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Four Funnel Liner
A four-funnel liner, also known as a four-stacker, is an ocean liner with four funnels. , launched in 1897, was the first ocean liner to have four funnels and was one of the first of the golden era of ocean liners that became prominent in the 20th century. Among the most well known four-funnels are , sunk on her maiden voyage on , and , torpedoed on , during the First World War. In all, 15 four-funnel liners were produced; '' Great Eastern'' in 1858, and the remainder between 1897 and 1922. Four were sunk during the World Wars, and all others besides ''Titanic'' were scrapped. was the fastest of all four-funnelled liners. The last four-funnelled liner ever built was ; however, two of her funnels were later removed making the the last four-funnel liner in service and the only one to survive service during both World Wars. Description Rise of the four-funnel liner The primary purpose of funnels on steamships was to allow smoke, heat and excess steam to escape from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympic And Titanic
Olympic or Olympics may refer to Sports Competitions * Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 1896 ** Summer Olympic Games ** Winter Olympic Games * Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD * Wenlock Olympian Games, a forerunner of the modern Olympic Games, held since 1850 * Olympic (greyhounds), a competition held annually at Brighton & Hove Greyhound Stadium Clubs and teams * Adelaide Olympic FC, a soccer club from Adelaide, South Australia * Fribourg Olympic, a professional basketball club based in Fribourg, Switzerland * Sydney Olympic FC, an Australian soccer club * Olympic Club (Barbacena), a Brazilian football club based in Barbacena, Minas Gerais state * Olympic Mvolyé, a Cameroonian football club based in Mvolyé * Olympic Club (Egypt), a football and sports club based in Alexandria * Blackburn Olympic F.C., an English football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire * Rushall Olym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS America (1940)
SS ''America'' was an ocean liner and cruise ship American Built Passenger Liners, built in the United States in 1940, for the United States Lines and designed by the noted American naval architect William Francis Gibbs. It carried many names in the 54 years between its construction and its 1994 wreck: Steam Ship, SS ''America'' (carrying this name three different times during its career); troop transport USS ''West Point''; and SS ''Australis'', ''Italis'', ''Noga'', ''Alferdoss'', and ''American Star''. It served most notably in passenger service as ''America'' and the Greek-flagged ''Australis''. It was wrecked as the ''American Star'' at Playa de Garcey on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands on 18 January 1994. The wreck deteriorated and completely collapsed into the sea. As of 2022, it is no longer visible on the ocean surface and has become an artificial reef. Construction (1936–1939) ''America'' was laid down under the first Maritime Commission contract on 22 Augus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Kaiser Wilhelm II
The second SS ''Kaiser Wilhelm II'', named for the German Emperor, was a 19,361- gross register ton passenger ship built at Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). The ship was completed in the spring of 1903. At the time of her launch she was larger by 1,900 tons than any other German ship and was surpassed in the weight of her hull and machinery only by the British liners ''RMS Cedric'' and ''RMS Celtic''. The ship was seized by the U.S. Government during World War I, and subsequently served as a transport ship under the name USS ''Agamemnon''. A famous photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz called ''The Steerage'', as well as descriptions of the conditions of travel in the lowest class, have conflicted with her otherwise glitzy reputation as a high class, high speed trans-Atlantic liner. Design The ''Kaiser Wilhelm II'' was built with a full double-bottom along the hull. She was divided into 26 watertight compartments via 16 transverse bulkheads and one longitudinal bulkhead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS France (1910)
SS ''France'' was a French ocean liner which sailed for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, colloquially known as CGT or the "French Line". She was later nicknamed "Versailles of the Atlantic", a reference to her décor which reflected the famous Palace of Versailles, palace outside Paris. Ordered in 1908, she was introduced into the Transatlantic route in April 1912, just a week after the sinking of , and was the only French liner among the famous four-funnel liners (the "four stackers"). ''France'' quickly became one of the most popular ships in the Atlantic. Serving as a hospital ship during World War I, ''France'' would have a career spanning two decades. Her overall success encouraged CGT to create even larger liners in the future. Background At the turn of the 20th century, British and German liners dominated the North Atlantic passenger route, carrying not only a huge number of immigrants, but catering to the social elite as well. In 1897 the North German Lloyd had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Olympic
RMS ''Olympic'' was a British ocean liner and the lead ship of the White Star Line's trio of liners. ''Olympic'' had a career spanning 24 years from 1911 to 1935, in contrast to her short-lived sister ships, ''Titanic'' and HMHS Britannic, ''Britannic''. This included service as a troopship during the First World War, which gained her the nickname ''Old Reliable''. She returned to civilian service after the war, and served successfully as an ocean liner throughout the 1920s and into the first half of the 1930s, although increased competition, and the slump in trade during the Great Depression after 1930, made her operation increasingly unprofitable. ''Olympic'' was the Timeline of largest passenger ships, largest ocean liner in the world for two periods during 1910–13, interrupted only by the brief tenure of the slightly larger (which had the same dimensions but higher gross register tonnage) before the German went into service in June 1913. ''Olympic'' also held the title ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Mauretania (1906)
RMS ''Mauretania'' was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. She was the world's largest ship until the launch of in 1910. ''Mauretania'' became a favourite among her passengers. She captured the eastbound Blue Riband on her maiden return voyage in December 1907, then claimed the westbound Blue Riband for the fastest transatlantic crossing during her 1909 season, which she held both speed records for 20 years.Maxtone-Graham 1972, pp. 41–43. The ship's name was taken from the ancient Roman province of Mauretania on the northwest African coast, not the modern Mauritania to the south.Maxtone-Graham 1972, p. 24. Similar nomenclature was also employed by ''Mauretania''s running mate , which was named after the Roman province directly north of Mauretania, across the Strait of Gibraltar in Portugal. ''Mauretania'' remained in service until September 1934, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagion began around September and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24 (Black Thursday). It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. Devastating effects were seen in both rich and poor countries with falling personal income, prices, tax revenues, and profits. International trade fell by more than 50%, unemployment in the U.S. rose to 23% and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Deutschland (1900)
SS ''Deutschland'' was a passenger liner built in Szczecin, Stettin and launched in 1900 by the Hamburg America Line of Germany. The rival Norddeutscher Lloyd, North German Lloyd line had launched Germany's first four funnel liner, in 1897, and SS ''Deutschland'' was built by Hamburg America as Germany's second four-funnel liner in order to compete. Although ''SS Deutschland'' was able to capture the Blue Riband from ''Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse'', crossing the Atlantic Ocean in just over five days, she suffered from persistent engine issues, and was withdrawn from transatlantic service in 1910 after just ten years. At this time she was renamed ''Viktoria Luise'' and converted to a dedicated cruise ship. As ''Viktoria Luise'' she saw brief service in World War I. Because of the bad condition of the ship after the World War, it was not seized by the Allies and was for a time the only remaining large steam ship sailing under a German flag. In 1921 she was converted again into an immi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Kronprinz Wilhelm
SS ''Kronprinz Wilhelm'' was a German ocean liner built for Norddeutscher Lloyd, a shipping company now part of Hapag-Lloyd, by the AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland), in 1901. She was named after Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, and was a sister ship of . She had a varied career, starting off as a world-record-holding passenger liner, then becoming an auxiliary warship from 1914–1915 for the Imperial German Navy, sailing as a commerce raider for a year, and then interned in the United States when she ran out of supplies. When the US entered World War I, she was seized and served as a United States Navy troop transport until she was decommissioned and turned over to the United States Shipping Board, where she remained in service until she was scrapped in 1923. German passenger liner (1901–1914) ''Kronprinz Wilhelm'' was launched on 30 March 1901. Her registered length was , her beam was and her depth was . Her tonna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Windsor Castle (1921)
The first RMS ''Windsor Castle'', along with her sister, , was an ocean liner laid down by the Union-Castle Line for service from the United Kingdom to South Africa. During World War 2 the ''Windsor Castle'' was requisitioned as a troopship and on 23 March 1943 was sunk by an aerial torpedo off the coast of Algeria. History Construction and design Originally designed for the Union-Castle Line in 1913, she was ordered from Harland & Wolff but her construction was held up by the First World War. The continuation of the war until late 1918 led Harland & Wolff to subcontract her building to John Brown & Company. ''Windsor Castle'' was not completed until 1922. The two ships were the only four-stacked ocean liners built and design for a route other than the transatlantic crossing. She had a capacity of 234 first, 362 second, and 274 third-class passengers. The liner had two masts and two propellers and could reach a top speed of 18 knots. In her refit she was given a raked bow which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RMS Arundel Castle
RMS ''Arundel Castle'' was a British ocean liner and Royal Mail Ship which entered service in 1921 for the Union-Castle Line. A previous vessel of the same name was built in 1864 by Donald Currie & Co. (a predecessor to Union-Castle) and sold in 1883, whereupon it was renamed ''Chittagong''. Originally laid down as the ''Amroth Castle'' in 1915, building was delayed by the First World War. She was eventually launched on 11 September 1919. She was completed on 8 April 1921 and in 22 April 1921 the ship departed from Southampton on her maiden voyage to Cape Town. During World War 2 she was requisitioned by the Admiralty to serve as a troopship. After the war she resumed passenger service, eventually being scrapped in 1959. History Construction Originally designed for the Union Castle Line in 1913, her keel was laid down at Harland & Wolff shipyard. She should have been completed in 1916, under the name ''Amroth Castle'', but with the advent of World War 1, construction on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMHS Britannic
''Britannic'' () was the third and final vessel of the White Star Line's of steamships and the second White Star ship to bear the name ''Britannic''. She was the youngest sister of the and the and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She was operated as a hospital ship from 1915 until her sinking near the Greek island of Kea, in the Aegean Sea, in November 1916. At the time she was the largest hospital ship in the world. ''Britannic'' was launched just before the start of the First World War. She was designed to be the safest of the three ships with design changes made during construction due to lessons learned from the sinking of the ''Titanic''. She was laid up at her builders, Harland and Wolff, in Belfast for many months before being requisitioned as a hospital ship. In 1915 and 1916 she served between the United Kingdom and the Dardanelles. On the morning of 21 November 1916 she was shaken by an explosion caused by a naval mine of the Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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