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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1. Wikipedia: Ocean liner
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The first ocean liners were built in the mid-19th century.
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