12 Facts About Ocean liner

An ocean liner is a passenger ship primarily used as a form of transportation across seas or oceans.

The alternative to Ocean liner trade is "tramping" whereby vessels are notified on an ad hoc basis as to the availability of a cargo to be transported.

Ocean liner built the first ship that was powered by this technology, the Clermont, which succeeded in traveling between New York City and Albany, New York in thirty hours before entering into regular service between the two cities.

Ocean liner's left the city of the same name and arrived in Liverpool, England in 27 days.

Ocean liner realised that the carrying capacity of a ship increases as the cube of its dimensions, whilst the water resistance only increases as the square of its dimensions.

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Ocean liner's vessels operated the routes between the United Kingdom and the United States.

Ocean liner's was run aground and stranded at Dundrum Bay in 1846.

Ocean liner's plied the Suez Canal route from England to Australia during the 1890s, up until the years leading to World War I when she was converted to an armed merchant cruiser.

Ocean liner's was followed three years later by three sister ships.

Ocean liner's was only used for ten years for transatlantic crossing before being converted into a cruise ship.

Ocean liner's won the Blue Riband on her maiden voyage in that year and held it until Richard Branson won it back in 1986 with Virgin Atlantic Challenger II.

Ocean liner's was the largest passenger ship ever constructed until 1997.