President or Prinz?
President or prinz? That was the question facing Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) officials in 1907 when…
Author John Edwards
John Edwards
John is the publisher and editor of Oceanliners Magazine.
Independence’s Turbulent Career
American Export Lines’ Independence (1951) was launched on 3 June 1950, beginning a long and…
The Empress of Ireland Tragedy
The Empress of Ireland disaster was the second of the three major ocean liner tragedies…
HAPAG’s Imperator—Mein Feld Ist Die Welt
Hamburg America Line’s Imperator was launched on 23 May 1912 at Hamburg’s Vulcan Werft shipyard.…
Vistafjord: Welcome Aboard!
Norwegian America Line’s Vistafjord left on her maiden voyage on 22 May 1973, a transatlantic…
Sun Vista’s Dark Day
On 20 May 1999 Sun Vista (ex-Galileo Galilei (1963)), bound for Singapore from Phuket, Thailand,…
White Star Liners Collide
Late on the afternoon of 19 May 1887 White Star Line’s Celtic (1872), steaming toward…
Hail Giulio Cesare!
Italian Line launched Giulio Cesare (1951) on 18 May 1950 at the Cantieri Riuniti dell’ Adriatico…
The QE2 Bomb Hoax
On 17 May 1972, while traveling from New York to Southampton, Queen Elizabeth 2 was…
The Horrible Collision That Never Was
It had all the potential to be history’s worst ocean liner-into-ocean liner collision. On the…
