List of ocean liners

This is a list of ocean liners past and present, which are passenger ships engaged in the transportation of passengers and goods in transoceanic voyages. Ships primarily designed for pleasure cruises are listed at List of cruise ships. Some ships which have been explicitly designed for both line voyages and cruises, or which have been converted from liners to cruise ships, may be listed in both places. Also included are cargo liners designed to carry both cargo and passengers.

Legend

  •   Preserved and/or laid up ships

Single name

The following ships were not renamed anytime during their career.

Ship name Year launched Fate
SS Abyssinia 1870 Caught fire, and sank on December 18, 1891
SS Adolphine 1860 Unknown
SS Adriatic 1871 Scrapped in 1899 after being sold
RMS Adriatic 1906 Scrapped in 1935
RMS Ascania 1911 Ran aground off cape Rey and sank in 1918
RMS Alcantara 1913 Attacked by German merchant raiders, and sank on February 29, 1916
SS Algonquin 1926 Scrapped in 1957
SS Andrea Doria 1951 Collided with MS Stockholm, and sank on July 26, 1956.
SS Antilles 1953 Caught fire, and sank after hitting a reef on January 8, 1971
RMS Aquitania 1913 Scrapped in 1950
SS Arabic 1902 Torpedoed and sunk by SM U-24 on August 19, 1915
SS Arabic 1908 Scrapped in 1931
SS Arandora Star 1927 Torpedoed and sunk on July 2, 1940
SS Arcadia 1953 Scrapped in 1979
SS Arctic 1850 Collided with SS Vesta, and sank in 1854
RMS Arlanza 1911 Scrapped in 1938
RMS Arundel Castle 1919 Scrapped in 1959
Asama Maru 1928 Torpedoed and sunk on November 1, 1944
RMS Atlantic 1871 Ran aground and wrecked off Nova Scotia, April 1, 1873
SS L'Atlantique 1930 Scrapped in 1936
Awa Maru 1899 Taken out of service in 1930, fate unknown
MV Awa Maru 1942 Torpedoed and sunk on May 1, 1945
SS Baltic 1850 Scrapped in 1880
RMS Baltic 1903 Scrapped in 1933 - Japan
MS Batory 1935 Scrapped in 1971
SS Belgravia 1881 Ran aground and wrecked May 22, 1896
SS Bremen 1928 Caught fire, and gutted in 1941. Later scrapped in 1946
SS Britannic 1874 Scrapped in 1903 after being sold
HMHS Britannic 1914 Struck a mine and sank on November 21, 1916
MV Britannic 1929 Scrapped in 1960
HMS Calgarian 1913 Torpedoed and sunk on March 1, 1918
SS California 1906 Torpedoed by SM U-85 on February 7, 1917
SS California 1923 Crippled by a German air attack on July 11, 1943 and sunk the next day by the Royal Navy
SS Cameronia 1911 Torpedoed by the German submarine SM U-33 on April 15, 1917
RMS Campania 1892 Collided with HMS Glorious, and sank on November 5, 1918
SS Canberra 1960 Scrapped in 1997
SS Cap Arcona 1927 Bombed by British aircraft, and sank on May 3, 1945. Wreck dismantled in 1949
SMS Cap Trafalgar 1913 Sank in combat on September 14, 1914
RMS Carinthia 1925 Torpedoed and sunk by U-46 on June 7, 1940
RMS Carmania 1905 Scrapped in 1932
SS Carondelet 1877 Unknown
RMS Caronia 1904 Scrapped in 1933
RMS Carpathia 1902 Torpedoed southeast of Ireland and west of the Scilly Isles by SM U-55 on July 17, 1918
SS Cathay 1924 Bombed by German aircraft, sank in 1942
RMS Cedric 1902 Scrapped in 1932
RMS Celtic 1901 Ran aground on 10 December 1928, scrapped on site
SS Ceramic 1912 Torpedoed and sunk on December 6, 1942
SS Champlain 1931 Struck an air-laid mine on 17 June 1940, later torpedoed
SS Cheribon 1882 Wrecked on April 11, 1902 at Remedios Point, Panama
MS Chrobry 1939 Scuttled in 1940 by British torpedo after being damaged by German aircraft
SS Chusan 1949 Scrapped in 1973 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan
SS City of Adelaide 1863 Ran aground in 1916
SS City of Benares 1935 Torpedoed and sunk on September 18, 1940
SS City of Boston 1864 Vanished and presumed lost January 1870
SS City of Brussels 1869 Collided with River Mersey, and sank on January 7, 1883
SS City of Cairo 1915 Torpedoed and sunk on November 6, 1942
SS City of Columbus 1878 Wrecked off Martha's Vineyard January 18, 1884
SS City of Glasgow 1850 Vanished and presumed lost in 1854
SS City of London 1863 Vanished and presumed lost in 1881
SS City of Manchester 1851 Wrecked in 1876
SS City of Nagpur 1922 Torpedoed and sunk on April 29, 1941
SS City of New York 1888 Scrapped in 1923 - Genoa, Italy
SS City of Paris 1920 Scrapped in 1956
SS City of Peking 1874 Scrapped in 1920
SS City of Philadelphia 1854 Sank on maiden voyage off Cape Race September 9, 1854
SS City of Richmond 1873 Scrapped in 1896 - Genoa, Italy
SS City of Rio de Janeiro 1878 Struck rocks and sank on February 22, 1901 off of San Francisco
SS City of Rome 1881 Scrapped in 1902 - Germany
SS City of Tokio 1874 Wrecked off Tokyo Bay, June 1885
SS Cleveland 1908 Scrapped in 1933
SS Columbus 1924 Scuttled by the crew in 1939 to avoid capture by the Royal Navy
SS Conte di Savoia 1931 Scrapped in 1950
SS Conte Verde 1922 Scrapped in 1949
SS Cristoforo Colombo 1953 Scrapped in 1982 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan
SS Dakota 1904 Struck a reef and sank off Yokohama on March 3, 1907
SS Deutschland 1923 Bombed by British aircraft, and sank on May 3, 1945
SS Doric 1922 Scrapped in 1935
SS Duchess of York 1928 Crippled by a German air attack on July 11, 1943 and sunk the next day by the Royal Navy
SS Duilio 1923 Bombed by Allied aircraft and sank in 1944
SS Elbe 1881 Collided with Crathie, and sank in the North Sea on January 31, 1895
RMS Empress of Asia 1912 Bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank off Sultan Shoal on February 5, 1942
RMS Empress of Britain 1930 Torpedoed and sunk on October 28, 1940 by a German U-boat
RMS Empress of Canada 1920 Torpedoed and sunk in 1943 by the Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci
RMS Empress of China 1890 Scrapped in 1912 - Yokohama, Japan
RMS Empress of Ireland 1906 Collided with SS Storstad, and sank on May 29, 1914
RMS Empress of Japan 1890 Scrapped in 1926
RMS Empress of Russia 1912 Scrapped in 1945 - Barrow-in-Furness
SS Espagne 1909 Scrapped in 1934
RMS Etruria 1884 Scrapped in 1910
SS France 1910 Scrapped in 1936
MS Georges Philippar 1930 Caught fire, and sank on May 19, 1932
MV Georgic 1931 Scrapped in 1956
SS Gothic 1947 Scrapped in 1969
SS Great Britain 1843 Preserved as a museum ship
SS Great Eastern 1858 Scrapped in 1889
SS Great Western 1837 Scrapped in 1856
Hikawa Maru 1929 Preserved as a museum ship
SS Himalaya 1948 Scrapped in 1975
SS Iberia 1954 Scrapped in 1973
SS Île de France 1926 Scrapped in 1959 - Osaka, Japan
SS Ivernia 1899 Torpedoed and sunk on January 1, 1917
SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse 1897 Scuttled on August 26, 1914 as a result of the Battle of Río de Oro
SS Kroonland 1902 Scrapped in 1927
SS L'Atlantique 1930 Caught fire, and scrapped in 1936
SS La Bourgogne 1885 Collided with Cromartyshire, and sank on July 4, 1898 off Sable Island
SS La Touraine 1890 Scrapped in 1923
RMS Laconia 1911 Torpedoed and sunk on February 15, 1917 by the German U-boat U-50
RMS Laconia 1921 Torpedoed and sunk on September 12, 1942 by U-156
SS Lapland 1908 Scrapped in 1934 - Osaka, Japan
SS Laurentic 1908 Struck two mines and sank on January 25, 1917
SS Leonardo da Vinci 1958 Caught fire, and scrapped in 1982
RMS Lucania 1893 Caught fire, and scrapped in 1909
RMS Lusitania 1906 Torpedoed and sunk on May 7, 1915
RMS Magdalena 1889 Scrapped in 1921
RMS Magdalena 1948 Wrecked in 1949
RMS Maloja 1923 Scrapped in 1954
SS Maloja 1911 Struck a mine and sank off Dover, February 1916
RMS Mauretania 1906 Scrapped in 1935
RMS Mauretania 1938 Scrapped in 1965
SS Megantic 1908 Scrapped in 1933 after being sold
SS Michelangelo 1962 Scrapped in 1991
MS Mikhail Lermontov 1970 Struck rocks and sank on February 16, 1986 near Marlborough Sounds
SS Minnewaska 1923 Scrapped in 1934
SS Montrose 1897 Wrecked on Goodwin Sands, 20 December 1914
SS Mulbera 1922 Scrapped in 1954 after being sold
HMHS Newfoundland 1925 Bombed by German aircraft in September, 1943 then subsequently scuttled
SS Nieuw Amsterdam 1937 Scrapped in 1974
SS Northern Star 1961 Scrapped in 1975
RMS Nova Scotia 1926 Torpedoed and sank in 1942
RMS Oceanic 1870 Scrapped in 1896
RMS Oceanic 1899 Ran aground off, Foula, Shetland on September 8, 1914, fully scrapped by 1979
Oceanic Never launched Partly built hull was deconstructed, and melted down to make the smaller Britannic and Georgic
RMS Olympic 1910 Scrapped in 1937
SS Orbita 1914 Scrapped in 1950
SS Orcades 1937 Torpedoed and sunk on October 10, 1942 by U-172
SS Orcades 1947 Scrapped in 1973
SS Orduña 1913 Scrapped in 1951 - Scotland
SS Oregon 1883 Collided with an unidentified schooner, and sank in 1886 off Long Island, New York
SS Oriana 1959 Scrapped in 2005
RMS Orion 1934 Scrapped in 1963
SS Oronsay 1924 Torpedoed and sunk off Liberia on October 9, 1942
SS Oronsay 1950 Scrapped in 1975
SS Orontes 1929 Scrapped in 1962 - Valencia, Spain
SS Orsova 1908 Scrapped in 1936
SS Orsova 1953 Scrapped in 1974 - Taiwan
MS Oslofjord 1938 Struck a mine and sank in 1941
HMS Otranto 1909 Collided with HMS Kashmir, and sank on October 6, 1918
SS Otway 1909 Torpedoed and sunk off the Hebrides on July 23, 1917
SS Pacific 1849 Vanished and presumed lost January 1856
Pacific 1850 Collided with SS Orpheus, and sank on November 4, 1875
SS Paris 1916 Caught fire, and capsized in Le Havre on April 18, 1939; scrapped on the spot in 1947
MS Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft 1925 Caught fire, and scrapped in 1932
MS Piłsudski 1934 Sank on November 26, 1939 by either striking a mine or being torpedoed
SS President 1840 Vanished and presumed lost March 1841
SS President Coolidge 1931 Struck two mines and sank on October 26, 1942
USS President Lincoln 1907 Torpedoed and sunk by U-90 on May 31, 1918
USS Pretoria 1897 Scrapped in 1921
SS Queen Elizabeth 2 1967 Preserved as a museum/hotel ship in Dubai
RMS Queen Mary 1934 Preserved as a museum/hotel ship in Long Beach, California
RMS Queen Mary 2 2003 Temporarily laid up due to COVID-19 until at least April 18, 2021.[1]
SS Raffaello 1963 Partially sank in 1983
SS Rajputana 1925 Torpedoed and sunk off Iceland in 1941
SS Ranchi 1925 Scrapped in 1953
MS Rangitane 1929 Attacked by German merchant raiders, and sank on November 27, 1940
SS Ranpura 1924 Scrapped in 1961
SS Reina del Mar 1955 Scrapped in 1975
MV Reina del Pacifico 1930 Scrapped in 1958
SS Rex 1931 Bombed by Allies, and sunk on September 8, 1944
SS Rochambeau 1911 Scrapped in 1934 or 1936
RMS Saxonia 1899 Scrapped in 1925
RMS Scythia 1920 Scrapped in 1958
SS Servia 1881 Scrapped in 1902
MS St. Louis 1928 Scrapped in 1952 - Hamburg, Germany
SS Saint Paul 1895 Scrapped in 1923
MV Stirling Castle 1935 Scrapped in 1966 - Japan
MS Stockholm 1938 Caught fire, and scrapped in 1938
RMS Strathaird 1931 Scrapped in 1961 - Hong Kong
RMS Strathnaver 1931 Scrapped in 1962 - Hong Kong
Terukuni Maru 1929 Struck a mine and sank in 1939 off the coast of the United Kingdom
RMS Titanic 1911 Struck an iceberg and sank, April 15, 1912 on her maiden voyage
SS Transylvania 1914 Torpedoed and sunk on May 4, 1917 by German U-boat U-63
RMS Transylvania 1925 Torpedoed and sunk on August 10, 1940 by U-56
SS Tuscania 1914 Torpedoed and sunk on February 5, 1918 by UB-77
RMS Umbria 1884 Scrapped in 1910
SS United States 1951 Laid up in Philadelphia, bought to be preserved as of February 2011
SS Vaterland 1940 Bombed by Allies in 1943, the wreck was scrapped in 1948
RMS Viceroy of India 1928 Torpedoed and sunk in 1942 by U-407
SS Waratah 1908 Vanished and presumed lost 1909
RMS Windsor Castle 1921 Torpedoed and sunk on March 23, 1943 by German aircraft off Algiers, Algeria

Multi-name

Note: The ships listed here were renamed, and in some cases multiple times in their careers.

A-D

Ship name Year launched Other names Fate
MS Achille Lauro 1947 MS Willem Ruys (1947-1965) Caught fire, and sank on December 2, 1994
SS Admiral Nakhimov 1925 SS Berlin III (1925-1949) Collided with the Pyotr Vasev, and sank on August 31, 1986
USS Aeolus (ID-3005) 1899 SS Grosser Kurfürst (1899-1917)
USS Grosser Kurfurst (1917-1919)
SS City of Los Angeles (1922-1937)
Scrapped in 1937 - Japan
MS Agamemnon 1946 Sincere (1966-1969) Caught fire, and sank in 1969
SS Akaroa (1914) 1914 Euripides (1914-1932) Scrapped in 1954
SS Alaska (1881) 1881 Magallanes (1897-1902) Scrapped in 1902
SS Albert Ballin 1922 Hansa (1935-1945)
Sovetskiy Soyuz (1953-1980)
Scrapped in 1981
RMS Alcantara (1926) 1926 HMS Alcantara (1939-1943)
Kaisho Maru (1958)
Scrapped in 1958
USS America (ID-3006) 1905 Amerika (1905-1917)
USAT America (1919-1920)
SS America (1920-1931)
USAT Edmund B. Alexander (1940-1957)
Scrapped in 1957
SS America (1939) 1939 USS West Point (1941-1946)
SS Australis (1964-1978)
SS Italis (1978-1980)
SS Noga (1980-1984)
SS Alferdoss (1984-1993)
SS American Star (1994-2008)
Wrecked in 1994 at Fuerteventura
HMT Aragon 1905 RMS Aragon (1905-1914) Torpedoed and sank in 1917
MS Aramis 1931 Teiyō Maru (1942-1944) Torpedoed and sank on August 18, 1944
SS Argentina (1929) 1929 SS Pennsylvania (1929-1938) Scrapped in 1964
SS Arizona 1879 Hancock (1898-1926) Scrapped in 1926
USS Artemis (ID-2187) 1902 SS Iowa (1902-1913)
SS Bohemia (1913-1917)
SS Empire Bittern (1941-1944)
Scuttled in 1944 as an additional blockship for Operation Overlord
MV Astoria 1946 Stockholm (1946-1960)
Völkerfreundschaft (1960-1985)
Volker (1985-1986)
Fridtjof Nansen (1986-1993)
Italia I (1993-1994)
Italia Prima (1994-1998)
Valtur Prima (1998-2002)
Caribe (2002-2005)
Athena (2005-2013)
Azores (2013-2016)
Laid up in Tilbury
SS Athenic 1901 SS Pelagos (1928-1962) Scrapped in 1962
RMS Atrato (1888) 1888 The Viking (1912-1914)
HMS Viknor (1914-1915)
Torpedoed and sank on January 13, 1915
SS Augusta Victoria (1888) 1888 Kuban (1904-1907) Scrapped in 1907
MS Augustus 1926 Falco (1939-1940)
Sparviero (1940-1946)
Scuttled in 1944, raised and scrapped in 1946
MS Augustus (1950) 1950 Great Sea (1976-1980)
Ocean King (1980-1983)
Philippines (1983-1985)
President (1985-1987)
Asian Princess (1987-1999)
M/S Philippines (1999-2011)
Philippine (2011-2012)
Scrapped in 2012
SS Baltic (1871) 1871 SS Veendam (1889-1898) Collided with a derelict ship, and sank on February 6, 1898
SS Belgenland (1914) 1914 Belgic (1916-1923)
Columbia (1935-1936)
Scrapped in 1936 - Scotland
SS Bergensfjord 1913 Argentina (1946-1953)
Jerusalem (1953-1957)
Aliya (1957-1959)
Scrapped in 1959
MV Bloemfontein Castle 1949 Patris (1959-1979)
Mediterranean Island (1979-1981)
Mediterranean Star (1981-1988)
Terra (1988-1989)
Scrapped in 1989
SS Bremen (1896) 1896 SS Constantinople (1919-1921)
SS King Alexander (1922-1929)
Scrapped in 1929
SS Bretagne (1951) 1951 SS Brittany (1962-1963) Caught fire, and gutted on April 8, 1963; scrapped
RMS Britannia 1840 SMS Barbarossa (1849 - to German Confederation)

SMS Barbarossa (1852 - to Prussian Navy)

Cunard's first ocean liner - sunk as target ship by Prussian Navy July 1880
SS Calgaric 1918 Orca (1918-1927) Scrapped in 1934
SS California (1928) 1928 SS Uruguay (1938-1964) Scrapped in 1964
RMS Cameronia (1920) 1919 HMT Cameronia (1941-1945)
SS Empire Clyde (1953-1957)
Scrapped in 1957
RMS Carinthia (1955) 1955 SS Fairland (1968-1971)
SS Fairsea (1971-1988)
SS Fair Princess (1988-2000)
SS China Sea Discovery (2000-2005)
Sea Discovery (2005)
Scrapped in 2005 at Alang, India
RMS Caronia (1947) 1947 Columbia (1968)
Caribia (1968-1974)
Wrecked in 1974 at Apra Harbour, Guam; subsequently scrapped
USS Charles (ID-1298) 1907 USS Harvard (1918; 1920-1931) Wrecked in 1931
Chichibu Maru 1930 Titibu Maru (1938-1939)
Kamakura Maru (1939-1943)
Torpedoed and sunk by USS Gudgeon on April 28, 1943
SS City of Berlin 1874 SS Berlin (1893-1898)
SS Meade (1898-1921)
Scrapped in 1921
SS City of Paris (1865) 1865 Tonquin (1884-1885) Collided with another French vessel, and sank in March 1885
SS City of Paris (1888) 1888 Yale (1898-1901)
Harrisburg (1918-1919)
Philadelphia (1901-1918, 1919-1923)
Scrapped in 1923 at Genoa, Italy
SS Constitution 1950 Oceanic Constitution Sank on November 17, 1997
SS Conte Biancamano 1925 USS Hermitage (1942-1946) Dismantled and partly reassembled as a museum in 1964
USS Covington (ID-1409) 1908 SS Cincinnati (1908-1917) Torpedoed and sank on July 1, 1918 by a U-86
SS Czar 1912 SS Estonia (1921-1930)
SS Pułaski (1930-1946)
SS Empire Penryn (1946-1949)
Scrapped in 1949 at Blyth, Northumberland
SS De Grasse 1924 RMS Empress of Australia (1953-1956)
Venezuela (1956-1962)
Scrapped in 1962
SS Deutschland (1900) 1900 SS Viktoria Luise (1910-1921)
SS Hansa (1921-1925)
Scrapped in 1925
QSMV Dominion Monarch 1938 Dominion Monarch Maru (1962) Scrapped in 1962 at Osaka
MV Doulos Phos 1914 SS Medina (1914-1948)
SS Roma (1948-1953)
MS Franca C (1953-1977)
MV Doulos (1977-2010)
Preserved as a hotelship
SS Drottningholm 1904 RMS Virginian (1904-1920)
Brasil (1948-1951)
Homeland (1951-1955)
Scrapped in 1955 at Trieste
MS Dunnottar Castle 1936 Victoria (1958-1975)
The Victoria (1976-1993)
Princesa Victoria (1993-2004)
Scrapped in 2004 at Kumar, India

E-H

Ship name Year launched Other names Fate
SS Elisabethville (1921) 1921 Empire Bure (1947-1950)
Charlton Star (1950-1958)
Maristrella (1958-1960)
Scrapped in 1960
HMT Empire Windrush 1930 MV Monte Rosa (1930-1947) Caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crew, March 30, 1954
RMS Empress of Australia (1919) 1913 Admiral von Tirpitz (1913-1921)
Empress of China (1921)
Scrapped in 1952 at Inverkeithing, Scotland
RMS Empress of Britain (1905) 1905 SS Montroyal (1924-1930) Scrapped in 1930
RMS Empress of Britain (1955) 1955 Queen Anna Maria (1964-1975)
Carnivale (1975-1993)
Fiestamarina (1993-1994)
Olympic (1995-1997)
The Topaz (1997-2008)
Topaz (2008)
Scrapped in 2008
RMS Empress of Canada (1928) 1928 SS Duchess of Richmond (1928-1947) Caught fire, and capsized on January 25, 1953; scrapped in 1954 at La Spezia
RMS Empress of Canada (1960) 1960 Mardi Gras (1972-1993)
Olympic (1993)
Star of Texas (1994)
Lucky Star (1994-1995)
Apollon (1995-2003)
Scrapped in 2003
RMS Empress of France (1913) 1913 SS Alsatian (1912-1919) Scrapped in 1934 at Dalmuir
RMS Empress of France (1928) 1928 SS Duchess of Bedford (1928-1947) Scrapped in 1960
RMS Empress of India (1890) 1890 SS Loyalty (1915-1923) Scrapped in 1923
RMS Empress of Japan (1929) 1930 RMS Empress of Scotland (1942-1957)
TS Hanseatic (1957-1966)
Caught fire, and gutted in 1966; subsequently scrapped
RMS Empress of Scotland (1906) 1905 SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria (1906-1919) Scrapped in 1930
SS Europa (1928) 1928 USS Europa (1945-1946)
SS Liberté (1950-1963)
Scrapped in 1963
Fairsky 1942 SS Steel Artisan (1941)
USS Barnes (1942)
HMS Attacker (1942-1945)
Castel Forte (1950-1958)
Scrapped in 1980
TSS Fairstar 1955 Oxfordshire (1955-1964) Scrapped in 1997 at Alang, India
SS Finland (1902) 1902 USS Finland (ID-4543) (1918-1919)
USAT Finland (1919)
Scrapped in 1928
SS Flandre (1952) 1951 Carla C (1968-1986)
Carla Costa (1986-1992)
Pallas Athena (1992-1994)
Scrapped in 1994
SS France (1961) 1960 SS Norway (1979-2008) Scrapped in 2008 at Alang, India
SS Fürst Bismarck (1890) 1890 Don (1905)
Moskva (1906–1917)
San Guisto (1917-1924)
Scrapped in 1924 - Italy
SS Fürst Bismarck (1905) 1905 Amboise (1922-1935) Scrapped in 1935 - Italy
SS Galileo Galilei 1961 Galileo (1984-1990)
Meridian (1990-1997)
Sun Vista (1997-1999)
Caught fire, and sank on May 21, 1999
SS George Washington 1908 USS George Washington (1917-1919)
SS George Washington (1921-1931)
USS Catlin (AP-19) (1941)
USAT George Washington (1943-1951)
Scrapped in 1951
SS Gothic (1893) 1893 Gothland (1907-1911) - (1913-1925) Scrapped in 1925
MS Gripsholm (1924) 1924 MS Berlin (1954-1966) Scrapped in 1966
MS Gripsholm (1957) 1957 MS Navarino (1975-1984)
MS Regent Sea (1984-1997)
Sea (1997-2001)
Sank on July 12, 2001
SS Guglielmo Marconi 1961 Costa Riviera (1983-1993)
American Adventure (1993-1994)
Costa Riviera (1994-2001)
Scrapped in 2001
SS Hamburg (1926) 1925 Yuri Dolgoruki (1950-1977) Scrapped in 1977
USS Harris (APA-2) 1921 Pine Tree State (1921-1922)
President Grant (1922-1930)
Scrapped in 1948
RMS Homeric (1913) 1913 Columbus (1913-1919) Scrapped in 1935
USS Huron (ID-1408) 1896 SS Friedrich der Grosse (1896-1917)
USS Fredrick Der Grosse (1917-1919)
SS City of Honolulu (1922)
Caught fire, and sank on October 17, 1922 by gunfire after a failed towing attempt

I-L

Ship name Year launched Other names Fate
SS Imperator 1912 USS Imperator (1919–1920)
RMS Berengaria (1920–1939)
Scrapped in 1946 (fully)
SS Independence 1950 Oceanic Independence (1974)
Sea Luck I (1974–1975)
Oceanic Independence (1975–1982)
Independence (1982–2006)
Oceanic (2006–2009)
Platinum II (2009–2011)
Wrecked in 2010 off of Alang, India; scrapped on the spot
SS Justicia 1914 Statendam (1914–1916) Torpedoed and sunk in July, 1918
SS Kaiser Wilhelm II 1902 USS Kaiser Wilhelm II (1917)
USS Agamemnon (1917–1927)
USAT Monticello (1927–1940)
Scrapped in 1940
SS Khedive Ismail 1922 Aconcagua (1922–1935) Torpedoed and sunk on February 12, 1944
SS König Albert 1899 Fernandino Palasciano (1915–1923)
Italia (1923–1926)
Scrapped in 1926 - Italy
SS Königin Luise (1896) 1896 Omar (1921–1924)
Edison (1924–1935)
Scrapped in 1935 - Italy
SS Kościuszko 1915 Scrapped in 1950
SS Kronprinz Wilhelm 1901 USS Von Steuben (1917–1923) Scrapped in 1923
SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie (1905) 1905 HMS Princess (1915–) Unknown
SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie (1906) 1906 Mount Vernon (1917–1940) Scrapped in 1940
MS Kungsholm (1928) 1928 John Ericsson (1942–1947)
Italia (1948–1964)
Imperial Bahama (1964–1965)
Scrapped in 1965
MS Kungsholm (1952) 1952 Europa (1965–1981)
Columbus C. (1981–1985)
Scrapped in 1985 after being partially sunk the year before
MV Kungsholm (1965)
(1965–1979)
1965 Sea Princess (1979–1995)
Victoria (1995–2002)
Mona Lisa (2002–2007)
Oceanic II (2007–2008)
Mona Lisa (2008–2010)
Veronica (2010–2016)
Scrapped in 2016
SS La Bretagne 1885 Alesia (1923) Wrecked in 1923
TSMS Lakonia 1929 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1929–1963) Caught fire, and sank on December 29, 1963 while under tow
RMS Lancastria 1920 RMS Tyrrhenia (1920–1924)
HMT Lancastria (1940)
Bombed by German aircraft, and sank on June 17, 1940
SS Lavia 1946 Media (1946–1961)
Flavia (1961–1982)
Flavian (1983–1986)
Caught fire, and sank on January 7, 1989; scrapped 5 months later
SS Letitia 1924 HMS Letitia (1939–1944)
HMHS Letitia (1944–1946)
Empire Brent (1946–1952)
Captain Cook (1952–1960)
Scrapped in 1960
SS Leviathan 1913 Vaterland (1913–1917) Scrapped in 1938
SS Lurline (1932) 1932 RHMS Ellinis (1963–1987) Scrapped in 1987 - Taiwan

M-P

Ship name Year launched Other names Fate
RFA Maine (1924) 1924 SS Leonardo da Vinci (1925–1943)
SS Empire Clyde (1943–1947)
RFA Empire Clyde (1947–1948)
Scrapped in 1954
RMS Majestic (1914) 1914 SS Bismarck (1914–1920)
HMS Caledonia (1937–1943)
Caught fire, and sank on September 29, 1939; scrapped in 1943
SS Malolo 1926 Matsonia (1937–1948)
Atlantic (1948–1955)
Queen Frederica (1955–1977)
Scrapped in 1977 at Eleusina, Greece
SS Manchuria (1903) 1903 SS President Johnson (1928–1948)
SS Santa Cruz (1948–1952)
Scrapped in 1952 at Savona, Italy
SS Manhattan (1931) 1931 USS Wakefield (1941–1964) Scrapped in 1964
MS Marco Polo 1964 Aleksandr Pushkin (1965–1991) Scrapped in 2021 at Alang
SS Mariposa 1931 SS Homeric (1953–1974) Scrapped in 1974
TS Maxim Gorkiy 1968 Hamburg (1968–1973)
Hanseatic (1973–1974)
Maksim Gorkiy (1974–1992)
Scrapped in 2009
MS Mediterranean Sky 1953 City of York (1953–1982) Sank in 2003 after capsizing
USS Mercury (ID-3012) 1896 SS Barbarossa (1896–1917) Scrapped in 1924
SS Minnedosa 1917 Piemonte (1935–1949) Scuttled in 1943 by Axis forces, wreck raised and scrapped in 1949
SS Mongolia (1903) 1903 President Fillmore (1929–1940)
Panamanian (1940–1946)
Scrapped in 1946 at Shanghai, China
SS Mongolia (1922) 1922 SS Rimutaka (1938–1950)
SS Europa (1950–1951)
SS Nassau (1951–1961)
SS Acapulco (1961–1963)
Scrapped in 1964
SS Monterey 1931 Matsonia (1956–1963)
Lurline (1963–1970)
Britanis (1970–1998)
Belofin-1 (1998–2000)
Sank on October 21, 2000
RMS Mooltan 1923 Scrapped in 1954
SS Nitta Maru 1939 Chūyō (1942–1943) Torpedoed and sunk on December 4, 1943 by the USS Sailfish
SS Noordam (1902) 1901 Kungsholm (1923–1926) Scrapped in 1927
SS Normandie 1932 USS Lafayette (1941–1946) Caught fire and capsized in 1942; scrapped in 1946
SS Oceanic (1965) 1963 StarShip Oceanic (1985–2000)
Big Red Boat I (2000)
Scrapped in 2012
MS Oranje 1938 Angelina Lauro (1965–1979) Caught fire, and sank on September 24, 1979
MS Oslofjord (1949) 1949 MS Fulvia (1969–1970) Caught fire, and sank in 1970 while being towed
SS Panama (1939) 1939 USAT Panama (1941)
USAT James Parker (1941–1946)
James Parker (AP-46) (1941)
SS Panama (1946–1957)
President Hoover (1957–1965)
SS Regina (1965–1973)
SS Regina Prima (1973–1985)
Scrapped in 1985
SS Parthia (1870) 1870 Victoria (1892–1954)
Straits No. 27 (1954–1956)
Straits Maru (1956)
Scrapped in 1956 at Osaka, Japan
SS Pasteur (1938) 1938 Bremen (1957–1972)
Regina Magna (1972–1977)
Saudiphil I (1977–1980)
Filipinas Saudi I (1980)
Sank in the Indian Ocean in 1980 while being towed to the Taiwanese ship breakers
RMS Pendennis Castle 1957 Ocean Queen (1976–1978)
Sinbad I (1978–1980)
Scrapped in 1980 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan
SS Pennsylvania (1896) 1896 USS Nansemond (1919–1924) Scrapped in 1924
USS Pocahontas (ID-3044) 1900 SS Prinzess Irene (1900–1917)
Bremen (1922–1928)
SS Karlsruhe (1928–1932)
Scrapped in 1932
SS Potsdam (1900) 1900 Stockholm (1915–1929)
Solglimt (1929–1940)
Sonderburg (1940–1944)
Scuttled in 1944 by German troops, fully scrapped by 1947
USS Powhatan (ID-3013) 1899 SS Hamburg (1899–1917)
New Rochelle (1920–1921)
Hudson (1921–1922)
President Fillmore (1922–1928)
Scrapped in 1928
SS President Cleveland (1920) 1920 Golden State (1920–1921)
Tasker H. Bliss (1941–1942)
Torpedoed and sunk on November 12, 1942
SS President Roosevelt (1921) 1921 Peninsula State (1921–1922)
President Pierce (1922)
Joseph T. Dickman (1940–1948)
Scrapped in 1948
TS Pretoria 1936 TS Empire Doon (1945–1949)
TS Gunung Djati (1949–1973)
MV Gunung Djati (1973–1980)
KRI Tanjung (1980–1984)
Scrapped in 1987
HMS Pretoria Castle (F61) 1938 RMMV Warwick Castle (1946–1962) Scrapped in 1962
SS Pretoria Castle (1948) 1948 S.A. Oranje Scrapped in 1975
USS Princess Matoika 1900 SS Kiautschou (1900–1904)
SS Princess Alice (1904–1917)
USS Princess Matoika (1918–1919)
USAT Princess Matoika (1919)
SS Princess Matoika (1921–1922)
SS President Arthur (1922–1926)
SS City of Honolulu (1926–1930)
Caught fire, and scrapped in 1934
SS Príncipe Perfeito 1960 Al Hasa (1976–1980)
Fairsky (1980–1981)
Vera (1981–1982)
Marianna IX (1982–1984)
Marianna 9 (1984–2001)
Mariann 9 (2001)
Scrapped in 2001 at Alang, India
SS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm 1907 USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm (1919)
SS Empress of China (1921)
RMS Empress of India (1921–1923)
SS Montlaurier (1923–1925)
SS Monteith (1925)
SS Montnairn (1925–1929)
Scrapped in 1929 at Genoa

Q-Z

Ship name Year launched Other names Fate
RMS Queen Elizabeth 1938 Elizabeth (1968–1970)
Seawise University (1970–1972)
Caught fire, and sank on January 9, 1972. Later scrapped between 1974 and 1975
MS Regal Empress 1953 SS Olympia (1953–1981)
SS Caribe (1981–1983)
MS Caribe I (1983–1993)
Scrapped in 2009
RMS Republic (1903) 1903 SS Columbus (1903) Collided with the SS Florida, and sank on January 24, 1909
SS Rijndam (1951) 1951 Pride of Mississippi (1988–1991)
Pride of Galveston (1991–2003)
Sank in 2003 while on the way to the scrapyard
SS Roma (1926) 1926 SS Aquila (1939–1945) Scuttled on April 19, 1945 and fully scrapped by 1952
SS Rotterdam 1958 Rembrandt (1997–2003) Preserved as a hotelship
MS Sagafjord 1965 Gripsholm (1996–1997)
Saga Rose (1997–2009)
Scrapped in 2010 at Jiangyin, China
SS Santa Paula (1958) 1958 Stella Polaris (1972–1978)
Kuwait Marriott Hotel (1978–1989)
Ramada al Salam Hotel (1989–1991)
Scrapped in 2002, she had been bombed in 1990 as a result of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
SS Santa Rosa (1916) 1916 USAT Santa Rosa (1917–1919)
USS Santa Rosa (1919)
SS Oregonian (1925–1942)
Torpedoed in 1942
SS Santa Rosa (1932) 1932 SS Athinai (1961–1989) Scrapped in 1989 at Aliaga, Turkey
RMS Saxonia (1954) 1954 RMS Carmania (1962–1973)
SS Leonid Sobinov (1973–1999)
Scrapped in 1999 at Alang, India
SS Scharnhorst (1904) 1904 La Bourdonnais (1920–1934) Scrapped in 1934
SS Scharnhorst (1934) 1934 Shin'yō (1942–1944) Sank in the Yellow Sea on November 17, 1944, by the United States Navy submarine Spadefish
SS Shalom 1964 Hanseatic (1967–1973)
Doric (1973–1981)
Royal Odyssey (1981–1988)
Regent Sun (1988–1996)
Sun Venture (1996–1998)
Sun (1998)
Sun 11 (1998–2001)
Sank outside Cape St. Francis on July 26, 2001
MS Sobieski 1938 Gruziya (1950–1975) Scrapped in 1975 at La Spezia
SS Southern Cross (1955) 1954 Calypso (1973–1980)
Calypso I (1980–1981)
Azure Seas (1981–1992)
OceanBreeze (1992–2003)
Scrapped in 2003 at Chittagong, Bangladesh
SS Statendam (1956) 1956 Rhapsody (1982–1986)
Regent Star (1986–1996)
Sea Harmony (1996–2004)
Harmony I (2004)
Scrapped in 2004 at Alang, India
TSS Stefan Batory 1952 TSS Maasdam IV (1951–1968)
TSS Stefan (1990–2000)
Scrapped in 2000 at Aliaga, Turkey
SS Stella Solaris 1949 SS Cambodge (1949–1970) Scrapped in 2003
SS St. Louis (1894) 1894 USS Louisville (1918–1919) Scrapped in 1924 at Genoa
MS Stockholm (1941) 1940 MS Sabaudia (1941–1944) Bombed by British aircraft, and sank on July 6, 1944. Scrapped in 1949
SS The Emerald 1957 Santa Rosa (1958–1990)
Diamond Island (1990–1992)
Regent Rainbow (1992–1996)
The Emerald (1996–2012)
Scrapped in 2012
SS Uganda (1952) 1952 Triton (1986–1992) Scrapped in 1992
SS Vaderland (1900) 1900 Southland (1915–1917) Torpedoed and sunk on June 4, 1917 by U-70
MS Vistafjord 1972 Caronia (1999–2004)
Saga Ruby (2004–2014)
Oasia (2014–2017)
Scrapped in 2017 at Alang, India
MS Vulcania 1926 Caribia (1965–1973) Sank on March 15, 1973
SS Washington 1932 USS Mount Vernon (1941–1946) Scrapped in 1965
RMS Windsor Castle (1959) 1959 Margarita L (1977–2004)
Rita (2005)
Scrapped in 2005
SS Zeeland (1900) 1900 SS Northland (1915–1919)
SS Minnesota (1927–1930)
Scrapped in 1930 at Inverkeithing
RMS Zealandic 1911 Hmt Zealandic (1914–1918) SS Mamillius (?–1936)
SS
Mamari3 (1936–1939) SS Fleet tender c (1939–1941)
Ran aground in 1941 and later torpedoed by an E boat.

See also

References

  1. "Travel Health Advisories". www.cunard.com. Retrieved 2020-08-07.

Further reading

  • Russell, Mark A. "Steamship nationalism: Transatlantic passenger liners as symbols of the German Empire." International Journal of Maritime History 28.2 (2016): 313-334.
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