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Revision as of 22:38, 15 April 2010
The list of worlds largest passenger ships throughout the ages from the Age of Exploration to Industrial age all the way up to the Modern Oasis of the Seas the incumbent world's largest passenger ships. The timeline shows the timeline of world's largest boats from the Mythological Syracusia to 19th-century SS Germanic to 20th-century Titanic to modern-day Oasis of the Seas, then a survey showing the highest number of largest ships from the timeline by countries.
Timeline
Pre-Columbus
The Pre-Columbus Ships were rarely used as passenger ships but many accounts suggest they were.
- 240 B.C. - Syracusia, (Egypt)
- 200 B.C. - Thalamegos, (Greece)
- ? - Noah's Ark, (Israeli?) (Many Unknowns of this ship)
Age of Discovery
The caravels began becoming passenger ships as they transferred people of Europe to the New World in the late 16th up to early 17th century before the caravel became something of the past.
19th century
- 19th Century - Atrato, (Unknown)
- 1858 - SS Great Eastern, (United Kingdom)
- 1871 - SS Adriatic, (United Kingdom)
- 1875 - SS Germanic, (Germany)
- 1875 - SS City of Berlin, (United Kingdon)
- 1881 - SS Servia, (United Kingdom)
- 1881 - SS City of Rome, (United Kingdom)
- 1888 - SS City of New York, (United Kingdom,United States)
- 1891 - RMS Campania, (United Kingdom)
- 1893 - RMS Lucania, (United Kingdom)
- 1897 - SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, (Germany)
- 1899 - RMS Oceanic, (United Kingdom)
20th century
- 1901 - RMS Celtic, (United Kingdom)
- 1903 - RMS Baltic, (United Kingdom)
- 1906 - RMS Empress of Scotland, (Poland)
- 1907 - RMS Lusitania, (United Kingdom)
- 1907 - RMS Mauretania, (United Kingdom)
- 1911 - RMS Olympic, (United Kingdom) (Retained its crown for another year starting 1913 after the Titanic Sunk)
- 1912 - RMS Titanic, (United Kingdom) [1]
- 1913 - SS Imperator, (Germany)
- 1913 - SS Leviathan, (Germany)
- 1922 - RMS Majestic, (United Kingdom)
- 1935 - SS Normandie, ((France)
- 1940 - RMS Queen Elizabeth, (United Kingdom) [2]
- 1972 - SS France, (France)
- 1988 - MS Sovereign of the Seas, (Norway), (Bahamas)
- 1996 - Carnival Destiny, (Bahamas)
- 1997 - Grand Princess, (Bermuda)
- 1999 - MS Voyager of the Seas, (Bahamas)
- 2000 - Explorer of the Seas, (Bahamas)
21st century
- 2002 - MS Navigator of the Seas, (Bahamas)
- 2004 - RMS Queen Mary 2, (United Kingdom)
- 2008 - MS Independence of the Seas, (Bahamas)
- 2009 - Oasis of the Seas, (Bahamas) (Incumbent worlds largest Passenger ship) [3]
Nations
- United Kingdom - 15
- Bahamas - 6
- Germany - 5
- France - 2