Ocean liners Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another
About Ocean liners
FromMagellen's initial circumnavigationof the globe (1519–1521) to the mid-1800s, seafaring was powered by the winds and was a slow, arduous and sometimes risky means of travel. A trans-Atlantic crossing routinely took two months; arrival times were unpredictable and very much at the mercy of the wind and waves. The 1837 entry of the steamshipSS Great Westernin trans-Atlantic service cut this to 15 days. Cunard Line’sRMS Britanniaprovided scheduled passenger and cargo service fromLiverpooltoBostonin 1840; by 1847 iron-hulled vessels with propellers displaced paddlewheelers, improving the vessels' efficiency. White Star Line’sRMS Oceanic(1870) offered large portholes, electricity and running water in its first-class cabins; from 1880 ocean-going liners increased in size to meet the needs of
Ocean liners Travel Guide Sections
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