SS America (1905)
- SS America (1940)SS America (1940)SS America was an ocean liner built in 1940 for the United States Lines and designed by the noted naval architect William Francis Gibbs. She carried many names in the 54 years between her construction and her 1994 wrecking, as she served as the SS America , the USS West Point, the SS Australis, the...
- SS American Pioneer
- SS American Star
- MS Amerikanis
- MS Americana
- SS Amerika
- SS Andes (1913)
- SS Andes (1939)
- SS Andrea DoriaSS Andrea DoriaSS Andrea Doria[p] was an ocean liner for the Italian Line home ported in Genoa, Italy, most famous for its sinking in 1956, when 46 people died. Named after the 16th-century Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, the ship had a gross register tonnage of 29,100 and a capacity of about 1,200 passengers and...
- MS Angelina Lauro
- MS Annie Johnson
- SS AntillesSS AntillesBuilt for the French Line, the Antilles was a near-sister to the SS Flandre of 1952. Her construction was completed and her maiden voyage made in 1953. She differed from her sister mainly because she was painted in white. She was placed on West Indies cruise service in the 1960s.Her career was...
- MS Aorangi
- RMS AquitaniaRMS AquitaniaRMS Aquitania was a Cunard Line ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. She was launched on 21 April 1913 and sailed on her maiden voyage to New York on 30 May 1914...
- SS ArabicSS ArabicSS Arabic may refer to:, an ocean liner sunk by German submarine on 19 August 1915, the former SS Berlin; renamed Arabic in 1920; broken up in 1930...
- MS Aragon
- MS AramisMS AramisMS Aramis was built for Messageries Maritimes for their Europe-Asia colonial route. She was unusual in the fact that her funnels were square-shaped. She was 566 feet long, 69 feet wide and registered 17,537 gross tons. Her diesel engines helped her reach a cruising speed of 15 knots...
- MS Aranda
- SS Arandora StarArandora StarSS Arandora Star was a British registered cruise ship operated by the Blue Star Line from the late 1920s through the 1930s. At the onset of World War II she was assigned as a troop transport and moving refugees. At the end of June 1940 she was assigned the task of transporting German and Italian...
- MS Arawa
- SS Arcadia (1888)
- SS ArcadiaSS Arcadia (1954)SS Arcadia was a passenger liner built for P&O in 1954 to service the UK to Australia route. Towards the end of her life she operated as a cruise ship, based in Sydney, until scrapped in 1979.-History:...
- MS Argentina (1929)MS Argentina (1929)One of a trio of American-built passenger liners on the US-South America route, the Argentina was owned and operated by Moore-McCormack Steamship Lines and sailed this route until she was laid up in 1958.-The Pennsylvania:...
- SS Argentina (1958), renamed Veendam 1971
- MS Arkadia
- MS Arkona
- RMS Arlanza (1912)RMS Arlanza (1912)RMS Arlanza was an ocean liner of the Royal Mail Lines in service from 1912 to 1938.Arlanza was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for service between Southampton and the east coast of South America, in the same slip that earlier had been used to build the Olympic. The Britannic was built in the...
- MS Arlanza (1960), renamed Arawa 1969
- SS Arctic (1850)
- SS Arundel CastleSS Arundel CastleThe RMS Arundel Castle was a British ocean liner which entered service in 1921 for the Union-Castle Line. Her sister ship was the SS Windsor Castle; they were the only four-funneled liners not built for transatlantic service...
- MS Asama MaruAsama MaruThe was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1927-1929 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan....
- MS AstoriaMS AstoriaThe cruise ship Astoria, now known as Saga Pearl II, has been operating for more than 28 years, making cruises world wide. The vessel has a sister-ship Astor. Both ships were operated by Transocean Tours. In August 2009, Saga Cruises made a successful a bid for the ship at auction...
- MS Asturias
- SS AthenicSS AthenicThe SS Athenic was a British passenger liner built by Harland & Wolff shipyards for the White Star Line in 1901. In 1928, she came to a Norwegian company and was renamed the SS Pelagos...
- MS Athlone Castle
- SS Athos II
- MS Atlantic (1927)
- MS Atlantis (1913)
- MS Atlantis (1944)
- MS Atlas
- SS l'AtlantiqueSS L'AtlantiqueSS L'Atlantique, owned by the Compagnie de Navigation Sud Atlantique was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner on the Europe-South America run until her untimely destruction by fire.-History:L'Atlantiques keel was laid on 28 November 1928 at the Chantiers et Ateliers shipyards in St...
- Augusta VictoriaAugusta Victoria (ship)Augusta Victoria, later Auguste Victoria, placed in service in 1889 and named for Empress Augusta Victoria, wife of Emperor Wilhelm II, was the name ship of the Augusta Victoria series and the first of a new generation of luxury Hamburg America Line ocean liners...
- MS Augustus (1928)MS AugustusMS Augustus was a combined ocean liner and cruise ship built in 1927 for Navigazione Generale Italiana. The ship was later transferred to the new Italian Line after the merger of Navigazione Generale Italiana. Her sister ship was SS Roma-History:...
- MS Augustus (1952)MS Augustus (1952)MS Augustus is a 27,090 GRT, luxurious ocean liner built in 1950 for Italian Line. She was the sister ship to MS Giulio Cesare that was launched in the same year. These two ships were built to the same design, with similar specifications. After the Augustus was sold to Hong Kong, she sailed under...
- MS Aurora
- SS Australis
- MS Awani Dream I
- SS Awa Maru (1899)Awa Maru (1899)The was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1899 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan....
- MS Awa Maru (1943)Awa Maru (1943)The was a Japanese ocean liner owned by Nippon Yusen Kaisha. The ship was built in 1941-1943 by Mitsubishi Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. at Nagasaki, Japan...
- MS Axel Johnson (1969), renamed Costa Marina 1990
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- MS Baloeran
- RMS Baltic
- SS Barbarossa
- SS Batavia
- MS BatoryMS BatoryThe M/S Batory was a large ocean liner of the Polish merchant fleet, named after Stefan Batory, the famous sixteenth-Century king of Poland....
- SS BelgicSS BelgicFour ships of the White Star Line have been named SS Belgic: was a cargo steamer launched in 1873, chartered to the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Company in 1875, sold and renamed Goefredo in 1883 and wrecked in 1884. was a cargo steamer launched in 1885 and sold to the Atlantic Transport...
, renamed Belgenland - RMS Berengaria - ex-ImperatorSS ImperatorSS Imperator was an ocean liner built for the Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft launched in 1912. She was the first of a trio of successively larger Hamburg America ships that included and built by the line for transatlantic passenger service...
- MS Bergensfjord, renamed De Grasse 1971
- SS BergensfjordSS BergensfjordSS Bergensfjord was a Norwegian ocean liner that sailed for the Norwegian America Line to the United States. During the Second World War she was requisitioned by the British Ministry of War Transport and used as a troop ship...
, renamed Argentina 1946, Jerusalem 1953, Aliya 1957 - SS Berlin (1909), renamed Arabic 1920
- SS Berlin (1925), renamed Admiral Nakhimov 1957
- MS Bermuda
- MS Bermuda Star
- MS Bianca C.
- SS Bismarck- later RMS Majestic 1921
- MS Black Watch
- MV Bloemfontein CastleMV Bloemfontein CastleThe MV Bloemfontein Castle was a passenger liner. She was launched at Harland & Wolff's yard at Belfast on 24 August, 1949 by Mrs Leif Egeland, wife of the High Commissioner for the Union of South Africa in London. She was completed on 25 March 1950. Built for Union-Castle Line's Intermediate...
- SS Blücher
- MS Brabantia
- MS Braemar Castle
- MS Braemar
- MS Brasil
- MS Brazil
- SS Bremen (1897)SS Bremen (1897)The SS Bremen, later renamed Constantinople and then King Alexander, was a German Barbarossa class ocean liner commissioned in 1897 by Norddeutscher Lloyd.-History:...
- SS Bremen (1929)SS Bremen (1929)The SS Bremen was a German-built ocean liner constructed for the Norddeutscher Lloyd line to work the transatlantic sea route. The Bremen was notable for her bulbous bow construction, high-speed engines, and low, streamlined profile. At the time of her construction, she and her sister ship were...
- MS Bremen (1939)
- SS BretagneSS BretagneSS Bretagne was an ocean liner launched on 20 July 1951 out of Saint-Nazaire; the second of two ships built for the Société Générale de Transport Maritimes which operated passenger lines out of Marseilles. Her sister ship Provence was launched a year earlier at Newcastle...
- MS BritanisSS MontereySS Monterey was a luxury ocean liner launched on 10 October 1931; one of four ships in the Matson Lines "White Fleet" which included , and . Monterey, the third of four Matson ships designed by William Francis Gibbs was identical to Mariposa and very similar to her sister ship Lurline...
- RMS Britannic (1874)
- HMHS Britannic HMHS BritannicHMHS Britannic was the third and largest of the White Star Line. She was the sister ship of and , and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She was launched just before the start of the First World War and was laid up at her builders in Belfast for many months before...
- RMS Britannic (1929)RMS Britannic (1929)RMS Britannic was an ocean liner of the White Star Line, the company's third ship to bear the name. She was built by Harland & Wolff in Belfast. She was launched on 6 August 1929. Like her running mate , Britannic was a motorship powered by diesel engines. She measured 26,943 gross tons and was ...
- MS BrittanySS BretagneSS Bretagne was an ocean liner launched on 20 July 1951 out of Saint-Nazaire; the second of two ships built for the Société Générale de Transport Maritimes which operated passenger lines out of Marseilles. Her sister ship Provence was launched a year earlier at Newcastle...
- MS Byelorussiya
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- SS Caledonia (1914)
- SS Caledonia
- SS Calgarian
- SS CalgaricSS CalgaricSS Calgaric was an ocean liner built in 1918 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company as the Orca. In 1927, she was sold to the White Star Line and renamed Calgaric...
- MS Calypso
- SS Cambodge
- RMS CampaniaRMS CampaniaRMS 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, 8 September 1891....
- MS Canada Star
- SS CanberraSS CanberraSS 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 Belfast, Northern Ireland at a cost of £17,000,000. The ship was named on 17 March 1958, after the federal capital of Australia, Canberra...
- SS Canton
- SS Cap ArconaSS Cap ArconaThe Cap Arcona was a large German luxury ocean liner, formerly of the Hamburg-South America line. It transported passengers between Germany and South America up until 1940 when it was taken over by the German Navy....
- SS Cap Polonio
- SS Cap Trafalgar
- MS Capa Casino
- MS Cape Town Castle
- MS Caribe I
- MS Caribia (1927)
- MS Caribia (1948)
- MS Carla C.
- MS Carla Costa
- RMS Carmania (1905)RMS Carmania (1905)The RMS Carmania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company for the Cunard Line. In World War I the Carmania was converted to an armed merchant cruiser.-History:...
- MS Carmania (1954)
- MS Carnarvon Castle
- SS Caronia (1905)SS Caronia (1905)RMS Caronia was a British ocean liner, launched on 13 July 1904. She was built for Cunard by John Brown & Co. of Glasgow. She left Liverpool on her maiden voyage to New York on 25 February 1905...
- RMS Caronia (1948)RMS CaroniaRMS Caronia was a passenger ship of the Cunard Line . Launched on 30 October 1947, she served with Cunard until 1967. She was nicknamed the "Green Goddess" by the people of Liverpool because her livery resembled that of the local trams, also known as "Green Goddesses". She is credited as one of...
- RMS CarpathiaRMS CarpathiaRMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger steamship built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson. Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the survivors of after the latter ship hit an iceberg and sank on 15 April 1912...
- SS Casserta
- SS CathaySS CathaySS Cathay was the name of a number of ships, including:-*SS Cathay, launched in 1924, served with P & O until bombed and sunk in 1942....
- MS Catlin
- RMS CedricRMS CedricRMS Cedric was laid down in 1902 at the shipyard of Harland and Wolff, Belfast. RMS Cedric was the second of White Star's series known as the "Big Four", the other three being , and . Celtic was the first ship to exceed Brunel's in overall tonnage, which was quite an accomplishment, considering...
- RMS CelticRMS Celtic (1901)RMS Celtic was an ocean liner owned by the White Star Line. The first ship larger than the in gross tonnage, Celtic was the first of a quartet of ships over 20,000 tons, dubbed The Big Four....
- SS Ceramic (1913)SS Ceramic (1913)SS Ceramic was an 18,400-ton ocean liner of the White Star Line launched in 1913, and later sold to the Shaw, Savill & Albion Line. In 1942 sunk the Ceramic, leaving only one survivor from the 656 on board....
- SS Ceramic (1948)
- SS ChamplainSS ChamplainThe SS Champlain was a cabin class ocean liner built in 1932 for the French Line by Chantiers et Ateliers de Saint-Nazaire, Penhoët. She was sunk by a mine off La Pallice, France, in 1940 -- one of the earliest passenger ship losses of the Second World War.Although not as well remembered as her...
- MS Chichibu Maru
- MS Chidambaram
- SS Chitral
- MS Christiaan Huygens
- MS ChrobryMS ChrobryMS Chrobry was a Polish passenger ship built for the Poland - South America Line to replace the aging and the . She was named in honour of the first Polish king Bolesław I Chrobry....
- SS ChusanSS ChusanThe SS Chusan was a British ocean liner and cruise ship, built for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 's Indian and Far East Service in 1950. She was named after Chusan, a small island off China. A smaller version of the SS Himalaya, the Chusan had a gross register tonnage of...
- MS Chuyo
- SS Cincinnati
- MS City of Exeter
- SS City of New YorkSS City of New YorkCity of New York was a British built passenger liner of the Inman Line that was designed to be the largest and fastest liner on the Atlantic. When she entered service in August 1888, she was the first twin screw express liner and while she did not achieve the westbound Blue Riband, she ultimately...
- SS City of Paris (1888)
- MS City of York
- SS ClevelandSS ClevelandThe SS Cleveland was a steam-powered ship that ran in the early 1900s. It was operated by the Hamburg America Line as a cargo and passenger ship between the United States and Germany, and brought many immigrants to the US from Germany during that time....
- MS Club I
- MS Columbia
- SS Columbus (1903)
- SS Columbus (1924)SS Columbus (1924)The Columbus, laid down before the start of World War I, was originally to be named Hindenburg. However, her then-sister, originally named Columbus, was handed over to the White Star Line after the war as part of reparations in 1920. The Allies allowed the Norddeutscher Lloyd , her owners, to keep...
- MS Columbus C.
- MS Commodore Hotel
- SS Comorin
- SS ConstitutionSS ConstitutionThe SS Constitution was an ocean liner owned by American Export Lines. She was commissioned in 1951. She sailed on the New York-Genoa-Naples and Gibraltar route to Europe...
- SS Conte BiancamanoSS Conte BiancamanoConte Biancamano was an Italian liner launched in 1925. The name was chosen in honor of Humbert I Biancamano, founder of the Savoy. She was built in the Scottish shipyards named William Beardmore & Co. in Dalmuir around Glasgow. She was built for the Genovese shipping company named Lloyd Sabaudo...
- MS Conte Grande
- MS Conte Rosso
- SS Conte VerdeSS Conte VerdeSS Conte Verde was an Italian Lloyd Sabaudo Line ocean liner active in the early 20th century.It was built in 1923 and had a GRT of 18.765. She originally provided transatlantic passenger transport between Genoa and New York City. After acquisition by Italian Line in 1932, she became a part of...
- SS Conte di SavoiaSS Conte di SavoiaSS Conte di Savoia was an Italian ocean liner built in 1932 at the Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Trieste.Conte di Savoia was originally ordered for the Lloyd Sabaudo line, however, after a merger with the Navigazione Generale Italiana, the ship was completed for the newly formed Italia Flotte...
- MS Covington
- SS Cristoforo ColomboSS Cristoforo ColomboSS Cristoforo Colombo was an Italian ocean liner built in the 1950s, sister ship of the famed and tragic .-Origins and construction:The origins of the Cristoforo Colombo lie in the situation of the Italian Line at the end of World War II. The war had been devastating to them, as two of their newest...
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- MS D'artagnan
- SS DakotaSS Dakotaright|thumb|300px|SS DakotaThe SS Dakota was a steamship built by the Eastern Shipbuilding Company in Groton, Connecticut and owned by railroad magnate James J...
- MS Danae
- MS Daphne
- SS De Grasse
- MS Delphin
- MS Dempo
- SS Deutschland (1900)SS Deutschland (1900)SS Deutschland was a passenger liner owned by the Hamburg America Line of Germany. She sailed for over 25 years under three different names. The second ship to have been built as a four funnel liner, she was built by Hamburg America as a response to the SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. She was the...
- SS Deutschland (1923)SS Deutschland (1923)SS Deutschland Sometimes called Deutschland IV to distinguish from others of the name was a 21,046 gross registered ton German HAPAG ocean liner which was sunk in a British air attack in 1945, with great loss of life....
- MS Dominion Monarch
- SS Doric (1923)SS Doric (1923)SS Doric was a British ocean liner operated by White Star Line.Doric was White Star's second and last turbine-propelled ship. The vessel was constructed by Harland and Wolff in Belfast and was launched in 1922. Her passenger capacity was 600 in cabin class plus 1,700 3rd. class, with a crew of 350....
- MS Doric (1964)
- SS Douane CastleSS OlympiaThe SS Olympia was a steamship laid down as the SS Doune Castle and upon purchase named the SS Dunbar Castle that served the northwest United States and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. It was built in 1883 by Barclay, Curle and Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Line...
- SS Duchess of Atholl
- SS Duchess of Bedford
- SS Duchess of Richmond
- SS Duchess of YorkSS Duchess of YorkSS Duchess of York was a 20,021 ton ocean liner operated by the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. Built in 1928 in Clydebank by the shipbuilders John Brown & Company, she was originally intended to be named SS Duchess of Cornwall...
- SS DuilioSS DuilioSS Duilio was the first Italian super ocean liner and one of the largest Italian merchant fleet until 1925. She was 24,281 gross tons and was the sister to SS Giulio Cesare that launched in 1921...
- SS Dunbar CastleSS OlympiaThe SS Olympia was a steamship laid down as the SS Doune Castle and upon purchase named the SS Dunbar Castle that served the northwest United States and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. It was built in 1883 by Barclay, Curle and Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Line...
- MS Dunnottar Castle
- MS Dunvegan Castle
- MS Durban Castle
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- RMS Edinburgh Castle
- SS Edinburgh Castle
- MS Edmund B. Alexander
- MS Ellinis
- Emerald Seas
- MS Empire Fowey
- MS Empire Waveney
- MS Empire Welland
- RMS Empress of Asia (1913)
- RMS Empress of Australia (1919) ex-Admiral von Tirpitz, ex-Tirpitz, ex-Empress of China
- RMS Empress of AustraliaRMS Empress of Australia (1924)SS De Grasse was an ocean liner built in 1920-1924 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead, United Kingdom for the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, and launched in February 1924.-Canadian Pacific:...
(1953) ex-de Grasse - RMS Empress of Britain (1906) ante-Montroyal
- RMS Empress of BritainRMS Empress of Britain (1931)The RMS Empress of Britain was an ocean liner built between 1928 and 1931 by John Brown shipyard in Scotland and owned by Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. This ship — second of three CP vessels named Empress of Britain — provided scheduled trans-Atlantic passenger service from spring to autumn...
(1931) - RMS Empress of Britain (1956) ante-Queen Anna Maria, ante-Carnivale, ante-Fiesta Marina, ante-Olympic, ante-Topaz
- RMS Empress of CanadaRMS Empress of Canada (1922)RMS Empress of Canada was an ocean liner built in 1920 for the Canadian Pacific Steamships by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland. This ship -- the first of two CP vessels to be named Empress of Canada -- regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route...
(1922) - RMS Empress of Canada (1928) ex-Duchess of Richmond
- RMS Empress of CanadaRMS Empress of Canada (1961)RMS Empress of Canada was an ocean liner built in 1961 by Vickers-Armstrongs, Walker-on-Tyne, England for the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. This ship, the third CP vessel to be named Empress of Canada, regularly traversed the transatlantic route between Canada and Europe for the next decade...
(1961) ante-Mardi Gras, ante-Olympic, ante-Star of Texas, ante-Lucky Star, ante-Apollo, ante-Apollon - RMS Empress of ChinaRMS Empress of China (1891)RMS Empress of China was an ocean liner built in 1890-1891 by Naval Construction & Armament Co., Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships...
(1891) - RMS Empress of ChinaSS Prinz Friedrich WilhelmSS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was an ocean liner for North German Lloyd from her launch in 1907 until the end of World War I. After the war, she briefly served as USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm for the United States Navy returning American troops from France...
(1908) ex-Prinz Friedrich WilhelmSS Prinz Friedrich WilhelmSS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was an ocean liner for North German Lloyd from her launch in 1907 until the end of World War I. After the war, she briefly served as USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm for the United States Navy returning American troops from France... - RMS Empress of China (1919) ex-Tirpitz, ante-Empress of Australia
- RMS Empress of England (1956)
- RMS Empress of FranceRMS Empress of France (1914)RMS Empress of France, formerly the SS Alsatian was an ocean liner built in 1913-1914 by William Beardmore and Company at Glasgow in Scotland for Allan Line....
(1914) ex-Alsatian - RMS Empress of FranceRMS Empress of France (1928)RMS Empress of France was an ocean liner built in 1928 by John Brown at Clydebank in the United Kingdom for the Canadian Pacific Steamships and launched as the SS Duchess of Bedford in 1928...
ex-Duchess of Bedford - RMS Empress of IndiaRMS Empress of India (1891)RMS Empress of India was an ocean liner built in 1890-1891 by Naval Construction & Armament Co., Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships...
(1891) ante-Loyalty - RMS Empress of India (1908) ex-Prinz Friedrich WilhelmSS Prinz Friedrich WilhelmSS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was an ocean liner for North German Lloyd from her launch in 1907 until the end of World War I. After the war, she briefly served as USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm for the United States Navy returning American troops from France...
, ex-Empress of ChinaSS Prinz Friedrich WilhelmSS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was an ocean liner for North German Lloyd from her launch in 1907 until the end of World War I. After the war, she briefly served as USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm for the United States Navy returning American troops from France...
, ante-Montlaurier, ante-Montieth, ante-Montnairn - RMS Empress of Ireland (1906)
- RMS Empress of JapanRMS Empress of Japan (1891)RMS Empress of Japan, also known as the "Queen of the Pacific", was an ocean liner built in 1890-1891 by Naval Construction & Armament Co., Barrow, England for Canadian Pacific Steamships...
(1891) - RMS Empress of JapanRMS Empress of Japan (1930)RMS Empress of Japan was an ocean liner built in 1929-1930 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships . This ship -- the second of two CP vessels to be named Empress of Japan -- regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route...
(1930) ante-Empress of Scotland, ante-Hanseatic - RMS Empress of Russia (1913)
- RMS Empress of ScotlandRMS Empress of Scotland (1906)RMS Empress of Scotland was the later name of an ocean liner built in 1905-1906 by Vulcan AG shipyard in Stettin for the Hamburg America Line. The ship was launched as the SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria; she regularly sailed between Hamburg and New York until the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914...
(1906) ex-Kaiserin Auguste Victoria - RMS Empress of Scotland (1930) ex-Empress of JapanRMS Empress of Japan (1930)RMS Empress of Japan was an ocean liner built in 1929-1930 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Company at Govan on the Clyde in Scotland for Canadian Pacific Steamships . This ship -- the second of two CP vessels to be named Empress of Japan -- regularly traversed the trans-Pacific route...
, ante-Hanseatic - MS Enrico C.
- RMS EtruriaRMS EtruriaRMS Etruria and her sister ship RMS Umbria were the last two Cunarders that were fitted with auxiliary sails. RMS Etruria was built by John Elder & Co of Glasgow, Scotland in 1884. The Etruria and her sister Umbria, by the standards of the time, were record breakers. They were the largest liners...
- SS Eugenio C.
- SS Euripides (1914)
- MS Europa (1923)
- SS Europa (1930)SS Europa (1930)The SS Europa was a German built ocean liner constructed for the Norddeutsche Lloyd line to work the transatlantic sea route...
- MS Europa (1953)
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- FairskyFairskyFairsky was a passenger ship managed by the Sitmar Line, best known for her service on the migrant passenger route from Britain to Australia from 1958 to the early 1970s. In her later career, she operated out of Australia as a popular cruise ship, until striking an unmarked wreck in 1977 which...
- TSS FairstarTSS FairstarThe Twin Screw Steamer TSS Fairstar was a popular Australian based cruise ship operating out of Sydney for 22 years...
- SS Federico C.
- MS Felix Roussel
- MS Feodor Dostoevskiy
- MS Feodor Shalyapin
- MS Festivale
- MS Fiesta Marina
- MS Filipinas Saudi
- SS FlandreSS FlandreA number of steamships have been named Flandre, a cargo ship built in 1889 for the Wick & Pulteneytown Steamship Co Ltd, wrecked in 1920., an ocean liner built in 1913 for Compagnie Générale Transatlantique which struck a mine and sank in 1940, an ocean liner built in 1951 for the French Line....
- MS Forfar
- SS France (1912)SS France (1912)The SS France was a French ocean liner which sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, colloquially known as CGT or the "French Line". She was the only French liner to have the famous Four stackers, she was later dubbed the Versailles of the Atlantic, a reference to her décor which...
- SS France (1961)SS France (1961)SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962...
- HS Frances Y. Slanger Converted Italian liner Saturnia
- SS Franconia (1911)
- SS Franconia (1923)
- MS Franconia (1955)
- SS Free State Mariner
- SS Friedrich Der Große
- MS Fuji Maru
- MS Fulvia
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- SS Galileo GalileiSS Galileo GalileiSS Galileo Galilei was an ocean liner built in 1963 by Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy for Lloyd Triestino's Italy—Australia service. In 1979 she was converted to a cruise ship, and subsequently sailed under the names Galileo and Meridian...
- MS Galileo
- SS General W. P. Richardson
- SS George WashingtonSS George WashingtonSS George Washington was an ocean liner built in 1908 for the Bremen-based North German Lloyd and was named after George Washington, the first President of the United States. The ship was also known as USS George Washington and USAT George Washington in service of the United States Navy and United...
- MS Georges PhilipparMS Georges PhilipparGeorges Philippar was a 16,990 GRT ocean liner which was built in 1930. She caught fire and sank on her maiden voyage in 1932 with the loss of 54 lives.-History:...
- MV Georgic
- SS Giulio Cesare (1922)
- MS Giulio Cesare (1951)
- SS Gneisenau
- SS GothicSS GothicSS Gothic was a cargo liner launched in 1947. She was the fourth and final of the Corinthic class liners ordered by the Shaw, Savill & Albion Steamship Co. in 1946—her sister ships being , and ....
- RMS Grampian
- SS Great EasternSS Great EasternSS Great Eastern was an iron sailing steam ship designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and built by J. Scott Russell & Co. at Millwall on the River Thames, London. She was by far the largest ship ever built at the time of her 1858 launch, and had the capacity to carry 4,000 passengers around the...
- SS Great WesternSS Great WesternSS Great Western of 1838, was an oak-hulled paddle-wheel steamship; the first purpose-built for crossing the Atlantic and the initial unit of the Great Western Steamship Company. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Great Western proved satisfactory in service and was the model for all successful...
- MS Great Sea
- MS Gripsholm (1925)MS GripsholmMS Gripsholm may refer to one of these passenger ships:, an ocean liner operated by the Swedish American Line, 1925–1954, a combined ocean liner/cruise ship operated by the Swedish American Line, 1957–1975, a cruise ship operated by Transocean Tours 1996–1997...
- MS Gripsholm (1957)MS Gripsholm (1957)MS Gripsholm was a combined ocean liner/cruise ship, built in 1957 by Ansaldo Shipyard, Genoa, Italy for the Swedish American Line for use in transatlantic traffic from Gothenburg to New York as well as long-distance cruising....
- MS Gripsholm (1965)
- SS Grosser Kurfürst
- MS Gruziya
- SS Guglielmo MarconiSS Guglielmo MarconiSS Guglielmo Marconi was a ocean liner launched on 24 September 1961 for Lloyd Triestino's Genoa—Sydney service. Her sister ship was SS Galileo Galilei. The Guglielmo Marconi made her maiden voyage in November 1963. In 1976, Guglielmo Marconi was transferred to the Naples-Brazil-River Plate...
- TS Gunung Djati
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- SS Hamburg (1899)
- SS Hamburg (1926)SS Hamburg (1926)SS Hamburg was a German ocean liner owned by the Hamburg America Line, built by the Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders of Hamburg, Germany and launched in 1926. She had a sister ship the New York. They were similar to the ....
- SS Hamburg (1969)Later SS Maxim GorkiySS Maxim GorkiySS Maxim Gorkiy was a cruise ship that was, until 30 November 2008, owned by Sovcomflot, Russia, under long-term charter to Phoenix Reisen, Germany. She was built in 1969 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, West Germany for the German Atlantic Line as SS Hamburg. In 1973 she was renamed SS...
- MS Hansa (1900)
- MS Hansa (1923)
- MS Hanseatic (1930)
- MS Hanseatic (1964)
- MS Hanseatic (1969)
- SS Harvard
- SS HimalayaSS HimalayaSS Himalaya was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Armstrong and launched 5 October 1948. She began her service on the Tilbury-Bombay-Australia route in 1949 following her departure from the local shipbuilding yard in the August...
- MS Hoegh Traveller
- SS Homeric (1922)SS Homeric (1922)RMS Homeric, originally launched as Columbus, was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd and launched in 1913 at the F. Schichau yard in Danzig. Columbus was ceded to Great Britain in 1919 as part of German war reparations. She was sold to White Star Line in 1920, which named her Homeric. Her sister ship...
- SS Homeric (1931)SS MariposaSS Mariposa was a luxury ocean liner launched in 1931; one of four ships in the Matson Lines "White Fleet" which included , and . It was later renamed the SS Homeric.-Career with Matson Lines:...
- MS Hual Akarita
- MS Hual Traveller
- SS Huntington II
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- SS IberiaSS Iberia (1954)SS Iberia was a Himalaya-class ocean liner for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company built in 1952. Along with her sister ships Himalaya, Arcadia and Chusan, Iberia mainly provided passenger service between the United Kingdom and Australasia.Iberia was constructed in two years by...
- SS Île de FranceSS Ile de FranceThe SS Ile de France was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. The ship was the first major ocean liner built after the conclusion of World War I and was the first liner ever to be decorated entirely with designs associated with the Art Deco...
- SS Imperator (1905)
- SS ImperatorSS ImperatorSS Imperator was an ocean liner built for the Hamburg Amerikanische Packetfahrt Actien Gesellschaft launched in 1912. She was the first of a trio of successively larger Hamburg America ships that included and built by the line for transatlantic passenger service...
- MS Imperial Bahama Hotel
- SS IndependenceSS IndependenceSS Independence was an ocean liner built in 1951 for American Export Lines. Between 1974 and 1982 she sailed as Oceanic Independence for Atlantic Far East Lines and American Hawaii Cruises, after which she reverted to her original name...
- SS Infante Dom Henrique
- MS Italia (1928)
- MS Italia (1947)
- SS Italis
- MS Ivan FrankoMS Ivan FrankoMS Ivan Franko was a cruise ship owned by the Soviet Union's Black Sea Shipping Company. She was built in 1964 by V.E.B. Mathias-Thesen Werft, Wismar, East Germany. She was scrapped in 1997 at Alang, India.-External links:...
- SS IverniaSS IverniaSS Ivernia was a British ocean liner owned by the Cunard Line, built by the company Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson of Newcastle upon Tyne, England and launched in 1899. The Ivernia was one of Cunard's intermediate ships, that catered to the vast immigrant trade. Her sistership was SS Saxonia...
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- MS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
- MS John Ericsson
- MS Justicia
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- SS Kaiser Wilhelm IISS Kaiser Wilhelm IIThe second SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, was a 19,361 gross ton passenger steamer built at Stettin, Germany, completed in the spring of 1903. A famous photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz called The Steerage as well as descriptions of the conditions of travel in the lowest class have conflicted with her...
- SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
- SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
- MS Kamakura Maru
- MS Kareliya
- MS Kazakhstan
- SS Kenya Castle
- SS Kiautschou
- MS King Alexander
- SS König AlbertSS König AlbertThe SS König Albert was a German Barbarossa class ocean liner owned by the Norddeutscher Lloyd Line. Interned in Italy at the outbreak of World War I, she was seized by the Italian Government in 1915 and converted to a hospital ship...
- SS Königin LuiseSS Königin Luise (1896)SS Königin Luise was a built in 1896 by Vulcan Shipbuilding Corp. of Stettin, Germany, for the North German Lloyd line of Bremen.During World War I, Königin Luise was one of only two ships of the class to avoid being interned in neutral ports, spending the war in German ports.Following World War...
- SS KościuszkoSS KosciuszkoThe SS Kościuszko was a Polish passenger ship, named after Tadeusz Kościuszko.She was originally a liner Tsarina and later Lituania before becoming the Kościuszko and afterwards Empire Helford....
- SS Kronprinz WilhelmSS Kronprinz WilhelmSS Kronprinz Wilhelm was a German passenger liner built for the Norddeutscher Lloyd, a former shipping company now part of Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, in 1901...
- SS Kronprinzessin CecilieSS Kronprinzessin CecilieSS Kronprinzessin Cecilie was an ocean liner built in Stettin, Germany in 1906 for North German Lloyd that had the largest steam reciprocating machinery ever fitted to a ship. The last of four ships part of the kaiser class, she was also the last German ship to have been built with four funnels....
- MS Kungsholm (1928)MS Kungsholm (1928)MS Kungsholm was a passenger liner owned and operated by the Swedish American Line from 1928 to 1941 on transatlantic services from Gothenburg to New York as well as cruising out of New York. It was built at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany...
- MS Kungsholm (1953)MS Kungsholm (1953)MS Kungsholm was a combined ocean liner / cruise ship built in 1953 by the De Schelde shipyard in Vlissingen, The Netherlands for the Swedish American Line. Between 1965 and 1981 she sailed for the North German Lloyd and their successor Hapag-Lloyd as MS Europa...
- MS Kungsholm (1965)Mona Lisa (ship)MV Mona Lisa is a cruise ship that was last owned by Leonardo Shipping and operated under charter by Lord Nelson Seereisen . She was built in 1966 by the John Brown & Company shipyard in Clydebank, Scotland as the combined ocean liner / cruise ship MS Kungsholm for the Swedish American Line. She...
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- SS L'AtlantiqueSS L'AtlantiqueSS L'Atlantique, owned by the Compagnie de Navigation Sud Atlantique was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner on the Europe-South America run until her untimely destruction by fire.-History:L'Atlantiques keel was laid on 28 November 1928 at the Chantiers et Ateliers shipyards in St...
- RMS Laconia (1911)RMS Laconia (1911)RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, launched on 27 July 1911, delivered to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912...
- RMS Laconia (1921)RMS Laconia (1921)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...
- MS Laconia (1930)
- MS Lafayette (1930)
- MS Lafayette (1935)
- MS La Guardia
- MS La Marseillaise
- RMS LancastriaRMS LancastriaThe RMS Lancastria was a British Cunard liner sunk on 17 June 1940 during World War II with the loss of an estimated 4,000 plus lives. It is the worst single loss of life in British maritime history and the bloodiest single engagement for UK forces , in the whole conflict and claimed more lives...
- SS LaplandSS LaplandThe SS Lapland was a passenger ship built by the Harland & Wolff for the Red Star Line and launched June 27, 1908. The Lapland looked similar to her sister ships , , but was substantially larger.-Crossings:...
- SS La TouraineSS La TouraineSS La Touraine was an ocean liner that sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique from the 1890s to the 1920s. Built in France in 1891, she was primarily employed in transatlantic service on the North Atlantic...
- SS Laurentic
- MS Leilani
- MS Lejeune
- MS Leonid Brezhnev
- MS Leonid Sobinov
- SS LeviathanSS LeviathanSS Leviathan, originally built as SS Vaterland, was an ocean liner which regularly sailed the North Atlantic briefly in 1914 and from 1917 to 1934...
- MS Liberte (1930)
- SS Liberte (1950) ex SS EuropaSS EuropaA number of steamships have been named SS Europa after the continent of Europe:, an ocean liner operated by the North German Lloyd 1930–1945, a 16,504-ton ocean liner in Europe—North America immigrant service in 1950–51...
- MS Liguria
- SS Limburgia
- MS Lombardia
- RMS LucaniaRMS LucaniaRMS Lucania 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, 2 February 1893....
- MS Lucky Star
- SS LurlineSS Lurline (1932)SS Lurline was the third Matson Lines vessel to hold that name and the last of four fast and luxurious ocean liners that Matson built for the Hawaii and Australasia runs from the West Coast of the United States. Lurlines sister ships were , and...
- RMS LusitaniaRMS LusitaniaRMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. The ship entered passenger service with the Cunard Line on 26 August 1907 and continued on the line's heavily-traveled passenger service between Liverpool, England and New...
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- SS Maasdam (1952)
- RMS Majestic, ex-Bismarck
- SS Maxim GorkiySS Maxim GorkiySS Maxim Gorkiy was a cruise ship that was, until 30 November 2008, owned by Sovcomflot, Russia, under long-term charter to Phoenix Reisen, Germany. She was built in 1969 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Hamburg, West Germany for the German Atlantic Line as SS Hamburg. In 1973 she was renamed SS...
- SS Maloja
- SS MaloloSS MaloloSS Malolo was an American Cruise liner built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia in 1926 for the Matson Line. She was the first of a number of ships designed by William Francis Gibbs for the Matson Line. The Matson Line did much to develop tourism in the Hawaiian Islands...
- SS Manchuria
- MS Marco PoloMS Marco PoloMS Marco Polo is a cruise ship owned by Global Maritime, under charter to UK-based Cruise & Maritime Voyages, having been previously operated by Transocean Tours, Germany. She was built in 1965 by Mathias-Thesen Werft, East Germany as MS Alexandr Pushkin for the Soviet Union's Baltic Shipping Company...
- MS Mardi Gras
- MS Margarita L
- MS Marianna 9
- MS Marianna Lasti
- MS Marianna Lasti
- SS MariposaSS MariposaSS Mariposa was a luxury ocean liner launched in 1931; one of four ships in the Matson Lines "White Fleet" which included , and . It was later renamed the SS Homeric.-Career with Matson Lines:...
- MS Marnix van Sint Aldegonde
- MS Massilia
- SS Matsonia (1926)SS MaloloSS Malolo was an American Cruise liner built by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia in 1926 for the Matson Line. She was the first of a number of ships designed by William Francis Gibbs for the Matson Line. The Matson Line did much to develop tourism in the Hawaiian Islands...
- SS Matsonia (1932)SS MontereySS Monterey was a luxury ocean liner launched on 10 October 1931; one of four ships in the Matson Lines "White Fleet" which included , and . Monterey, the third of four Matson ships designed by William Francis Gibbs was identical to Mariposa and very similar to her sister ship Lurline...
- RMS Mauretania (1906)RMS Mauretania (1906)RMS Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, Tyne and Wear for the British Cunard Line, and launched on 20 September 1906. At the time, she was the largest and fastest ship in the world. Mauretania became a favourite among...
- RMS Mauretania (1938)RMS Mauretania (1938)RMS Mauretania was launched on 28 July 1938 at the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, England and was completed in May 1939. A successor to RMS Mauretania , the second Mauretania was the first ship built for the newly formed Cunard White Star company following the merger in April 1934 of the Cunard...
- MS Mediterranean Island
- MS Mediterranean Sea
- MS Mediterranean Sky
- MS Mediterranean Star
- SS MeganticSS Megantic (1909)SS Megantic was an ocean liner built by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, and operated by the White Star Line. The liner was launched in 1908 and was . The ship was attacked by a German U-boat during World War I, but survived...
- SS Melita
- MS Meloly
- MS Mercury
- MS Meridian
- SS Michelangelo
- MS Mikhail Lermontov
- MS Millennium
- MS Milwaukee
- SS MinnedosaSS MinnedosaSS Minnedosa was a 15,000 ton steam ocean liner built in Glasgow on the River Clyde for the Canadian Pacific Shipping Line by Barclay Curle in 1918. She was used on the Liverpool to St John, New Brunswick run and called at all the major transatlantic ports...
- SS Minnekahda
- SS Minnesota
- SS Minnetonka
- SS MinnewaskaSS MinnewaskaSS Minnewaska was a 21,716-ton ocean liner in the service of the Atlantic Transport Line and the Red Star Line from 1923–1933She was the fourth ship of the Atlantic Transport Line to carry the name “Minnewaska”...
- MS Mistral
- MS Mobil
- SS Moldavia
- SS Moltke
- MS Monarch Star
- MS Monarch Sun
- SS Monarch of Bermuda
- SS Mongolia (1903)
- SS Mongolia (1922)
- SS Montcalm
- SS Montclare
- MS Monteith
- SS MontereySS MontereySS Monterey was a luxury ocean liner launched on 10 October 1931; one of four ships in the Matson Lines "White Fleet" which included , and . Monterey, the third of four Matson ships designed by William Francis Gibbs was identical to Mariposa and very similar to her sister ship Lurline...
(1932) - MS Monterey (1952) (ex-Free State Mariner)
- MS Monticello
- MS Montlaurier
- MS Montnairn
- SS MontroseSS MontroseSS Montrose was a transatlantic ocean liner for Elder, Dempster & Company and the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. She is most notable as the vessel on which Hawley Crippen and his lover, Ethel La Neve, fled England after Crippen's wife was murdered....
- MS Montroyal
- SS Mooltan
- MS Mount Vernon (1906)
- MS Mount Vernon (1933)
- SS MulberaSS MulberaSS Mulbera was a British ocean liner owned by the British-India Steam Navigation Company or "BI", built by Alexander Stephen and Sons of Glasgow, Scotland and delivered to the company in June 1922....
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- SS Naldera
- SS Narkunda
- SS Naronic
- MS Nassau
- MS Navarino
- MS Nea Hellas
- MS Neptunia
- SS Nevasa
- MS New Australia
- MS New York (1922)
- SS New York (1927)
- MS Nippon Maru
- SS Nitta Maru
- SS Noga
- MS NoordamMS NoordamMS Noordam is a member of Holland America Line's Vista class. The ship was christened on February 22, 2006, in New York City by the actress Marlee Matlin. Noordam is a sister ship of MS Oosterdam, MS Westerdam, MS Zuiderdam and P&O Cruises' MS Arcadia...
- MS Nordic Empress
- MS Nordic Prince
- SS NormandieSS NormandieSS Normandie was an ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat; she is still the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built.Her novel...
- SS Northern Star
- SS Norway see SS France (1961)SS France (1961)SS France was a Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner, constructed by the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France, and put into service in February 1962...
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- MS Oceania
- RMS Oceanic (1870)RMS Oceanic (1870)RMS Oceanic was the White Star Line's first liner and an important turning point in passenger liner design.-Design and construction:Oceanic was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and was launched on 27 August 1870, arriving in Liverpool for her maiden voyage on 26 February 1871...
- RMS Oceanic (1899)RMS Oceanic (1899)RMS Oceanic was a transatlantic ocean liner, built for the White Star Line. She sailed on her maiden voyage on 6 September 1899 and, until 1901, was the largest ship in the world...
- Oceanic (unfinished ship)Oceanic (unfinished ship)Oceanic was the planned name of an unfinished ocean liner that was partially built by Harland and Wolff for the White Star Line. The ship was to have been the first -long ocean liner....
- MS Oceanic (1932)
- SS Oceanic (1965)
- MS Odessa Sky
- SS Ohio (1870)
- MS Olvia
- MS Olympia Countess
- SS OlympiaSS OlympiaThe SS Olympia was a steamship laid down as the SS Doune Castle and upon purchase named the SS Dunbar Castle that served the northwest United States and Alaska during the Klondike Gold Rush. It was built in 1883 by Barclay, Curle and Co. of Glasgow, Scotland, for the Union-Castle Line...
(1883) - SS OlympiaMS Regal EmpressMS Regal Empress was a cruise ship that recently operated for Imperial Majesty Cruise Line. She was built in 1953 by Alexander Stephen & Sons at Glasgow, Scotland as the ocean liner SS Olympia for the Greek Line. Greek Line withdrew the Olympia from service in 1974...
(1953), renamed Caribe (1981), MS Caribe I (1983), MS Regal EmpressMS Regal EmpressMS Regal Empress was a cruise ship that recently operated for Imperial Majesty Cruise Line. She was built in 1953 by Alexander Stephen & Sons at Glasgow, Scotland as the ocean liner SS Olympia for the Greek Line. Greek Line withdrew the Olympia from service in 1974...
(1993) - RMS OlympicRMS OlympicRMS Olympic was the lead ship of the Olympic-class ocean liners built for the White Star Line, which also included Titanic and Britannic...
- MS Olympic (1956)
- MS Olympic (1961)
- RMS Orama (1911)
- RMS Orama (1924)
- MS OranjeAngelina LauroMS Oranje, later known as MS Angelina Lauro, was a passenger liner, a wartime hospital ship and finally a cruise ship that was lost while being towed for scrap. She sank in a storm in the mid-Pacific, on 24 September 1979. The ship underwent 25 years' service as MS Oranje, and fifteen as MS...
- RMS Orbita
- SS Orcades (1937)
- SS Orcades (1948)
- SS Orca
- RMS Orcoma
- SS OrdunaSS OrdunaSS Orduna was an ocean liner built in 1913-14 by Harland & Wolff in Belfast for the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. After two voyages she was chartered to Cunard Line. In 1921 she went to the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, then being resold to the PSNCo in 1926...
- SS Orford
- SS Oriana (1959)SS Oriana (1959)SS Oriana was the last of the Orient Steam Navigation Company's ocean liners. She was built at Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria and launched on 3 November 1959 by Princess Alexandra...
- MS Orient Venus
- MS Oriental Carnaval
- MS Oriental Empress
- MS Oriental Esmeralda
- MS Oriental Rio
- RMS OrionRMS OrionRMS Orion was an ocean liner launched by the Orient Steam Navigation Company in 1934 and retired from the water in 1963 after carrying about 500,000 passengers...
- SS Oronsay (1925)SS Oronsay (1925)For other ships called SS Oronsay, see OronsaySS Oronsay was an ocean liner built for the Orient Steam Navigation Company. Her maiden voyage started on 7 February 1925 from London to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. She continued on this route until the outbreak of World War II...
- SS Oronsay (1951)SS Oronsay (1951)For other ships of the same name, see Oronsay.SS Oronsay was the second Orient Line ship built after World War II. A sister ship to SS Orcades, she was named after one of many islands called Oronsay on the west coast of Scotland....
- SS OrontesSS OrontesThe SS Orontes was a passenger ship owned by Orient Line.The ship was built in 1929 by Vickers Armstrong LTD. at Barrow-in-Furness, England.Its sister ships were Orama , Orford, Oronsay, and Otranto .- Service :...
- SS OrsovaSS OrsovaSS Orsova may refer to:, an ocean liner operated by the Orient Steam Navigation Company 1909—1936., an ocean liner operated by the Orient Steam Navigation Company 1954—1966....
- RMS Orotava
- RMS Orvieto
- MS Oslofjord (1938)MS Oslofjord (1938)MS Oslofjord was an ocean liner built in 1938 by A/G Weser Shipbuilders, Bremen, Germany for Norwegian America Line. She was 18,673 gross register tons, and could carry 860 passengers. She sank on 21/22 January 1941 after hitting a mine off the River Tyne on 1 December 1940, after just two years of...
- MS Oslofjord (1949)MS Oslofjord (1949)MS Oslofjord was a combined ocean liner/cruise ship built in 1949 by Netherlands Shipbuilding Company, Amsterdam, The Netherlands for Norwegian America Line. As built she was 16,844 gross register tons, and could carry 620 passengers. In 1967—1968 she was charered to Greek Line and from 1968...
- SS OtrantoHMS OtrantoHMS Otranto was a First World War Royal Navy armed merchant cruiser. She was originally the SS Otranto, built in 1909 by the Belfast yard of Workman Clark for the Orient Steam Navigation Company.-Passenger ship:...
- SS OtwaySS OtwaySS Otway was a British ocean liner owned by the Orient Line, built by Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company of Glasgow, Scotland and launched in 1909....
- SS Oxfordshire
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- MS Pallas Athena
- SS Paris (1916)
- SS Parthia
- SS Pasteur (1939)SS Bremen (1957)SS Pasteur was a turbine steam ship built for Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique. She later sailed as the Bremen for Norddeutscher Lloyds...
- SS Pasteur (1966)
- MS Patria
- MS Patriot
- MS Patris
- MS Paul Gauguin
- SS Pendennis Castle
- MS Pennland
- SS Pennsylvania (1896)SS Pennsylvania (1896)SS Pennsylvania was a combination ocean liner and merchant ship built by Harland & Wolff, Belfastand launched in 1896 for the German Hamburg America Line for the transatlantic trade, particularly German emigration to the United States. She took refuge in the United States upon the outbreak of the...
- MS Philippines
- MS Piemonte
- MS Piłsudski
- SS Pittsburgh
- SS Polonia
- MS Port Melbourne
- MS Port Sydney
- SS PotsdamSS PotsdamSS Potsdam may refer to:, passenger steamer for Hollannd America Line, 1900–1915; Stockholm for Swedish American Line, 1915–1929; Norwegian whale factory ship Solglimt, 1929–1940; following German invasion of Norway, became Sonderburg for the First German Whaling Company, 1940; scuttled in...
- SS President ClevelandSS President ClevelandSS President Cleveland may refer to one of the following ships of American President Lines:, converted to military use first by the US Army, as the USAT Tasker H. Bliss and later by the US Navy as the USS Tasker H. Bliss., planned as USS Admiral D. W...
- SS President CoolidgeSS President CoolidgeThe SS President Coolidge was a luxury ocean liner that was originally built, along with her sister ship the SS President Hoover, for Dollar Steamship Lines. They were the largest merchant ships the US had built up to that time. In 1938, when the Dollar Steamship Lines collapsed, she was...
- SS President Grant
- SS President Hoover
- SS President Johnson
- SS President Lincoln
- SS President RooseveltSS President RooseveltSS President Roosevelt may refer to:, a Design 1029 ship launched as Peninsula State; renamed President Pierce in May 1922, then President Roosevelt in August 1922; during World War II served the United States Army as USAT Joseph T. Dickman and the United States Navy as USS Joseph T. Dickman ;...
- SS President Wilson
- MS President
- MS Pretoria Castle (1939)HMS Pretoria Castle (F61)HMS Pretoria Castle was an armed merchant cruiser and escort aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that saw service during World War II...
- SS Pretoria Castle (1948)Pretoria CastlePretoria Castle may refer to one of the following ships:, a Union-Castle Line ocean liner acquired by the Royal Navy in World War II; employed as armed merchant cruiser; later converted to escort carrier; resold to Union-Castle in 1946; scrapped in 1962...
- SS Pretoria
- MS Pride of Galveston
- MS Pride of Mississippi
- MS Princesa Victoria
- MS Princess Danae
- SS Principe PerfeitoSS Principe PerfeitoSS Principe Perfeito was passenger ship built in 1961 by Swan Hunter on the River Tyne. She first entered service for the Companhia Nacional de Navegacao, often abbreviated as CNN....
- SS Prinz Friedrich WilhelmSS Prinz Friedrich WilhelmSS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm was an ocean liner for North German Lloyd from her launch in 1907 until the end of World War I. After the war, she briefly served as USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm for the United States Navy returning American troops from France...
- SS Prinzess Irene
- SS Provence
- SS Pułaski
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- MS Queen Anna Maria
- RMS Queen ElizabethRMS Queen ElizabethRMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line. Plying with her running mate Queen Mary as a luxury liner between Southampton, UK and New York City, USA via Cherbourg, France, she was also contracted for over twenty years to carry the Royal Mail as the second half of the two...
- RMS Queen Elizabeth 2RMS Queen Elizabeth 2Queen Elizabeth 2, often referred to simply as the QE2, is an ocean liner that was operated by Cunard from 1969 to 2008. Following her retirement from cruising, she is now owned by Istithmar...
- MS Queen Frederica
- SS Queen of Bermuda (1933)
- MS Queen of Bermuda (1958)
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- SS Raffaello
- SS RajputanaSS RajputanaThe SS Rajputana was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner. She was built for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company at the Harland and Wolff docks on the River Clyde near Glasgow, Scotland in 1925. She was one of the P&O 'R' class liners from 1925 that had much of their...
- SS RanchiSS RanchiThe SS Ranchi was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner. During World War II she served as an armed merchant cruiser HMS Ranchi.-P&O career:...
- MS Rangitane (1929)MS Rangitane (1929)The RMS Rangitane was a passenger liner owned by the New Zealand Shipping Company. She was one of three sister ships delivered to the company in 1929 for the All-Red Route between Britain and New Zealand...
- MS Rangitane (1949)
- MS Rangitata
- MS Rangitiki
- MS Rangitoto
- MS Rang
- SS RanpuraSS RanpuraThe SS Ranpura was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner built by R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie and Company at Newcastle upon Tyne for the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company in 1924. She was the first of the P&O 'R' class liners that had much of their interiors designed by Lord...
- MS Rasa Sayang
- SS Rawalpindi
- SS ReginaSS ReginaSS Regina was a tanker built in Belfast in 1904 that sank in 1940 near Bradenton Beach, Florida, United States. It is located in the Gulf of Mexico, 75 yards off the coast from Bradenton Beach. In April 2005, it became the tenth Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve. On December 6 of the same...
- SS Reina del MarSS Reina del MarReina del Mar was a 13,824 GRT cruise ship which was built by Vickers-Armstrongs in 1950. She served with Furness Withy for fifteen years, then with a Bulgarian company for three years, renamed Varna. She spent much of the 1970s laid up, and was renamed Venus and then Riviera...
- MS Reina del PacificoReina del PacificoRMMV Reina del Pacifico was a passenger ship operated by the Pacific Steam Navigation Company. Built by Harland & Wolff at Belfast, she was launched on 23 September 1930, and was the largest and fastest motor liner of her time, sailing from Liverpool to the Caribbean, Panama Canal and South...
- SS Reliance
- MS Repubblica di Amalfi
- MS Repubblica di Genova
- MS Repubblica di Pisa
- MS Repubblica di Venezia
- RMS Republic (1903)RMS Republic (1903)RMS Republic was a steam-powered ocean liner built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff in Belfast, and lost at sea in a collision six years later while sailing for the White Star Line. A CQD distress call was issued on the new Marconi radio device, the first recorded, resulting in the saving of around...
- MS Republic (1907)
- MS Resolute
- SS RexSS RexThe SS Rex was an Italian ocean liner launched in 1931. It held the westbound Blue Riband between 1933 and 1935. Originally built for the Navigazione Generale Italiana as the SS Guglielmo Marconi, its state-ordered merger with the Lloyd Sabaudo line meant that the ship sailed for the newly created...
- MS Rhapsody (1957)
- SS Rhodesia Castle
- MS Rimutaka
- MS Robert Ley
- SS RomaSS RomaSS Roma can refer to multiple ships:*SS Roma *MV Doulos...
- MS Rossia
- SS RotterdamSS RotterdamThe fifth SS Rotterdam, known as "The Grande Dame", was launched by Queen Juliana in a gala ceremony on 13 September 1958, and completed the following summer. The Rotterdam was the last great Dutch "ship of state", employing the finest artisans from the Netherlands in her construction and fitting...
- SS Rotterdam (1908)
- SS Rotterdam (1959)
- MS Ruahine
- SS Ryndam (1951)
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- MS S.A.Oranje
- MS S.A.Vaal
- MS Sabaudia
- MS Safina-E-Hujjaj
- MS Saga Rose
- MS Sagafjord
- SS Samaria
- MS Santa Cruz
- SS Santa Maria
- SS Santa PaulaSS Santa PaulaThe SS Santa Paula was a passenger/cargo ship built for the Grace Line South American service in 1958, later sailing on Caribbean cruises out of New York...
- SS Santa Rosa
- MS Saturnia (later HS Frances Y. Slanger)
- MS Saudi Phili
- SS Scharnhorst (1904)SS Scharnhorst (1904)The SS Scharnhorst was a German passenger liner launched in 1904. The ship was laid down at the Tecklenborg Shipping Yard in Geestemünde, Germany, for the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company....
- SS Scharnhorst (1934)SS Scharnhorst (1934)SS Scharnhorst was a German ocean liner launched in 1934 and completed in 1935 by DeSchiMAG in Bremen. She was one of three sister ships built at the same time for Norddeutscher Lloyd, the other two being SS Gneisenau and SS Potsdam...
- MS Scotstoun
- RMS ScythiaRMS ScythiaRMS Scythia was a Cunard liner. She sailed on her maiden voyage in 1921, and became a troop and supply ship during the Second World War. Scythia was the longest serving Cunard liner until 4 September 2005, when its record was surpassed by RMS Queen Elizabeth 2.-History:Following heavy losses during...
- SS ShalomSS ShalomSS Shalom was a combined ocean liner/cruise ship built in 1964 by Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France for ZIM Lines, Israel for transatlantic service from Haifa to New York. In 1967 she was sold to the German Atlantic Line, becoming their second SS Hanseatic...
- MS Shin Sakura Maru
- MS Shin-yo
- MS Silver Cloud
- MS Sitmar Fairwind
- MS SobieskiMS SobieskiM/S Sobieski was a Polish passenger ship built for the Polish Ocena Lines to replace the aging and ; a sister ship to the MS Chrobry. She was named in honour of the Polish king Jan III Sobieski....
- SS Southern Cross (1955)SS Southern Cross (1955)SS Southern Cross was an ocean liner built in 1955 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the United Kingdom-based Shaw, Savill & Albion Line for Europe—Australia service...
- MS Southern Cross (1972)
- MS Southward
- MS Sovetsky Sojus
- MS Soyuz
- MS Spirit of London
- SS St. Louis (1894)
- MS St. Louis
- SS St. Paul
- MS Star of Texas
- MS Stardancer
- SS Statendam (1917)
- SS Statendam (1927)
- SS Statendam (1957)
- MS Stefan
- TSS Stefan BatoryTSS Stefan BatoryThe TS/S Stefan Batory was an ocean liner built in Holland in 1952 under the name of SS Maasdam, initially used to service the Dutch East Indies by the Holland America Line....
- SS Stella Oceanis
- SS Stella Polaris
- SS Stella SolarisSS Stella SolarisSS Stella Solaris was an ocean liner built for the Messageries Maritimes in 1952...
- MV Stirling CastleMV Stirling CastleRMMV Stirling Castle was an ocean liner of the Union-Castle Line in service from the 1930s to the 1960s, primarily on the Southampton to Cape Town route....
- MS Stockholm (1938)
- MS Stockholm (1941)MS Stockholm (1941)MS Stockholm was the name of two near-identical ocean liners built by Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico, Monfalcone, Italy between 1936 and 1941 for the Swedish American Line...
- SS Stockholm
- MS Strassburg
- SS Strathaird
- SS Strathallan
- SS Stratheden
- SS Strathmerton
- SS Strathmore
- SS Strathnaver
- MS Switzerland
- SS Sylvania
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- MS Tanjung Pandan
- MS Tatsuta Maru
- MS Tatuta Maru
- MS Teia Maru (Teia Maru)
- MS Teiko Maru
- RMS Teutonic
- SS The EmeraldSS The EmeraldSS The Emerald is a cruise ship owned by the Cyprus-based shipping company Louis Cruise Lines. She was built in 1958 by the Northrop Grumman Shipyard in Gulfport, Mississipi, USA for Grace Lines as SS Santa Rosa...
- SS Tirpitz renamed RMS Empress of Australia in 1921
- RMS Titanic
- MS Titibu Maru
- MS Topaz
- SS Transvaal Castle
- SS TransylvaniaSS TransylvaniaHMS Transylvania was a British liner later converted into an armed merchant cruiser, pennant F56. She was launched on 11 March 1925 and sunk by the German U-boat on 10 August 1940....
- MS Traveller
- MS Tropicale
- MS Troy
- SS Tuscania (1914)SS Tuscania (1914)The SS Tuscania was a luxury liner of the Cunard subsidiary Anchor Line, named after a town in Italy. She was torpedoed in 1918 by the German U-boat UB-77 while carrying American troops to Europe and sank with a loss of 210 lives.-Commercial career:...
- SS Tyrrhenia
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- SS UgandaSS UgandaSS Uganda was a passenger liner, then cruise ship, hospital ship and troop ship between 1952 and 1986.-Passenger liner:Initially Uganda operated as a passenger/cargo liner of the British-India Steam Navigation Company , between London and East Africa, calling at Gibraltar, Naples, Port Said, Aden,...
- MS Un-yo
- SS United StatesSS United StatesSS United States is a luxury passenger liner built in 1952 for the United States Lines designed to capture the trans-Atlantic speed record....
- MS Uruguay
- RMS UmbriaRMS UmbriaRMS Umbria and her sister ship RMS Etruria were the last two Cunarders that were fitted with auxiliary sails. RMS Umbria was built by John Elder & Co at Glasgow, Scotland in 1884. The “Umbria” and her sister “Etruria” were record breakers. They were the largest liners then in service and they plied...
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- MS Vasco Da Gama
- SS Vaterland (1914)
- SS Vaterland (1940)SS Vaterland (1940)The second Vaterland built for the Hamburg-Amerika Line, this 824-feet, 41,000 ton liner's construction was postponed due to World War II. She was finally launched in 1940 but she was laid up because of World War II. She was destroyed by Allied bombers in 1943.Her wreckage was scrapped in 1948....
- SS Veendam (1923)
- MS Veendam (1958)
- MS Venezuela
- SS Vera Cruz
- MS Vera
- SS Viceroy of IndiaRMS Viceroy of IndiaThe RMS Viceroy of India was an ocean liner that was owned and operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company Ltd. of Great Britain....
- MS Victoria (1936)MS Victoria (1936)The MS Dunnottar Castle was the original name of a twin-screw passenger ship built in 1936 and more widely known under her later name Victoria or The Victoria. Victoria was a cruise liner first operated by the Incres Steamship Co and later by Chandris Lines in the Caribbean Sea...
- MS Victoria (1966)
- MS Victoria Luise
- MS Viking Serenade
- MS Vineta
- SS Virginia
- RMS Virginian
- SS Volendam (1922)
- MS Volendam (1958)
- MS VulcaniaMS VulcaniaThe MS Vulcania was an Italian ocean liner built by Cantiere Navale Triestino, Monfalcone, northern Italy in 1926 for the Italian company, Cosulich Line.-Characteristics:...
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- MS Wakefield
- MS Warwick Castle (1930)
- MS Warwick Castle (1939)
- SS WashingtonSS WashingtonSS Washington was a 24,189-ton luxury liner of the United States Lines, named after the US capital city.-Construction:She was ordered by Transatlantic Steamship Company and laid down on 20 January 1931 in Shipway O at New York Shipbuilding in Camden, New Jersey...
- MS Waterman
- MS West Point
- MS Westernland
- MS Westward
- KdF Wilhelm Gustloff
- MS Willem Ruys
- MS Winchester Castle
- SS WindhukSS WindhukUSS Lejeune was a German cargo liner that was converted to a US Navy troop transport during the Second World War. Her original name was TS Windhuk.-Civilian liner:...
- SS Windsor Castle (1922)SS Windsor Castle (1922)The first RMS Windsor Castle, along with her sister, , was an ocean liner laid down by the Union-Castle Line for service from the United Kingdom to South Africa. Originally laid down in 1916, their construction was held up by the First World War. They were not completed until 1922. They were the...
- SS Windsor Castle (1960)