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unusual facts about ocean liner



Crossroads of the World

Located on Sunset Boulevard and Las Palmas in Los Angeles, the mall features a central building designed to resemble an ocean liner surrounded by a small village of cottage-style bungalows.

HMS Princess Irene

HMS Princess Irene was a 5,394 GRT ocean liner which was built in 1914 by William Denny and Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton, Scotland for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Imperator-class ocean liner

The Imperator class ocean liners were a series of three ocean liners designed for the Hamburg America Line, commonly known as HAPAG.

In Nacht und Eis

The film was produced by Continental Film Studios of Berlin, and while most of its footage was shot in studios and in a lot behind the studio building, some footage was shot in Hamburg and some was possibly done aboard the German ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria, then docked at Hamburg.

Loomis Dean

In 1956, while sailing to Paris to take a job in the magazine's bureau there, Dean photographed the sinking and the rescue of passengers from the ocean liner SS Andrea Doria.

Nakheel Properties

The company also owned the retired ocean liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, which it acquired for $100 million and planned to convert into a luxury hotel, that was to have been moored at the Palm Jumeirah.

Seven Waves Away

The luxury liner SS Crescent Star sinks in seven minutes after striking a rogue mine in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, taking with her nearly all of the 1156 people on board.

SS Zealandic

SS Zealandic was an ocean liner launched for the White Star Line in 1911, renamed Mamillius after 1926, Mamari III in 1936 and wrecked and sunk in 1941.


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Alzek Misheff

He is well known in the international art world for the project Swimming Across The Atlantic, which was executed in the swimming pool of the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 in 1982 while traveling on the route between London and New York.

C. Ledyard Blair

At the outbreak of the war in 1914, Blair was on the SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie, a North German Lloyd ocean liner, sailing from New York City to Plymouth, England.

Compressed Hare

However, neither Bugs nor Wile E. expects the magnet to attract everything else with metal properties (including, but not limited to: barbed wire, street lamps, cars, bulldozers, buses, an ocean liner, the Eiffel Tower, satellites, and, finally, a Mercury rocket trying to blast off into space) their way.

Dagmar Nordstrom

The duo were on the maiden around the world voyage of the combined ocean liner/cruise ship MS Sagafjord.

Development Arrested

Tobias catches up with Michael and tells him he has booked the Queen Mary, thinking this was a chain of nightclubs and not a luxury ocean liner permanently docked south of Los Angeles in Long Beach.

Dracula the Un-dead

Unknown to him, boxes labelled as property of Vladimir Basarab are also loaded on board; the ocean liner is later revealed to be the RMS Titanic.

Fairwind

RMS Sylvania, an ocean liner which sailed under the name SS Fairwind between 1968 and 1988

Frank Braynard

Frank is the author of 34 books including the six-volume encyclopedic work on the ocean liner, SS Leviathan

Gerald Guterman

In September 1986, Guterman drew media attention when he chartered the famed ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 along with a crew of over 1,000, for his 13yr old son's Bar Mitzvah party.

Great Phenol Plot

Although the United States remained officially neutral until April 1917, it was increasingly throwing its support to the Allies through trade, especially after the May 1915 sinking of the British ocean liner Lusitania (which conveyed American passengers as well as munitions) by a German U-boat.

Herbert Lieberman

Liberman's mother was an orphan who fled Romania, and came over to America in an ocean liner called the Lusitania.

Mike Pender's Searchers

In 1994 Mike Pender's Searchers were the very first 1960s band to be invited to play on board the QE2 as part of the ocean liner's 25th anniversary celebrations.

Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov

In the Soviet-era film comedy The Diamond Arm (Brilliantovaya Ruka), the male lead takes a vacation abroad (a very rare occurrence under Communist rule) on an ocean liner named in honor of Svetlov.

Moody Church

Returning from Scotland with his daughter and niece, Harper booked passage on the White Star Line’s new ocean liner Titanic.

Norman Batten

He and fellow driver Earl Devore were lost at sea while sailing aboard the ocean liner SS Vestris.

Philip Plisson

He has produced numerous books including collections of photographs featuring Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and the ocean liner Queen Mary 2.

Rostron

Arthur Rostron (1869-1940), master of the ocean liner RMS Carpathia

Saharet

In January 1916 he was removed from the ocean liner SS Rotterdam, and charged by English authorities with having a trunk containing German war literature.

SS Raffaello

In 1966 the Raffaello hosted two unusual passengers for an ocean liner: she carried two Spider 1600 cars bound for exhibition in the United States.

The New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra

Taking its name from the SS Leviathan, a transatlantic ocean liner with a well regarded dance band at the start of the 1920s, the orchestra was founded in 1972.

USAHS Acadia

Built in 1932 by Newport News Shipbuilding as a civilian passenger/cargo ocean liner for the Eastern Steamship Lines, the vessel was in US coastal and Caribbean service prior to its acquisition by the US Maritime Administration in 1941.

Wells Coates

The building was compared to the exterior of an ocean liner by the novelist Agatha Christie, who lived there for a time, so clean and striking was the design.