28 Facts About Ocean liners

Ocean liners are usually strongly built with a high freeboard to withstand rough seas and adverse conditions encountered in the open ocean.

Technological innovations such as the steam engine and steel hull allowed larger and faster Ocean liners to be built, giving rise to a competition between world powers of the time, especially between the United Kingdom and the German Empire.

Once the dominant form of travel between continents, ocean liners were rendered largely obsolete by the emergence of long-distance aircraft after World War II.

Ocean liners were the primary mode of intercontinental travel for over a century, from the mid-19th century until they began to be supplanted by airliners in the 1950s.

Busiest route for Ocean liners was on the North Atlantic with ships travelling between Europe and North America.

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Certain characteristics of older ocean liners made them unsuitable for cruising, such as high fuel consumption, deep draught preventing them from entering shallow ports, and cabins designed to maximize passenger numbers rather than comfort.

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

Ocean liners 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.

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

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

The size of ocean liners increased from 1880 to meet the needs of immigration to the United States and Australia.

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

Ocean liners's was the first of the fourteen ocean liners with four funnels that have emerged in maritime history.

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

Losses of the Ocean liners owned by the Allied Powers were compensated by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.

Ocean liners'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.

In 1982, during the Falklands War, three active or former Ocean liners were requisitioned for war service by the British Government.

Five ocean liners that were made before the Second World War survive today as they have been partially or fully preserved as museums and hotels.

The first Ocean liners were small and overcrowded, leading to unsanitary conditions on board.

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

South Atlantic was the route frequented by liners bound for South America, Africa, and sometimes Oceania.

Similarly, Italian liners crossed the Mediterranean Sea before entering the North Atlantic Ocean.

Construction of some ocean liners was a result of nationalism.

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Some ocean liners are known today because of their sinking with great loss of lives.

Ocean liners have a strong impact on popular culture, whether during their golden age or afterwards.

Ocean liners were often a setting of a love story in films, such as the 1939's Love Affair Liners were used as a setting of disaster films.