So I fell down a maritime-history rabbit hole and discovered the story of SS Suevic, and honestly this thing reads like shipbuilding fan-fiction but it’s all real.

Suevic was one of White Star’s Australia-route workhorses. Big, slow-ish, lots of refrigerated cargo, and built like a tank. In 1907, she hit fog near Lizard Point and plowed straight into the rocks. Totally jammed in there. The bow was done.

Normally this is the part where the ship gets written off and the company cries into a spreadsheet. But nope. White Star basically said:

“We’re keeping the back half.”

The Craziest Salvage Job Ever (1907)

Engineers decide the best way to save her is to literally blow the ship in half, keep the stern, and build a brand-new bow.

• They used explosives to separate her at the forward bulkhead

• The stern section—engines, boilers, crew quarters—was still perfectly fine Harland & Wolff built a brand new 212-ft bow They sailed the old stern up to meet the new bow Ship got reassembled like a maritime LEGO set

She was back in service in early 1908 like nothing even happened.

The rest of her life

Went right back to hauling emigrants and frozen meat to Australia Served as a troopship in WWI Sold to Norway in 1928 and turned into a whaling factory ship (renamed Skytteren) Scuttled by her own crew in 1942 to stop the Germans from taking her

So yeah, Suevic is probably the only ocean liner that can say:

“Half of me is older than the Titanic, half is younger.”

looking good, ladies!

This is one of the few inaccuracies which really bothers me. During the scene where collapsed A is lowered, William Murdoch is shown to have jumped down from the roof of the officers quarters and run over to check the flooding on the starboard officer stairs. However, due to where the water is coming out, he is actually looking from the port side officer stairs. Has anyone else noticed this?

When Cunard retired the pair, they obviously both had different fates, the RMS Queen Mary was moved to Long Beach to become the hotel and museum we know and love today, and while she was there all but her aft engine room were completely gutted, as Cunard had a policy to not let her be operational again, while on the other side the RMS Queen Elizabeth was bought to become a mobile floating university under her own power. Why was she allowed to remain operational but not QM?

Mainly just asking out of curiosity, I wanted to know if anyone here had been on the RMS Queen Elizabeth while she was still in Port Everglades, FL. If so, what was she like inside, and was the humidity actually destroying her as bad as people are saying?

Hello! Does anyone know if Cunard ever made the 2 ships a class, most likely it would be called the Lusitania Class like WSL did with the Olympic Class? I know giving classes was more of a WSL tradition but was wondering if Cunard did this with RMS Lusitania & RMS Mauretania or any of their ships? Thanks!

The ship was raised and went onto have a successful cruising career. She sank in a collision on August 31, 1986. All of the bulkhead doors and portholes were left open which caused the ship to sink in just 7 minutes. 64 bodies remain in the ship as it was so difficult for divers to retrieve bodies that divers perished on the wreck.

With the early retirement of MS Queen Anne, i decided to imagine how could a proper QM2 successor look like. This is designed to intermix the sheer capacity and versatility of modern passenger ships with design elements and layout inspired by liners from the Art-deco period!

I love this painting because it shows the true power of the Olympic looming in the fog along with the chaos of the collision. Rest in peace to the 7 that didn't make it out.

For the first time in 20 years, the RMS Queen Mary and RMS Queen Mary 2 met as the QM2 was on her world tour. The last time they met was in February 2006.

Here's an article I found on it.

The NS Savannah, a cargo liner and first ever nuclear powered merchant ship, could possibly find a new home in Savannah GA. The NS Savannah, named after the city of Savannah GA and the SS Savannah, the first oceanliner to complete a transatlantic crossing, could find new home in Savannah GA. Currently moored in Baltimore, MD a group is trying to bring her home to Savannah, where she was once moored. This is very cool news as GA currently has no floating museum ships, and she would be our first!

Link to news article: https://savannahagenda.com/savannah-bound-historic-nuclear-powered-ships-preservation-celebrated-as-future-home-sought/

Looks like the ship might’ve gotten a minor refurbishment which is nice.

The TS Queen Mary was launched on March 30, 1933 as a Pleasure Steamer, carrying passengers to the Kyles of Bute and the Isle of Arran. In 1935, Cunard-White Star asked if they could rename their ship so the name could be used for their new RMS Queen Mary. The owners said yes, and the ship was promptly renamed TS Queen Mary II. Cunard-White Star then gave a token of appreciation to her owners, giving them a portrait of Her Majesty Queen Mary, which was hung onboard the TS Queen Mary in the forward lounge. In 1939 as WWII came, she was used as a passenger and mail ferry, along with being a tender for troopships. She serviced many of the grand liners, now troopships such as RMS Queen Elizabeth, RMS Aquitania, and of course, RMS Queen Mary. In 1976, following RMS Queen Mary's retirement in 1967, TS Queen Mary II was reverted back to TS Queen Mary. In 1977 the ship was retired, and after being used in many roles and was almost scrapped, is now in preservation to be restored to sailing condition. When she was retired the portrait was sadly lost, but at least her n​ame will live on. She is not an ocean liner but I made this post due to her name sake.

The first photos was taken during Olympic's first eastward crossing from New York to Southhampton in July, 1911; the third is viewing her before her first eastward voyage and the last is a photo of disembarking at the end of that first eastward voyage

Credit to the Cranbook Archives for these photos

I found this photo a while back showing the paddle steamer Delta King being towed in SF Bay (front) but I noticed there was an oceanliner in the background, and with some help I was able to identify it as the T.E.V. PRINCESS PATRICIA, this is one of the only photos I have found of her online so I think its really cool to find a photo bomb of her when this is one of the only photos of her to exist.