SS Great Britain was also the world’s first metal ship which made wooden ships obsolete overnight. She was also the first ship to be propeller driven. All that came after her apart from those around now have sunk or been scrapped. A great testament to its designer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
I find ships that were built prior to 1970 had identity, these ships were created with panache and class. One can see a glimpse of them in older movies, which might explain part of there enduring appeal. Today's vessel seemed to be floating cities in comparison.
@@cadicorniche Building of square and overcrowded so-called cruise ships should have been STRICTLY FORBIDDEN by law. Not only more ugly than I am (this being art in itself!) they are also simply dangerous just in case of emergency: too much people to 'handle' properly, too great a risk. Unsinkable ships ain't!
A few weeks ago I went and stopped a night on SS Rotterdam, as well as doing the full tour, including the engine rooms. Was great to see how well preserved she is, especially the machinery spaces below decks, and the bridge, radio room and crew cabins. Also they still have some of the original crew doing the tours. Also amazing to have such a piece of history practically on my doorstep (compared to the likes of Queen Mary or QE2).
@@ChrisCooper312 It is still a liner of the company, that managed to operate their ships a Century long; the Dutch know, how to run a ship no matter on sea or in port. A big piece of good work indeed. ♍
That’s what I thought too when I first came up with this video idea. But there was quite a few liners i’ve never heard of that still existed. I found it fascinating😂
I used to think that too. But when I came to Rotterdam last summer and saw that huge liner docked in the distance, I couldn't believe it. I didn't even know she existed !
I've been on 65 cruises & two of them (I believe) were on two of these ships! In the mid-90's, the SS Rotterdam was bought by a new company & renamed the SS Rembrant! I sailed on it in 1997 on a very inexpensive 1 wk. Mediterranean cruise & it clarified the difference between cruise ships & ocean liners! The last was a 2 wk. Med. cruise on the QE2 in 2003, which still looked immaculately clean & new, even after 34 years!
I too did a Mediterranean cruise on SS Rembrandt while it was being operated by Premier Cruises. Would have been around the same time as yourself. Lovely traditional ship.
My family and I returned from a European tour on the QE2. We boarded in Cherbourg, France (the route originated in Southampton, England). Trip took about five days and we enjoyed it immensely - both relaxing and with plenty of activities when in the mood. Service all around was terrific - likewise the food and plenty of it. The bonus was that on one of the days of cruising we passed the SS United States going in the opposite direction - how cool was that? While I have always enjoyed flying I certainly wouldn't mind another overseas ocean voyage God willing. I have been on Caribbean cruises and while also fun do not have the same allure as the great ocean liners. Great video - glad to see so many of those grand ships are still in existence and as links to a past history that can never be duplicated.
@@barnum4244 One has always to 'look at hands' of a smartphone. The latter - just a silly piece of hardware - 'imagines' being itself 'intelligent' with a corrector built in its writing program. Unasked for, the screwball 'edits' what was just written, replacing e.g. proper local names from the past with current ones, completely out of place! I myself hate this, being, by thunder, an educated and literate man of ca. seventy. On the other hand it is always good to take a look on a comment and to rectify it before sending. 😊♍
@@tyler93539 You missed the word "civilized". I suppose you know that flying over the ocean sucks big time compared to crossing it by ship - mind you, an ocean liner.
Very instructive and finely made video. I can add, that one of the ships mentioned, the QE2, is ELEVEN YEARS YOUNGER than I am! I was born on Sep. 20th, 1956, and 'Queen Betty' was launched on Sep. 20th, 1967.😊
interesting that so many of the less famous ones managed to survive. guess the bigger ones would have been too expensive to maintain for it to be worth to save them in most instances.
The Queen Mary in Long Beach has millions of dollars being poured into it. The new finishes are authentic to when it was first launched. It’ll be stunning.
Well I know it is not a Oceanliner, but i think she should have been mentioned next to the ss Savannah. Called the Cap San Diego, built in Hamburg as a Refrigerated Ship in 1961 for the Route to South America. However it could also transport paying Passenger to and from South America in comfortable Cabins. Even a pool was included for them. For her Beauty she was called the swan of the Ocean. Later she returned as a museum to Hamburg and is even today operational.
The Great Britain was one of 3 ships designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the man regarded as the greatest engineer in history. It was one of, if not the, first screw propeller and metal hulled ships, each a major milestone in shipbuilding.
As of September 7, 2024, the SS United States might soon end up as an artificial reef. While it’s a more noble end than ending up scrapped in a foreign land, I still hope that the ship can be preserved for future generations.
I never knew the Brazil-maru was still out there! I live fairly close to the Hikawa-maru and wasn't expecting to see her here, but I was glad to see her included.
Also M.S Birjer jarl (former S.s. Baltic star) operated as a charter yacht after the SOLAS expired, and is now being refirbished and is now Renamed Baltic star. M.S Lofoten (1963) originally named Ragnavald Jarl and has been renamed back to that name as a charter vessel and has the longest running engine of any passenger liner ever built totaling over 35 years of constant operation. M/S Finnmarken (now a beached museum ship on stilts. (1962) Gamle Skogoy (1948) completely Sank at it's mooring up to her funnel due to a leaky propeller shaft but is now being restored, all wooden interiors had to be remade, she's about the size of the SS. Nomadic.
@@demonorca9539 Yes, it is regrettable. The interest in Titanic would have made these two ships, if they had been preserved, terrific tourist attractions as you say.
The SS Great Britain is actually in Bristol, towed from the Falkland islands back to it's homeland to be rebuilt as a museum just down the road from my town. When the Mulus III towed it back, it was beyond refloatable, so it lays in an air sealed dock which you can pass under to see the propellers and rudder. Along with Great Britain, there are also plans to rebuild a section of the SS Great Western for educational purposes right beside the ship.
We need to bring ocean liners back, cruise ships are a waste (you can literally do everything a cruise ship offers at a hotel resort without the disease and without being hated by island residents) for planes not everyone can fly in one and stitting in a cramped seat around strangers isn't my ideal method of travel. And lastly it sucked the Olympic wasn't preserved, now the only way to see a Olympic class ship mostly intact is dive to the Britannic.
While ocean linear would be interesting in the modern day the same reason they became unused in the 70s and 80s means that their use would be unprofitable, no one besides ship enthusiasts would sit on a ship for around 4-5 days when they could rather take a 7 hour flight over the Atlantic instead
@@thefancydoge8668 Alright, lets take SS United States, fastest ocean Liner ever, took 3 days and 10 hours to cross the Atlantic. Very fast when it comes to ships the fastest pane that served passengers, Concord took 3 hours to cross the Atlantic while both are no longer in service it serves as a massive difference when it comes to speed and why planes took over travel of the ocean liners of old
@Ace_Star_543 did you even read my reply? I said it would be no different than choosing to ride a coach bus, which takes a couple of *days* on land compared to flying. Not everyone wants to ride a cramped tin can in the sky or literally can't get on an airplane due to health complications. An ocean liner would be a nice alternative and people do want to ride them, the queen mary 2 is always fully booked so there is a market still.
@@thefancydoge8668 Yeah I read your reply, no its not really the same distance wise, but ignoring that you bring up a fair point not everyone can or wants to ride in a plane and that's fair, but just as many people wouldn't want to get on a transatlantic voyage for the same reasons. Then there is the issue of cost, a flight from JFK airport too SOU airport is $457 for a one way trip and $781 for a two way trip according to Expida while according to the Cunard it cost $780 per person, flights are simply more cheaper, faster and cheaper for the company to operate then ocean liners another reason why they fell out of favor for the public
I still remember when I was a child and well internet access wasnt a huge thing, I absolutely loved ocean liners but thought that only Queen Mary was alive, I would never had guess that I would have the opportunity to not only met her years later, but to learn that more ocean liners are still around us
Good news as there is one more liner not mentioned still around, and seaworthy. -The MS Cap San Diego which is a hotel and museum in Hamburg, but also still sails several times a year.
@@nboceanlinerhistory I get that is what the majority of her purpose was, but she did run a regular route from Hamburg to South America and had cabins for 12 passengers, lounges and even a swimming pool for them.
It’s wo sad SS Great Eastern has not been preserved, what a magnificent piece of engineering that was halfway of the 19th century. Over 200m long, by far the largest ship that time.
After being broken up on the Mersey, one of her masts was recovered and still stands as a flagpole at the Kop end of Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium. A geophysical survey of the breaker’s site on the river suggests some of her hull might still be buried in the mud.
"magnificent" and Great Eastern in the same sentence isn't something I have seen before, though I agree that it is underrated. People hate it, but it shows that Brunel was ahead of his time.
Thank you for this. Such a shame that so many iconic ships were not saved. And MS Stockholm's/MV Astoria's fate is hanging in the balance right now. I hope she is saved.
0:55 Sadly, the SS United States going to come to an end. I live in Philly and love to drive by it (I love ships) and it’s so cool every time I even saw it up close! But, people bought it, and later this year it’s going to become a home for fish in the sea 😔 RIP to the SS United States ❤
In addition to New York City, Philadelphia, or Miami ports where the SS United States could be preserved include Newport News, Boston, or Portland Maine).
Yeah, considering how the QE performed while she was briefly a museum ship in the Everglades in the 1960s and how much of a terrible state the SS United States is, I doubt Miami would be a suitable port.
My apologies, I can give you credit in the description. It was just extremely difficult to find relatively recent photos of the Brazil Maru. I found your images on a website but it didn’t tell me who took them.
The Olympic would be one of the liners preserved as a hotel ship, making a total of 16, but the French bureaucracy of the 1930s did not allow it, a shame it would have been a dream to see the sister of the Titanic and Britanic in person 😢.
I have seen the SSUS on a few occasions up close. It’s so sad to see her current state of deterioration. There have been many plans to preserve her as a museum or hotel or casino, move her to New York. The reality is that she costs a fortune to keep her where she is and I’m afraid she’ll be sold for scrap.
Strange, just saw Astoria in the Waalhaven but if you look her up in any shipfinder she is somewhere around Helgoland, I suppose someone is using her (old) AIS code ?
Still a few more M.s Bore (ex SS Borea) (1962), M.s Nordstjernen (1956) (operational as a national monument/charter ship) M/S Sunnhordland (1943) (converted froma PCE corvette after serving in WWII) (operatoonal) Aurora/Wappen Von hamburg/Faithful (1949) S.S. Keewaten (1907) M.S. Rogaland (1929) (operational and was the hospital ship in the film dunkirk) M.S Cap San Diego (operational) M.s Sandnes (1950) (The only green hulled preserved liner now operated as a museum and training ship).
I know the description says "intact", but as far as existence goes, RMS Titanic, HMHS Britannic, RMS Lusitania or Andrea Doria still exist too. Yes, as wrecks on the sea floor, but they exist and are even accessible. Shps that never sunk like RMS Olympic or RMS Mauretania don't exist anymore because they were scrapped and completely obliterated.
Nice video- "Canon in D" works quite well with the subject matter. Rotterdam is an excellent example of how an ocean liner can be preserved. She's a beautiful ship, and I usually don't say that about ships with aft funnels! Queen Mary is just a pleasant 30 minute drive up Pacific Coast Highway from my hometown. My dad was one of many who went out aboard small craft to greet her when she arrived in Long Beach in 1967. He was awestruck. I wish he'd brought me, but 3-year olds and boats don't always mix... Big U. America's Superliner. The fastest liner ever built, with nearly 250,000 shaft horsepower. Only nuclear supercarriers have equalled or surpassed that kind of sheer might. Magnificent even streaked with rust and in faded livery, but appearances can be deceptive; she is structurally quite sound. If I were a multi- billionaire, SS United States would be completely restored to full operationing condition as a functional museum, with her interior spaces rebuilt, sans asbestos. I wouldn't try to put her back into regular transatlantic service, but she would be far from static. Shorter excursions, 40-knot thrill rides...and her speed and size would be put to good use delivering personell and supplies for disaster relief when needed. She would, of course, be maintained in absolutely impeccable, ship-shape condition. Are there any billionaires out there with the guts, vision, and heart to do something like this..?
MV Astoria AKA The Stockholm is currently on the list to apparently be “scrapped” I hope it doesn’t happen. The SS United States is a sad case of false hope falling through every single time it was brought up.
Bro I’ve been on a ship from 1912 really cool int in Ireland Belfast I live there and I also saw where titanic was launched and everything like that.and even recognise some old photos of Belfast
I remember the Queen Mary,Queen Elizabeth 1 & 2,SS United States,The Northern Star,The Southern Cross,and the Union Castle Liners.If I am correct they all came into Southampton.
Very nice selection of illustrations, great topic and good choice of music. One glaring error. SS Great Britain is preserved in her original building dock in BRISTOL, not Lisbon. There is a preserved ‘liner’ in Lisbon (strictly at Alameda on the south side of the Tejo.) This is the fragata Dom Fernando ll e Gloria, a pure sailing ship, armed and rigged as a frigate but used to carry Portuguese colonial officials and their families to their overseas posts. She was laid down in the same year as Great Britain and makes an interesting, if stark, comparison.
There’s a plan to move the SS United States to a dock in manhattan where it wouldive left out of to be preserved as a hotel but it’s gonna be very expensive and she was recently evicted from Philadelphia and if she isn’t moved by September she will either be scrapped or sunk
That rouge wave actually hit Queen Mary on the side. It happened during WW2 while carrying over 10,000 troops. The ship rolled over 50 degrees, but she stayed stable enough to not capsize. Had she rolled a few degrees more, it would’ve been the worst disaster at sea in history. The even inspired a movie called “Poseidon” in 1972 and was considering the wave that changed science. Waves of such proportion were deemed mythical at the time.
I suppose you mean original purpose-built ocean liners, because the majority of modern cruise ships are more than capable of travelling transoceanic routes.
Indeed, that’s what I meant. I believe the last true purpose-built ocean liners ever constructed were the Italian liners SS Michelangelo and Raffaello in the mid 1960’s. RMS Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth were built after those Italian liners, but they had a dual purpose design to also serve as fully functioning cruise ships.
Can Wappen Von Hamburg (aka Aurora) be considered an ocean liner? She is a cruise ship but I saw in the news in a different country she is an “ocean liner waiting to be restored”.
It's pretty sad that their is only one ocean liner left in the world. They were beautiful ships its really sad that they are now museums or tourist attractions.
i just wish ocean liners weren’t phased out . i would’ve loved to have been born in their heyday and been able to ride on one . can’t afford to ride on the queen mary 2 unfortunately .
i once sailed on the funchal for 4 weeks i stayed on as one of the engines was down and insurance would only let it sail if i stayed on the ship i was there to repair the engine it had 2 so sailed on one it had about 400 swedish passengers each cruise and did not want to cancel big payers then it was about 1978 i had enough by then and the ship went to lisbon for the repair we done 4 trips up to the arctic circle
The Old and good Reliable saved the face of White Star after the loss of the Titanic. Not much known is the fact, that Old Reliable Olympic appears in Sir ACD his 'Danger!' as one of the ships sunk 😅 by Captain Sirius. Actually she herself rammed and sank a German U-Boat in May of 1918. Was not only reliable but could also bite. ♍
Happy Birthday No. 534! You are now NINETY years old. The 26th of Sep. 1934 was a Wednesday. ♍ 'May shipwreck or collision, fog or fire, rock, shoal and other evils of the sea be kept from you!' - and they HAD BEEN kept away.👍
I knew, about the Queens, United States, Rotterdam, and Savanna (even though technical shes a combination liner, buts thats being really nitpicky), but I no idea that others existed. Im hoing to have to update my bucket list.
Here’s some key differences. An ocean liner is designed to get you from point A to point B as fast as possible. A cruise ship is simply a floating structure full of entertainment. They are in no rush to get anywhere. Cruise Ships also have various ports of call, where passengers may go on tours known as "shore excursions”. Because of this, Ocean Liners and Cruise ships are built quite differently. Ocean Liners are built to withstand the rough seas, which means they’ll have stronger hulls than Cruise Ships. The reason ocean liners are nearly extinct today is because Airplanes replaced the role of Ocean Liners.
What about the TSS Duke of Lancaster ? former railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979, and is beached near Mostyn Docks in North Wales
She was designed to operate as both a passenger ferry (primarily on the Heysham to Belfast route) and as a cruise ship. Therefore the Duke of Lancaster wouldn’t be included on this list.
@@TonyRadcliffeOh yeah don’t worry. It’s good that people bring up old ships that still exist today. Who know’s, I may have missed a couple true ocean liners out there.
There’s probably about 500ish liners, but definitely not over 1000. Even taking into account obscure liners from the 1800’s, it just doesn’t add up to over 1000.
Yeah I that was on accident. I must have had the MV Funchal in mind when making the section for SS Great Britain and I somehow overlooked that mistake.
Hello everyone! I’d like to point out that the SS Great Britain is actually located in Bristol, and not in Lisbon. Sorry for the confusion😅
Can you please tell me where queen Mary 2 is so I can take a ride on her plz!!!!?
@geographyRyan_YT That is the original Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA and she is a museum ship and definitely no longer operstional.
I knew that, because I recently watched a video by Steve Marsh in which he visits the SS Great Britain in Bristol.
@@kennethhanks6712 Woops, misread their comment
SS Great Britain was also the world’s first metal ship which made wooden ships obsolete overnight. She was also the first ship to be propeller driven. All that came after her apart from those around now have sunk or been scrapped. A great testament to its designer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
A wonderful video. It’s so nice to see ships that have retained their elegance - as opposed to the gigantic square overcrowded things afloat today.
Today passenger ships look like livestock carriers.
I find ships that were built prior to 1970 had identity, these ships were created with panache and class. One can see a glimpse of them in older movies, which might explain part of there enduring appeal. Today's vessel seemed to be floating cities in comparison.
Like the QUEEN MARY 2.
@@cadicorniche Building of square and overcrowded so-called cruise ships should have been STRICTLY FORBIDDEN by law. Not only more ugly than I am (this being art in itself!) they are also simply dangerous just in case of emergency: too much people to 'handle' properly, too great a risk. Unsinkable ships ain't!
A few weeks ago I went and stopped a night on SS Rotterdam, as well as doing the full tour, including the engine rooms. Was great to see how well preserved she is, especially the machinery spaces below decks, and the bridge, radio room and crew cabins. Also they still have some of the original crew doing the tours. Also amazing to have such a piece of history practically on my doorstep (compared to the likes of Queen Mary or QE2).
I travelled on her in the 90s when she was the SS Rembrandt and operated by Premier Cruises.
I'm only about 60 miles from the Queen Mary. All the work that has been done over the last few years really shows..she is looking really nice!
@@ChrisCooper312 It is still a liner of the company, that managed to operate their ships a Century long; the Dutch know, how to run a ship no matter on sea or in port. A big piece of good work indeed. ♍
A lot more Ocean Liners than I thought. For a while, I thought that Queen Mary, SS United States, QE 2, and Queen Mary 2 were the only ones left.
That’s what I thought too when I first came up with this video idea. But there was quite a few liners i’ve never heard of that still existed. I found it fascinating😂
I used to think that too. But when I came to Rotterdam last summer and saw that huge liner docked in the distance, I couldn't believe it. I didn't even know she existed !
If you ever have the chance, check out the Le Lydia Live, SS Duke of Lancaster, or SS Nomadic.
But, by today's standards, could we really count some of these ships as Ocean Liners?
I don’t think the SS nomadic is an ocean liner.
I've been on 65 cruises & two of them (I believe) were on two of these ships! In the mid-90's, the SS Rotterdam
was bought by a new company & renamed the SS Rembrant! I sailed on it in 1997 on a very inexpensive 1 wk.
Mediterranean cruise & it clarified the difference between cruise ships & ocean liners! The last was a 2 wk.
Med. cruise on the QE2 in 2003, which still looked immaculately clean & new, even after 34 years!
I too did a Mediterranean cruise on SS Rembrandt while it was being operated by Premier Cruises. Would have been around the same time as yourself. Lovely traditional ship.
My family and I returned from a European tour on the QE2. We boarded in Cherbourg, France (the route originated in Southampton, England). Trip took about five days and we enjoyed it immensely - both relaxing and with plenty of activities when in the mood. Service all around was terrific - likewise the food and plenty of it. The bonus was that on one of the days of cruising we passed the SS United States going in the opposite direction - how cool was that? While I have always enjoyed flying I certainly wouldn't mind another overseas ocean voyage God willing. I have been on Caribbean cruises and while also fun do not have the same allure as the great ocean liners. Great video - glad to see so many of those grand ships are still in existence and as links to a past history that can never be duplicated.
I guess it's a typo, but SS Great Britain is in Bristol, not Lisbon. Well worth a visit.
@@barnum4244 One has always to 'look at hands' of a smartphone. The latter - just a silly piece of hardware - 'imagines' being itself 'intelligent' with a corrector built in its writing program. Unasked for, the screwball 'edits' what was just written, replacing e.g. proper local names from the past with current ones, completely out of place! I myself hate this, being, by thunder, an educated and literate man of ca. seventy. On the other hand it is always good to take a look on a comment and to rectify it before sending. 😊♍
Bring back Ocean Liners as a civilised way to cross oceans, cargo passenger ships are also a rare thing today.
have you heard of air planes?
@@zeyastudios you dont cross the ocean in a plane??? the ocean just disappears when you fly???
@@tyler93539 You missed the word "civilized". I suppose you know that flying over the ocean sucks big time compared to crossing it by ship - mind you, an ocean liner.
@@legioner9 I'd say first class is civilized and its quick
Their slow so and also people have caught up with technology like planes and cars. Even trains are faster
Very instructive and finely made video. I can add, that one of the ships mentioned, the QE2, is ELEVEN YEARS YOUNGER than I am! I was born on Sep. 20th, 1956, and 'Queen Betty' was launched on Sep. 20th, 1967.😊
lol, this video is great! i only thought there were 4, but now i know theres 15! thanks for making this :D
interesting that so many of the less famous ones managed to survive. guess the bigger ones would have been too expensive to maintain for it to be worth to save them in most instances.
The Queen Mary in Long Beach has millions of dollars being poured into it. The new finishes are authentic to when it was first launched. It’ll be stunning.
As a kinda ship nerd I can confirm the Queen Mary still exists today.
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everyone knows that lmfao
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the Titanic still exists today
Well I know it is not a Oceanliner, but i think she should have been mentioned next to the ss Savannah. Called the Cap San Diego, built in Hamburg as a Refrigerated Ship in 1961 for the Route to South America. However it could also transport paying Passenger to and from South America in comfortable Cabins. Even a pool was included for them. For her Beauty she was called the swan of the Ocean. Later she returned as a museum to Hamburg and is even today operational.
I remember seeing her when I was in Hamburg, very beautifull ship indeed
Good to know, - how long has she been in Hamburg? I was in Hamburg in 1985 - was she there then? If so would have visited.
@@muzluv33 No, she only came to Germany in 1986 and is since 1989 in Hamburg. The ship is not to miss, in front of the famous elbphilharmonie.
Travelling across the north Atlantic was a treat; planes still suck.
Depends on what cabin you're in! 😉
RMS Olympic deserved this place
The Great Britain was one of 3 ships designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the man regarded as the greatest engineer in history.
It was one of, if not the, first screw propeller and metal hulled ships, each a major milestone in shipbuilding.
As of September 7, 2024, the SS United States might soon end up as an artificial reef. While it’s a more noble end than ending up scrapped in a foreign land, I still hope that the ship can be preserved for future generations.
Yes they made the deal and IT’s finally going to be sunk
I never knew the Brazil-maru was still out there! I live fairly close to the Hikawa-maru and wasn't expecting to see her here, but I was glad to see her included.
So many became hotels and museums. Nice to know as many as 15 remain, even though most aren't being used for passenger services.
Love your video I love int hé Netherlands and I go to the Ss every month for dinner it’s so amazing to be on a ship like that !
Being portuguese I'm so happy to see the Funchal here!
Also M.S Birjer jarl (former S.s. Baltic star) operated as a charter yacht after the SOLAS expired, and is now being refirbished and is now Renamed Baltic star.
M.S Lofoten (1963) originally named Ragnavald Jarl and has been renamed back to that name as a charter vessel and has the longest running engine of any passenger liner ever built totaling over 35 years of constant operation.
M/S Finnmarken (now a beached museum ship on stilts. (1962)
Gamle Skogoy (1948) completely Sank at it's mooring up to her funnel due to a leaky propeller shaft but is now being restored, all wooden interiors had to be remade, she's about the size of the SS. Nomadic.
Birger Jarl is a ferry, not a ocean liner
The number one liner that people wish was preserved is the Olympic.
Just imagine though what it'd be like if Olympic got preserved. It'd be one heck of a tourist attraction because of its relation to Titanic.
@@demonorca9539 Yes, shame the Britannic lies on the bottom of the Med. Evidently quite well preserved.
@@dianeunderhill8506 Very true, regrettably not at the surface though where we could easily access it or have it be a museum ship like the Queen Mary.
@@demonorca9539 Yes, it is regrettable. The interest in Titanic would have made these two ships, if they had been preserved, terrific tourist attractions as you say.
Normandie or Île-de-France
Ocean liners looks so great
The SS Great Britain is actually in Bristol, towed from the Falkland islands back to it's homeland to be rebuilt as a museum just down the road from my town. When the Mulus III towed it back, it was beyond refloatable, so it lays in an air sealed dock which you can pass under to see the propellers and rudder. Along with Great Britain, there are also plans to rebuild a section of the SS Great Western for educational purposes right beside the ship.
Currently in Bristol, gonna see it for the second time tomorrow.
We need to bring ocean liners back, cruise ships are a waste (you can literally do everything a cruise ship offers at a hotel resort without the disease and without being hated by island residents) for planes not everyone can fly in one and stitting in a cramped seat around strangers isn't my ideal method of travel. And lastly it sucked the Olympic wasn't preserved, now the only way to see a Olympic class ship mostly intact is dive to the Britannic.
While ocean linear would be interesting in the modern day the same reason they became unused in the 70s and 80s means that their use would be unprofitable, no one besides ship enthusiasts would sit on a ship for around 4-5 days when they could rather take a 7 hour flight over the Atlantic instead
@Ace_Star_543 it would be no different than someone choosing to ride a coach bus that takes days on land than flying.
@@thefancydoge8668 Alright, lets take SS United States, fastest ocean Liner ever, took 3 days and 10 hours to cross the Atlantic. Very fast when it comes to ships the fastest pane that served passengers, Concord took 3 hours to cross the Atlantic while both are no longer in service it serves as a massive difference when it comes to speed and why planes took over travel of the ocean liners of old
@Ace_Star_543 did you even read my reply? I said it would be no different than choosing to ride a coach bus, which takes a couple of *days* on land compared to flying. Not everyone wants to ride a cramped tin can in the sky or literally can't get on an airplane due to health complications. An ocean liner would be a nice alternative and people do want to ride them, the queen mary 2 is always fully booked so there is a market still.
@@thefancydoge8668 Yeah I read your reply, no its not really the same distance wise, but ignoring that you bring up a fair point not everyone can or wants to ride in a plane and that's fair, but just as many people wouldn't want to get on a transatlantic voyage for the same reasons. Then there is the issue of cost, a flight from JFK airport too SOU airport is $457 for a one way trip and $781 for a two way trip according to Expida while according to the Cunard it cost $780 per person, flights are simply more cheaper, faster and cheaper for the company to operate then ocean liners another reason why they fell out of favor for the public
I still remember when I was a child and well internet access wasnt a huge thing, I absolutely loved ocean liners but thought that only Queen Mary was alive, I would never had guess that I would have the opportunity to not only met her years later, but to learn that more ocean liners are still around us
Thank you! I’m love this video. 2 weeks ago,I went to the Emirates & visited a ships “Queen Elizabeth 2”.
Yes I sailed on the QE2 from Europe. Didn't know it was now n Dubai - an incentive to visit there and relive old memories.
Nice video although SS Great Britain is in Bristol, not Lisbon
Your absolutely right! Sorry about that.
@@nboceanlinerhistory its ok
Good news as there is one more liner not mentioned still around, and seaworthy. -The MS Cap San Diego which is a hotel and museum in Hamburg, but also still sails several times a year.
I’m afraid she wouldn’t be apart of this list because she is a freighter, not an ocean liner.
@@nboceanlinerhistory I get that is what the majority of her purpose was, but she did run a regular route from Hamburg to South America and had cabins for 12 passengers, lounges and even a swimming pool for them.
It’s wo sad SS Great Eastern has not been preserved, what a magnificent piece of engineering that was halfway of the 19th century. Over 200m long, by far the largest ship that time.
After being broken up on the Mersey, one of her masts was recovered and still stands as a flagpole at the Kop end of Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium. A geophysical survey of the breaker’s site on the river suggests some of her hull might still be buried in the mud.
"magnificent" and Great Eastern in the same sentence isn't something I have seen before, though I agree that it is underrated.
People hate it, but it shows that Brunel was ahead of his time.
Thank you for this. Such a shame that so many iconic ships were not saved. And MS Stockholm's/MV Astoria's fate is hanging in the balance right now. I hope she is saved.
Trust me that ship's immune to the scrapyard.
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Sadly, the SS United States going to come to an end. I live in Philly and love to drive by it (I love ships) and it’s so cool every time I even saw it up close! But, people bought it, and later this year it’s going to become a home for fish in the sea 😔
RIP to the SS United States ❤
SS United States has been eliminated
This music is peaceful😊
I don’t know if you can really count this one but the nomadic still exists (she is on display in Belfast)
Queen Marry 2 is a regular visitor to my Caribbean island St. Kitts :) !!!
In addition to New York City, Philadelphia, or Miami ports where the SS United States could be preserved include Newport News, Boston, or Portland Maine).
Yeah, considering how the QE performed while she was briefly a museum ship in the Everglades in the 1960s and how much of a terrible state the SS United States is, I doubt Miami would be a suitable port.
@@randomscb-40charger78 Salem, Massachusetts might be a good location to have the SS United States preserved as a hotel and museum ship
It would be so sweet to have such ship as a home 😮
At 4:55 those are my uncredited images of BRASIL MARU at Toba, Japan.
My apologies, I can give you credit in the description. It was just extremely difficult to find relatively recent photos of the Brazil Maru. I found your images on a website but it didn’t tell me who took them.
Thank you. Appreciate that. :) @@nboceanlinerhistory
The Savannah has had her reactor removed and is little noticed and even less publicized. 😑
Man the music makes me miss all the old times…
The Olympic would be one of the liners preserved as a hotel ship, making a total of 16, but the French bureaucracy of the 1930s did not allow it, a shame it would have been a dream to see the sister of the Titanic and Britanic in person 😢.
I have seen the SSUS on a few occasions up close. It’s so sad to see her current state of deterioration. There have been many plans to preserve her as a museum or hotel or casino, move her to New York. The reality is that she costs a fortune to keep her where she is and I’m afraid she’ll be sold for scrap.
There has been a company that has had interest in buying her and sinking her to turn her into an artificial reef recently.
She’s going to be sunk as an artificial reef
Strange, just saw Astoria in the Waalhaven but if you look her up in any shipfinder she is somewhere around Helgoland, I suppose someone is using her (old) AIS code ?
SS United States will soon be in the stars. I’m sad i never got to see her. We will miss you
It has been eliminated
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Shame that no four funneled ocean liners exist today since all fourteen of them have sank or have been scrapped, leaving none to be preserved.
I think one of the Kaiser class should’ve been preserved
Yeah but unfortunately none of those were preserved
However they are building the titanic 2 and it will be launched in 2027 and will be the only modern four funneled liner in existence.
The Savannah is truly remarkable. 60 years old and looks completely modern. And a damn sight better looking too. Looking at you *ROYAL CARRIBEAN!!!*
Still a few more M.s Bore (ex SS Borea) (1962), M.s Nordstjernen (1956) (operational as a national monument/charter ship)
M/S Sunnhordland (1943) (converted froma PCE corvette after serving in WWII) (operatoonal)
Aurora/Wappen Von hamburg/Faithful (1949)
S.S. Keewaten (1907)
M.S. Rogaland (1929) (operational and was the hospital ship in the film dunkirk)
M.S Cap San Diego (operational)
M.s Sandnes (1950) (The only green hulled preserved liner now operated as a museum and training ship).
Those arn't ocean liners.
Like to put the record straight the ss.great britian was brought back to bristol where she was preserved and is still their in dry dock.
Yeah I know, I made a big mistake there
I know the description says "intact", but as far as existence goes, RMS Titanic, HMHS Britannic, RMS Lusitania or Andrea Doria still exist too. Yes, as wrecks on the sea floor, but they exist and are even accessible. Shps that never sunk like RMS Olympic or RMS Mauretania don't exist anymore because they were scrapped and completely obliterated.
Were those the only ocean liners that sunk or are they just examples
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Those are just examples, If you were to find out every exact sunken liner and it's history, it would probably take a while 😅
@@IZAQ_ Just examples, I wrote "or Andrea Doria" instead of "and", that implies it is a sample, not an exhaustive list.
@@IZAQ_A certain Italian owned line lost all but 5 of it's *87* ships during WW2. So, definitely not an exhaustive list here.
Nice video- "Canon in D" works quite well with the subject matter.
Rotterdam is an excellent example of how an ocean liner can be preserved. She's a beautiful ship, and I usually don't say that about ships with aft funnels!
Queen Mary is just a pleasant 30 minute drive up Pacific Coast Highway from my hometown. My dad was one of many who went out aboard small craft to greet her when she arrived in Long Beach in 1967. He was awestruck. I wish he'd brought me, but 3-year olds and boats don't always mix...
Big U. America's Superliner. The fastest liner ever built, with nearly 250,000 shaft horsepower. Only nuclear supercarriers have equalled or surpassed that kind of sheer might. Magnificent even streaked with rust and in faded livery, but appearances can be deceptive; she is structurally quite sound.
If I were a multi- billionaire, SS United States would be completely restored to full operationing condition as a functional museum, with her interior spaces rebuilt, sans asbestos. I wouldn't try to put her back into regular transatlantic service, but she would be far from static. Shorter excursions, 40-knot thrill rides...and her speed and size would be put to good use delivering personell and supplies for disaster relief when needed. She would, of course, be maintained in absolutely impeccable, ship-shape condition.
Are there any billionaires out there with the guts, vision, and heart to do something like this..?
MV Astoria AKA The Stockholm is currently on the list to apparently be “scrapped” I hope it doesn’t happen. The SS United States is a sad case of false hope falling through every single time it was brought up.
Can you do tender ships next?
Bro I’ve been on a ship from 1912 really cool int in Ireland Belfast I live there and I also saw where titanic was launched and everything like that.and even recognise some old photos of Belfast
You must’ve seen the Nomadic, tender to the Titanic and Olympic. But that’s really cool!
@@nboceanlinerhistoryyes I have indeed and I’ve been on it,it’s really cool and small but also nostalgic
I have done cruises on both the Stockholm and the Funchal.
I visited SS Rotterdam, incredible ship, very beautiful lines too.
It really is!
I travelled on it n the 90s. It was a lovely traditional ship and the crew at the time went to great efforts to reflect that in the service, as well.
I was not aware NS savannah still existed 😮
I also thought it was scrapped until I accidentally found it when looking for the S.S John W. Brown on Google Earth around a year ago
I remember the Queen Mary,Queen Elizabeth 1 & 2,SS United States,The
Northern Star,The Southern Cross,and the Union Castle Liners.If I
am correct they all came into Southampton.
Very nice selection of illustrations, great topic and good choice of music. One glaring error. SS Great Britain is preserved in her original building dock in BRISTOL, not Lisbon.
There is a preserved ‘liner’ in Lisbon (strictly at Alameda on the south side of the Tejo.) This is the fragata Dom Fernando ll e Gloria, a pure sailing ship, armed and rigged as a frigate but used to carry Portuguese colonial officials and their families to their overseas posts. She was laid down in the same year as Great Britain and makes an interesting, if stark, comparison.
There’s a plan to move the SS United States to a dock in manhattan where it wouldive left out of to be preserved as a hotel but it’s gonna be very expensive and she was recently evicted from Philadelphia and if she isn’t moved by September she will either be scrapped or sunk
It will be sunk
I know
I heard Stockholm will be scrapped
RMS Queen Mary "hit by a 90ft rouge wave"? Wow, that must have left them red-faced.
That rouge wave actually hit Queen Mary on the side. It happened during WW2 while carrying over 10,000 troops. The ship rolled over 50 degrees, but she stayed stable enough to not capsize. Had she rolled a few degrees more, it would’ve been the worst disaster at sea in history. The even inspired a movie called “Poseidon” in 1972 and was considering the wave that changed science. Waves of such proportion were deemed mythical at the time.
@@nboceanlinerhistory I think he's pointing out that the word you want is 'rogue' not 'rouge'. The latter means red in French.
Ahh I didn't know that. Thanks for clarifying. I really need to pay more attention to what I spell incorrectly. @@davidf6326
I suppose you mean original purpose-built ocean liners, because the majority of modern cruise ships are more than capable of travelling transoceanic routes.
Indeed, that’s what I meant. I believe the last true purpose-built ocean liners ever constructed were the Italian liners SS Michelangelo and Raffaello in the mid 1960’s. RMS Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth were built after those Italian liners, but they had a dual purpose design to also serve as fully functioning cruise ships.
I was hoping that the Queen Anne would appear, but it turns out that it is going to be a cruise ship instead of an ocean liner.
Can Wappen Von Hamburg (aka Aurora) be considered an ocean liner? She is a cruise ship but I saw in the news in a different country she is an “ocean liner waiting to be restored”.
The original Mauritania The Aquitania & Olympic all ended their days in a scrap yard😢.
They needed to save olympic he is the true unsinkable ship😢
It's pretty sad that their is only one ocean liner left in the world. They were beautiful ships its really sad that they are now museums or tourist attractions.
i just wish ocean liners weren’t phased out . i would’ve loved to have been born in their heyday and been able to ride on one . can’t afford to ride on the queen mary 2 unfortunately .
SS Great Britain is a museum ship in Bristol UK where she was built. Not in Lisbon Portugal.
Queen elizabeth 2😢 ❤I miss her soo much xx
Just pointing out that the United States was a superliner
i once sailed on the funchal for 4 weeks i stayed on as one of the engines was down and insurance would only let it sail if i stayed on the ship i was there to repair the engine it had 2 so sailed on one it had about 400 swedish passengers each cruise and did not want to cancel big payers then it was about 1978 i had enough by then and the ship went to lisbon for the repair we done 4 trips up to the arctic circle
The queen Elizabeth 1 is still in service at Alaska I saw it on quantum Alaska cruise
I stayed for 1 night last weekend on the SS Rotterdam.
The Old and good Reliable saved the face of White Star after the loss of the Titanic. Not much known is the fact, that Old Reliable Olympic appears in Sir ACD his 'Danger!' as one of the ships sunk 😅 by Captain Sirius. Actually she herself rammed and sank a German U-Boat in May of 1918. Was not only reliable but could also bite. ♍
Happy Birthday No. 534! You are now NINETY years old. The 26th of Sep. 1934 was a Wednesday. ♍ 'May shipwreck or collision, fog or fire, rock, shoal and other evils of the sea be kept from you!' - and they HAD BEEN kept away.👍
Was it a rouge or mascara wave?
Pleased to see I wasn't the only one to spot that 😊
What about Cunard RMS Franconia ?
How?
What about the SS Nomadic and the SS Traffic? They count as ocean liners I think
They are not ocean liners. They are tender ships.
On January 22, 2023, people on the Queen Victoria 2 got very sick with diarrhea and puking.
I knew, about the Queens, United States, Rotterdam, and Savanna (even though technical shes a combination liner, buts thats being really nitpicky), but I no idea that others existed. Im hoing to have to update my bucket list.
Just asking for clarification. What distinguishes an ocean liner from a cruise ship?
Here’s some key differences. An ocean liner is designed to get you from point A to point B as fast as possible. A cruise ship is simply a floating structure full of entertainment. They are in no rush to get anywhere. Cruise Ships also have various ports of call, where passengers may go on tours known as "shore excursions”. Because of this, Ocean Liners and Cruise ships are built quite differently. Ocean Liners are built to withstand the rough seas, which means they’ll have stronger hulls than Cruise Ships. The reason ocean liners are nearly extinct today is because Airplanes replaced the role of Ocean Liners.
@@nboceanlinerhistory thank you
I once read that a liner was built to cross oceans, a cruise ship is a barge with a hotel on top.
I will make a video with the same theme and style but about the latest airplane flights, can I?
Ayyyy i been on o doulus too
Noice!
What about ss nomadic?
Not an ocean liner
@@nboceanlinerhistory sorry, my bad
Soon only 14 will remain because Okaloosa wants to kill SS United States....but I enjoyed your video much amazing ocean liners.
mv astoria (mv stockholm) is listed as "to be scrapped", sad.
Wait a minute the queen Mary is retired no longer in use it is now a museum
That's the case with most of these, other than Queen Mary 2.
I wouldn't say that SS United States is intact today.
Your absolutely right. But at least she’s still more intact then your average ship wreck
i actulay toured the the NS Savanah in Southhampton
Don't know if it couts, but Titanic and Olympic's tender boat still exists, SS Nomadic
Yeah tenders don’t count. They weren’t ocean liners
What about the TSS Duke of Lancaster ? former railway steamer passenger ship that operated in Europe from 1956 to 1979, and is beached near Mostyn Docks in North Wales
She was designed to operate as both a passenger ferry (primarily on the Heysham to Belfast route) and as a cruise ship. Therefore the Duke of Lancaster wouldn’t be included on this list.
OK fair enough I knew she operated cruises but not totally in know of her full past.. she just came to mind lol :-)@@nboceanlinerhistory
@@TonyRadcliffeOh yeah don’t worry. It’s good that people bring up old ships that still exist today. Who know’s, I may have missed a couple true ocean liners out there.
Was NS Savannah an ocean liner?- I thought she was a cargo ship.
Ngl 500 is abit on an understatement Id say over 1000 ships
There’s probably about 500ish liners, but definitely not over 1000. Even taking into account obscure liners from the 1800’s, it just doesn’t add up to over 1000.
@@nboceanlinerhistory I did some research and yep there’s been over 1000
I dunno where u got ur info on the Great Britain but she is not in Lisbon she’s in Bristol in the uk
Yeah I that was on accident. I must have had the MV Funchal in mind when making the section for SS Great Britain and I somehow overlooked that mistake.
I’ve just heard that a guy wants to save the SS United States and turn her into a floating museum instead of sinking her as an artificial reef
“No ocean liner exist today”.
: The lines that exist today: