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Queen Elizabeth 2 The SS Normandie ocean liner, with smoke rising from its funnels, sails past a crowd of people gathered on a dock in a busy harbor. Mauretania Aerial view of the RMS Queen Mary ocean liner docked at Long Beach, California, surrounded by a breakwater with the city and harbor in the background. cruise ship
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Nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Carl vinson plows through the Indian ocean as aircraft on its flight deck are prepared for flight operations 3/15/05.
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View of the ROV Hercules investigating the stern of Titanic during a 2004 expedition deployed from the NOAA ship, the Ronald H. Brown. (disasters, ships)
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Add new Web site: University of Glasgow - The Frantic Atlantic: Ocean Liners in the Interwar Literary Imagination (PDF). Oct 27, 2025
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Conversations - How the ocean liner changed the world. Jul 21, 2025
Add new Web site: NPR - The fastest ocean liner to cross the Atlantic faces eviction from a pier. Jun 19, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC Culture - How ocean liners shaped modern design. Dec 01, 2023
Added cross-references. Apr 07, 2023
Add new Web site: Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History - Ocean Crossings. Oct 17, 2016
Media added. Nov 24, 2010
Article revised. Mar 16, 2001
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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