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Passenger and Ocean Liner Vessels

Waterborne vessels built primarily to carry passengers, from early steam-powered passenger boats through the transatlantic ocean liner and the modern cruise ship. Belongs here: named ocean liners, early passenger steamboats and steamships built or primarily used for carrying people. Does not belong here: cargo vessels, grouped under cargo and merchant vessels, or small traditional watercraft, grouped under traditional and pre-industrial watercraft.

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Era of Emergence
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MS Oasis of the Seas

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Side Paddlewheel and Stack

North River Steamboat

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Queen Elizabeth 2 (ship)

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RMS Aquitania

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RMS Berengaria

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RMS Britannic

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RMS Campania

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RMS Carpathia

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RMS Empress of Ireland

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RMS Lusitania

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RMS Majestic

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RMS Mauretania

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RMS Olympic

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RMS Queen Elizabeth

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RMS Queen Elizabeth 2

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RMS Queen Mary

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RMS Queen Mary 2

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Hull with Four Funnels

RMS Titanic

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SS Andrea Doria

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SS Bremen

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SS Canberra

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SS Conte di Savoia

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SS Europa

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SS France

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SS Great Britain

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SS Great Eastern

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SS Great Western

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SS Ile de France

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SS Michelangelo

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SS Normandie

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SS Rex

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SS Rotterdam (1959)

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SS United States

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Steamship

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Ocean liner
WikipediaOcean liner, lead section, mid-19th century sentence
Quote, Ocean liner, lead section, mid-19th century sentence
The first ocean liners were built in the mid-19th century.
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