Cruises
Some
people may like to go on cruises to the ocean to see the landscapes of various
regions. Some may want to see the coastline of various landscapes and to stop
off at coastal regions. Some may want to see the coast and settlements of various
landscapes and coastlines.
Vacations and Discovery
Cruising by boat is a lifestyle that involves living for extended time on a boat while traveling from place to place for pleasure. Cruising generally refers to trips of a few days or more, and can extend to round the world voyages.
Cruise ships operate mostly on routes that return passengers to their originating port. In contrast, dedicated transport oriented ocean liners do "line voyages" and typically transport passengers from one point to another, rather than on round trips. Some liners also engage in longer trips which may not lead back to the same port for many months.
The "unsinkable" Titanic, which sank on her maiden voyage from Britain to the United States in 1912 with the loss of 1,523 lives; her name has entered the language as an archetypical catastrophe.
In 1914 the Empress of Ireland sank in the Saint Lawrence River with 1,012 lives lost. The Lusitania was lost in 1915 to a German U-Boat during World War I while on passage from the United States to Britain. The worst disasters were the loss of the Cunarder Lancastria in 1940 off Saint-Nazaire to German bombing while attempting to evacuate troops of the British Expeditionary Force from France, with the loss of over 3,000 lives; the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff with over 9,000 lives lost, and the sinking of the Cap Arcona with over 7,000 lives lost in the Baltic Sea in 1945. The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Stockholm in heavy fog in 1956, although equipped with radar.
The Cunard Line's Mauretania and Aquitania were widely considered the finest liners of their generation. In the following decade many people had a similar affection for the Normandie.
Ocean liner include or have included ; SS Abyssinia, SS Abraham Lincoln, MS Acapulco, MS Achille Lauro, MS Admiral Nakhimov, SS Adriatic, MS Agamemnon, MS Akarita, MS Akaroa (1914), MS Akaroa (1959), MS Al Hasa, SS Albert Ballin, MS Albertic, SS Alcantara (1914), RMS Alcantara (1927), MS Alexandr Pushkin, MS Alexandra, SS Alferdoss, SS Alsatian, MS Amazon, SS America (1905), SS America (1940), SS American Pioneer, SS American Star, MS Amerikanis, MS Americana, SS Amerika, SS Andes (1913), SS Andes (1939), SS Andrea Doria, MS Angelina Lauro, MS Annie Johnson, SS Antilles, MS Aorangi, RMS Aquitania, SS Arabic, MS Aragon, MS Aramis, MS Aranda, SS Arandora Star, MS Arawa, SS Arcadia (1888), SS Arcadia, MS Argentina (1929), SS Argentina (1958), renamed Veendam 1971, MS Arkadia, MS Arkona, RMS Arlanza (1912), MS Arlanza (1960), renamed Arawa 1969, SS Arundel Castle, MS Asama Maru, MS Astoria, MS Asturias, SS Athenic, MS Athlone Castle, SS Athos II, MS Atlantic (1927), MS Atlantis (1913), MS Atlantis (1944), MS Atlas, SS l'Atlantique, MS Augustus (1928), MS Augustus (1952), MS Aurora, SS Australis, MS Awani Dream I, MS Axel Johnson (1969), renamed Costa Marina 1990, MS Baloeran, RMS Baltic, SS Batavia, MS Batory, SS Belgic, renamed Belgenland, RMS Berengaria - ex-Imperator, MS Bergensfjord, renamed De Grasse 1971, 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 Castle, MS Brabantia, MS Braemar Castle, MS Braemar, MS Brasil, MS Brazil, SS Bremen (1929), MS Bremen (1939), SS Bretagne, MS Britanis, RMS Britannic (1874), HMHS Britannic, RMS Britannic (1929), MS Brittany, MS Byelorussiya, SS Caledonia (1914), SS Caledonia, SS Calgarian, SS Calgaric, SS California (1907), SS California (1923), SS California (1928), MS Calypso, SS Cambodge, SS Cameronia, RMS Campania, MS Canada Star, SS Canberra, SS Canton, SS Cap Arcona, SS Cap Polonio, SS Cap Trafalgar, MS Capa Casino, MS Cape Town Castle, MS Caribe I, MS Caribia (1927), MS Caribia (1948), SS Carinthia (1925), SS Carinthia (1958), MS Carla C., MS Carla Costa, RMS Carmania (1905), MS Carmania (1954), MS Carnarvon Castle, SS Caronia (1905), RMS Caronia (1948), RMS Carpathia, SS Casserta, SS Cathay, MS Catlin, RMS Cedric, RMS Celtic, SS Ceramic (1913), SS Ceramic (1948), SS Champlain, MS Chichibu Maru, MS Chidambaram, SS Chitral, MS Chritiaan Huygens, MS Chrobry, SS Chusan, MS Chuyo, SS Cincinnati, MS City of Exeter, SS City of New York, MS City of York, SS Cleveland, MS Club I, MS Columbia, SS Columbus (1903), SS Columbus (1924), MS Columbus C., MS Commodore Hotel, SS Comorin, SS Constitution, SS Conte Biancamano, MS Conte Grande, MS Conte Rosso, SS Conte Verde, SS Conte di Savoia, MS Covington, SS Cristoforo Colombo, MS D'artagnan, SS Dakota, MS Danae, MS Daphne, SS De Grasse, MS Delphin, MS Dempo, SS Deutschland (1900), SS Deutschland (1923), MS Dominion Monarch, SS Doric (1923), MS Doric (1964), SS Duchess of Atholl, SS Duchess of Bedford, SS Duchess of Richmond, SS Duchess of York, SS Duilio, MS Dunnottar Castle, MS Dunvegan Castle, MS Durban Castle, RMS Edinburgh Castle, SS Edinburgh Castle, MS Edmund B. Alexander, MS Ellinis, Emerald Seas, MS Empire Clyde, MS Empire Doon, MS Empire Fowey, MS Empire Orwell, MS Empire Waveney, MS Empire Welland, SS Empire Windrush, RMS Empress of Asia (1913), RMS Empress of Australia (1919) ex-Admiral von Tirpitz, ex-Tirpitz, ex-Empress of China, RMS Empress of Australia (1953) ex-de Grasse, RMS Empress of Britain (1906) ante-Montroyal, RMS Empress of Britain (1931), RMS Empress of Britain (1956) ante-Queen Anna Maria, ante-Carnivale, ante-Fiesta Marina, ante-Olympic, ante-Topaz, RMS Empress of Canada (1922), RMS Empress of Canada (1929) ex-Duchess of Richmond, RMS Empress of Canada (1961) ante-Mardi Gras, ante-Olympic, ante-Star of Texas, ante-Lucky Star, ante-Apollo, ante-Apollon, RMS Empress of China (1891), RMS Empress of China (1908) ex-Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, RMS Empress of China (1919) ex-Tirpitz, ante-Empress of Australia, RMS Empress of England (1956), RMS Empress of France (1914) ex-Alsatian, RMS Empress of France ex-Duchess of Bedford, RMS Empress of India (1891) ante-Loyalty, RMS Empress of India (1908) ex-Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, ex-Empress of China, ante-Montlaurier, ante-Montieth, ante-Montnairn, RMS Empress of Ireland (1906), RMS Empress of Japan (1891), RMS Empress of Japan (1930) ante-Empress of Scotland, ante-Hanseatic, RMS Empress of Russia (1913), RMS Empress of Scotland (1906) ex-Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, RMS Empress of Scotland (1930) ex-Empress of Japan, ante-Hanseatic, MS Enrico C., SS Eugenio C., SS Euripides, MS Europa (1923), SS Europa (1930), MS Europa (1953), , Fairsky, TSS Fairstar, SS Federico C., MS Felix Roussel, MS Feodor Dostoevskiy, MS Feodor Shalyapin, MS Festivale, MS Fiesta Marina, MS Filipinas Saudi, SS Flandre, MS Flavia, MS Forfar, SS France (1912), SS France (1961), MS Frances Y. Slanger, SS Franconia (1911), SS Franconia (1923), MS Franconia (1955), SS Free State Mariner, MS Fuji Maru, MS Fulvia, SS Galileo Galilei, MS Galileo, SS General W. P. Richardson, SS George Washington, MS Georges Philippar, MV Georgic, SS Giulio Cesare (1922), MS Giulio Cesare (1951), SS Gneisenau, SS Gothic, RMS Grampian, SS Great Eastern, SS Great Western, MS Great Sea, MS Gripsholm (1925), MS Gripsholm (1957), MS Gripsholm (1965), MS Gruziya, SS Guglielmo Marconi, MS Gunung Djati, SS Hamburg (1926), SS Hamburg (1969), MS Hansa (1900), MS Hansa (1923), MS Hanseatic (1930), MS Hanseatic (1964), MS Hanseatic (1969), SS Harvard, SS Himalaya, MS Hoegh Traveller, SS Homeric (1922), SS Homeric (1931), MS Hual Akarita, MS Hual Traveller, SS Iberia, SS Île de France, SS Imperator (1905), SS Imperator, MS Imperial Bahama Hotel, SS Independence, SS Infante Dom Henrique, MS Italia (1928), MS Italia (1947), SS Italis, MS Ivan Franko, SS Ivernia, MS Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, MS John Ericsson, MS Justicia, SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, 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 Albert, SS Kos'ciuszko, SS Kronprinz Wilhelm, SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, MS Kungsholm (1928), MS Kungsholm (1953), MS Kungsholm (1965), SS L'Atlantique, RMS Laconia (1911), RMS Laconia (1921), MS Laconia (1930), MS Lafayette (1930), MS Lafayette (1935), MS La Guardia, MS La Marseillaise, RMS Lancastria, SS Lapland, SS La Touraine, SS Laurentic, MS Leilani, MS Lejeune, SS Leonardo da Vinci, MS Leonid Brezhnev, MS Leonid Sobinov, SS Leviathan, MS Liberte (1930), SS Liberte (1950), MS Liguria, SS Limburgia, MS Lombardia, MS Lucky Star, SS Lurline, RMS Lusitania, SS Maasdam (1952), SS Magdalena, RMS Majestic, ex-Bismarck, MS Maksim Gorky, SS Maloja, SS Malolo, SS Manchuria, SS Manhattan, MS Marco Polo, MS Mardi Gras, MS Margarita L, MS Marianna 9, MS Marianna Lasti, MS Marianna Lasti, SS Mariposa, MS Marnix van Sint Aldegonde, MS Massilia, SS Matsonia (1926), SS Matsonia (1932), RMS Mauretania (1906), RMS Mauretania (1938), SS Media, MS Mediterranean Island, MS Mediterranean Sea, MS Mediterranean Sky, MS Mediterranean Star, SS Megantic, SS Melita, MS Meloly, MS Mercury, MS Meridian, SS Michelangelo, MS Mikhail Lermontov, MS Millennium, MS Milwaukee, SS Minnedosa, SS Minnekahda, SS Minnesota, SS Minnetonka, SS Minnewaska, MS Mistral, MS Mobil, SS Moldavia, MS Monarch Star, MS Monarch Sun, SS Monarch of Bermuda, SS Mongolia (1903), SS Mongolia (1922), SS Montcalm, SS Montclare, MS Monteith, SS Monterey (1932), MS Monterey (1952) (ex-Free State Mariner), MS Monticello, MS Montlaurier, MS Montnairn, SS Montrose, MS Montroyal, SS Mooltan, MS Mount Vernon (1906), MS Mount Vernon (1933), SS Mulbera, 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), SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1906), SS Nieuw Amsterdam (1938), MS Nippon Maru, SS Nitta Maru, SS Noga, MS Noordam, MS Nordic Empress, MS Nordic Prince, SS Normandie, SS Northern Star, SS Norway see SS France (1961), MS Oceania, RMS Oceanic (1870), RMS Oceanic (1899), Oceanic (unfinished ship), MS Oceanic (1932), SS Oceanic (1965), MS Odessa Sky, SS Ohio (1870), MS Olvia, MS Olympia Countess, SS Olympia, RMS Olympic, MS Olympic (1956), MS Olympic (1961), RMS Orama (1911), RMS Orama (1924), MS Oranje, RMS Orbita, SS Orcades (1937), SS Orcades (1948), SS Orca, RMS Orcoma, SS Orduna, SS Orford, SS Oriana (1959), MS Orient Venus, MS Oriental Carnaval, MS Oriental Empress, MS Oriental Esmeralda, MS Oriental Rio, RMS Orion, SS Ormonde, SS Oronsay (1925), SS Oronsay (1951), SS Orontes, SS Orsova, RMS Orotava, RMS Orvieto, MS Oslofjord (1938), MS Oslofjord (1949), SS Otranto, SS Otway, SS Oxfordshire, MS Pallas Athena, SS Paris, SS Parthia, SS Pasteur (1939), SS Pasteur (1966), MS Patria, MS Patriot, MS Patris, MS Paul Gauguin, SS Pendennis Castle, MS Pennland, SS Pennsylvania (1896), MS Philippines, MS Piemonte, MS Pi?sudski, SS Pittsburgh, SS Polonia, MS Port Melbourne, MS Port Sydney, SS Potsdam, SS President Cleveland, SS President Coolidge, SS President Grant, SS President Hoover, SS President Johnson, SS President Lincoln, SS President Roosevelt, SS President Wilson, MS President, MS Pretoria Castle (1939), SS Pretoria Castle (1948), SS Pretoria, MS Pride of Galveston, MS Pride of Mississippi, MS Princesa Victoria, MS Princess Danae, SS Principe Perfeito, SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, SS Provence, SS Pu?aski, MS Queen Anna Maria, RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, MS Queen Frederica, RMS Queen Mary, RMS Queen Mary 2, SS Queen of Bermuda (1933), MS Queen of Bermuda (1958), SS Raffaello, SS Rajputana, SS Ranchi, MS Rangitane (1929), MS Rangitane (1949), MS Rangitata, MS Rangitiki, MS Rangitoto, MS Rang, SS Ranpura, MS Rasa Sayang, SS Rawalpindi, SS Regina, SS Reina del Mar, MS Reina del Pacifico, SS Reliance, MS Repubblica di Amalfi, MS Repubblica di Genova, MS Repubblica di Pisa, MS Repubblica di Venezia, RMS Republic (1903), MS Republic (1907), MS Resolute, SS Rex, MS Rhapsody (1957), SS Rhodesia Castle, MS Rimutaka, MS Robert Ley, SS Roma, MS Rossia, SS Rotterdam, SS Rotterdam (1908), SS Rotterdam (1959), MS Ruahine, SS Ryndam (1951), 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 Paula, SS Santa Rosa, MS Saturnia, MS Saudi Phili, RMS Saxonia, SS Scharnhorst, SS Scharnhorst, MS Scotstoun, RMS Scythia, SS Shalom, MS Shin Sakura Maru, MS Shin-yo, MS Silver Cloud, MS Sitmar Fairwind, MS Sobieski, SS Southern Cross (1955), MS Southern Cross (1972), MS Southward, MS Sovetsky Sojus, MS Soyuz, MS Spirit of London, MS St. Louis, MS Star of Texas, MS Stardancer, SS Statendam (1917), SS Statendam (1927), SS Statendam (1957), MS Stefan, TSS Stefan Batory, SS Stella Oceanis, SS Stella Solaris, MV Stirling Castle, MS Stockholm (1938), MS Stockholm (1941), SS Stockholm, MS Strassburg, SS Strathaird, SS Strathallan, SS Stratheden, SS Strathmerton, SS Strathmore, SS Strathnaver, MS Switzerland, SS Sylvania, MS Tanjung Pandan, MS Tatsuta Maru, MS Tatuta Maru, MS Teia Maru (Teia Maru), MS Teiko Maru, RMS Teutonic, SS The Emerald, SS Tirpitz renamed SS Empress of Australia 1921, RMS Titanic, MS Titibu Maru, MS Topaz, SS Transvaal Castle, SS Transylvania, MS Traveller, MS Tropicale, MS Troy, SS Tuscania (1914), SS Tyrrhenia, SS Uganda, MS Un-yo, SS United States, MS Uruguay, MS Vasco Da Gama, SS Vaterland (1914), SS Vaterland (1940), SS Veendam (1923), MS Veendam (1958), MS Venezuela, SS Vera Cruz, MS Vera, SS Viceroy of India, MS Victoria (1936), MS Victoria (1966), MS Victoria Luise, MS Viking Serenade, MS Vineta, SS Virginia, RMS Virginian, SS Volendam (1922), MS Volendam (1958), MS Vulcania, MS Wakefield, MS Warwick Castle (1930), MS Warwick Castle (1939), SS Washington, MS Waterman, MS West Point, MS Westernland, MS Westward, KdF Wilhelm Gustloff, MS Willem Ruys, MS Winchester Castle, SS Windhuk, SS Windsor Castle (1922), SS Windsor Castle (1960), MS Wolfe, SS Yale, SS Yawata Maru, MS Yuridolgoruki
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