Apart from their counterparts, the ocean liners, cruise ships too have seen their share of disasters. However, since the cruise ship industry and cruises began post war, there haven’t been any wartime cruise ship disasters that many of the ocean liners were fated to. The disasters that have struck cruise ships have mostly been either a result of human error or the act of nature. Some of the most destructive [...]
Ocean Liners experienced their golden age during the period between the start of the 19th century and the onset of World War II. However, it was also this period combined with the period of the World War II that saw some of the worst ocean liner disasters of history right from the famous epic disaster of the Titanic to the most disastrous episode in ocean liner history of the Wilhelm [...]
Even a blonde in a swimming costume (without it, I don’t know) won’t look as hot or as spectacular as Queen Victoria. At least that’s what I experienced when I was aboard on Queen Victoria. This cruise ship named after Queen Victoria is a classic Cunarder with amazing grandeur, stunning speed and lavish luxury. Her basic design is similar to other Vista-class passenger vessels whereas at 90,000 gross tons,
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Ocean liners were replaced by the airplanes of jet-age and soon became defunct as a means of travel; especially as a means of crossing the Atlantic. But the allure of the great seas was not completely lost and the ocean liners were quickly replaced by cruise ships where the experience of the journey and not the travel became the main essence of boarding these ships. One of the most important
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Fast, furious, fearless and fabulous. There are many more adjectives that I can associate with speed and beauty. I’ll describe the Transatlantic Ocean Liners as the Airbus A320 of olden days to some extent, but the ocean liners were much more exhilarating and much more exquisite. The transatlantic ocean liners changed the face of travelling and until the 1960s they were the only means
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