what is true about ocean liners?
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Whatâs the Difference Between Cruise Ships and Ocean Liners? In regular maritime jargon, a ship that has a regular ocean-going route from point A to point B is an ocean liner, even if it doesn’t carry passengers. The prominent passenger carrying ocean liners of recent decades have been the Queen Elizabeth 2, and more recently the Queen Mary 2, completed in 2003. In fact, the Queen Mary 2 was the first dedicated passenger service ocean liner built in over 30 years, and is now the sole true ocean liner carrying passengers in the world. With the advent of fast air travel and the dawning of the cruise industry, retired ocean liners were converted into cruise ships.
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- The RMS Olympic did not sink. It was the sistership of the famous ill-fated liner, the RMS Titanic. The Olympic went on to serve as a warship in WWI, then returned to being a lavish passenger liner until the 1930's, when the Olympic (nicknamed Old Reliable) was sold, and scrapped.
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- These are ocean liner collectibles exclusively from The SS United States Liner. These are ocean liner collectibles exclusively from The SS United States Liner. I purchased most of these items in big lots, right from the ship between 1984 - 1986. Most of these SS United States collectibles have been brought out of cold storage after all these years, and offered up for sale.
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How Dreams Can Reveal Your Personal Myths How Dreams Can Reveal Your Personal Myths. In June 2011, a man in England bought a small fishing boat and jokingly named it Titanic II. On its maiden voyage into the West Bay harbor in Dorset, the boat filled with water and sank within hours. The Coast Guard found the captain clinging to the hull of the boat and rescued him.
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- Titanic is perhaps the most iconic ship in history, its tragic story known the world over. The most celebrated ocean liner of its time even before it first sailed, Titanic was an incredible feat of engineering and ambition. Its maiden voyage ended in tragedy when it struck an iceberg and sank, killing more than 1,500 passengers and crew.
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- A Type A ship is one which: is designed to carry only liquid cargoes in bulk;has a high integrity of the exposed deck with only small access openings to cargo compartments, cl … osed by watertight gasketed covers of steel or equivalent material; andhas low permeability of loaded cargo compartments.
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10 of the Worst Ship Disasters Ever RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912 after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, UK, to New York City, US.
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Olympic -class ocean liner Olympic-class ocean liner. The Olympic-class ocean liners were a trio of British ocean liners built by the Harland & Wolff shipyard for the White Star Line during the early 20th century. They were Olympic (1911), Titanic (1912), and Britannic (1915).
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Rare Titanic Underwater Expedition Images Released: 100 Years On, Ship Rests 12,000 Feet Deep On Seabed (PHOTOS) Scientists plan to illuminate and then raise the hull section of this legendary ocean liner later this month. Reuters. Wreckage from the Titanic lies on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean as viewed by a remotely-operated vehicle August 7, 1998.
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10 Lesser-Known Facts About the Titanic 10 Lesser-Known Facts About the Titanic. The Titanic was a mighty ship brought to its knees by an iceberg. It’s a ship few people on this Earth have never heard of—a real life fable told from generation to generation so that we might learn the lessons of our forefathers. Don’t reach to far too fast or you might come a cropper.
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On board a ghost ship: Inside the eerie wreckage of the Costa Concordia four years after the luxury cruise liner sank killing 32 people On board a ghost ship: Inside the eerie wreckage of the Costa Concordia four years after the luxury cruise liner sank killing 32 people. Rusted and rotting, these ghostly photographs show the brittle remains of the Costa Concordia - the once grandiose cruise liner that sank off the coast of Italy in 2012, killing 32 people.
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- Reserve your preferred departure date and we will advise you once the 2018 trip is finalized and priced. You will then have two weeks to cancel; should you cancel, you'll receive a full refund of your trip deposit and the cost of the Travel Protection Product (if purchased).
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Olympic -class ocean liner Although the two younger vessels did not have successful careers, they are among the most famous ocean liners ever built. Both Olympic and Titanic briefly enjoyed the distinction of being the largest ships in the world; Olympic would be the largest British-built ship in the world for over 20 years until the launch of RMS Queen Mary in 1936.
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Cruise ships Cruising on Cruise ships is a means of travel with some substantial benefits, but a few drawbacks too. The majority of people love them, but some people hate them.
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- In the 1970's, scientists sailed back and forth across the world’s oceans, measuring the magnetic signatures emanating from the oceanic crust beneath their ships. These surveys revealed a series of invisible magnetic “stripes” of normal and reversed polarity in the sea floor, like that shown in the figure below.
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- From myth and fact to the mysteries of the ship’s history, Titanic ’s story has captured the world’s attention for over a century. It is most often the odd or lesser known tidbits of information that people find the most fascinating.
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"What animal is called the ""ship of the desert""? How did it get this name?" Camels are known as the ships of the desert. They can glide across desert sands with ease, and provide one of the most important modes of transportation for people in desert areas. When there is plenty of food, they eat a lot and store fat in their humps.
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Facts About the Real Titanic In 1907, White Star Line Chairman J. Bruce Ismay met with Lord Pirrie, the head shipbuilder at Harland and Wolff, to plan the construction of three new gigantic liners, the Olympic, Titanic and Gigantic (later named Britannic).
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- Our 10 ships all offer something a little different, but the one thing they all have in common is they're built to make your vacation everything you wanted-and then some.It's no wonder that Celebrity cruises are consistently ranked the best in the world.ur 10 ships all offer something a little different, but the one thing they all have in common is they're built to make your vacation everything you wanted-and then some.
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Ship Preview: Freedom of the Seas Water, Water, Everywhere. With all its bells and whistles, the ship’s surf park is creating big waves in the cruise industry. A 32-foot-wide by 40-foot-long FlowRider R generates waves for guests to surf or body-board. Water is forced up a sloped, cushioned platform to create a constant pattern of waves.
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Containerboard The production of containerboard is the highest of all kinds of paper in the world. More than 100 million tons are produced annually. It is made in specialized paper machines out of virgin as well as recycled fibers. Linerboard made of virgin pulp is called kraftliner, whereas recycled linerboard is known as testliner.
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A cruise with a stunning view: World's largest passenger ship the Queen Mary 2 sails into New Zealand's eighth wonder of the world A cruise with a stunning view: World's largest passenger ship the Queen Mary 2 sails into New Zealand's eighth wonder of the world The Cunard liner is the largest passenger ship ever built and made its first visit to the fjord today Milford Sound is part of the Fiordland National Park, protected by Unesco as a world heritage site
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- The liner has five layers made of different kinds of materials: 1  The bottom layer next to the earth is made of at least two feet of clay that has been pounded until it is very compact. 2  Next is a layer of strong, flexible, very thick plastic, called high density polyethylene (HDPE).
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- In service. Oasis-class cruise ships Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas are the largest passenger ships ever built by gross tonnage, length overall and passenger capacity. A third ship, Harmony of the Seas entered the fleet May 29, 2016, and a fourth ship is under construction. Queen Mary 2.
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Seawise Giant Seawise Giant. Seawise Giant, later Happy Giant, Jahre Viking, Knock Nevis, Oppama, and finally Mont, was a ULCC supertanker that was the longest ship ever built. It possessed the greatest deadweight tonnage ever recorded.
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HISTORY OF THE CUNARD LINE Posted by: Michael L. Grace May 28, 2010 in Cruise History, cruise reviews, CRUISE SHIP REVIEWS Leave a comment. Social History: History of The Cunard Line. Cunard Line was the only company to continue regular transatlantic ocean crossings by liners after the 1970s. The French Line, Italian Line, the United States Line had gone out of business.