During the chaos of the Second World War, merchant ships and passenger liners faced constant danger from enemy submarines. One night in the Indian Ocean, a passenger ship carrying hundreds of people ...

This article traces the shift from historic ocean liners to modern cruise ships focused on entertainment. It discusses maritime law issues, like injury liability on ships and extending admiralty ...

Chris Corsentino was four years old when he sailed from New York to Germany, for his dad’s army assignment, aboard the SS United States, in 1959. "I remember being in the playroom with my brother.

Tugboats guide the SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America, underneath the Walt Whitman bridge near Gloucester City, N.J., on Feb. 19, 2025. ‘Big U’, which once ferried ...

SS Bremen, the ocean liner launched in 1928, was one of the most beautiful passenger ships of the golden age of liners. She was a product of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived democratic society ...

Since their development in the 1850s, ocean liners have been far more than simply passenger ships - they were also the conduit for enormous technological, social and global cultural change. This ...