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Ocean and liner
* 1914Ocean liner sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with the loss of 1, 024 lives.
* 2007 –, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sinks in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.
* Ocean liner, holder of a transatlantic speed record
* Ocean liner,
* 1938 – Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth launched in Glasgow.
In the beginning they leave their mid-Western hometown of Zenith, board a steam liner in New York and cross the Atlantic Ocean.
French painter Michel Marnet ( Charles Boyer ) meets American singer Terry McKay ( Irene Dunne ) aboard a liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
For Haynes again, in May 1938 he navigated three B-17s over of the Atlantic Ocean to intercept the Italian liner Rex to illustrate the ability of land-based airpower to defend the American coasts.
In 1972 the SBS and SAS came into prominence when members of a combined SBS and SAS team parachuted into the Atlantic Ocean after a bomb threat on board the cruise liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2.
The new version of the soundtrack included six songs that were not on the original album release: " Black Dog ", " Over the Hills and Far Away ", " Misty Mountain Hop ", " Since I've Been Loving You ", " The Ocean " and " Heartbreaker ", plus new liner notes by Cameron Crowe.
The Blue Riband is an unofficial accolade given to the passenger liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean in regular service with the record highest speed.
A similar incident involving a passenger ship occurred in 1992 when the Cunard liner RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 struck a submerged rock off Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean.
Ocean liner services aimed at passengers ceased in 1986, with the notable exception of transatlantic crossings operated by the Cunard Line, catering to the niche market who appreciated the several days at sea.
* Encyclopedia Titanica ( includes Ocean liner and Titanic discussions )
simple: Ocean liner
He commanded the passenger liner SS President Roosevelt of the United States Lines during the famous rescue of the crew of the British ship Antinoe in the Atlantic Ocean in January 1926.
* Summer 1957 – For the first time, as many passengers cross the North Atlantic Ocean by airliner as by ocean liner.
Ocean liner
: 3: Ocean liner: Any large and prestigious passenger ship, including cruise ships.
* Ocean liner
The story takes place in large part on an ocean liner crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
By 1930, telephone customers in the United States could be connected by radio to a passenger on an ocean liner in the Atlantic Ocean.
* Ocean liner, a type of modern-day passenger ship
* Zamzam-Egyptian ocean liner sunk in the South Atlantic Ocean by the German sea raider Atlantis in April 1941.

Ocean and SS
* August 18 – The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.
* January 1 – The ship SS Catala is driven onto the beach in Ocean Shores, Washington, stranding her.
* May 22 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, although only a fraction of the trip will be made under steam.
* August 18-The Canadian ship SS Royal William sets out from Pictou, Nova Scotia on a 25-day passage of the Atlantic Ocean largely under steam to Gravesend, Kent, England.
* SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean
* July 19-Launch of SS Great Britain, the first iron-hulled, propeller-driven ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean ( designer: Isambard Kingdom Brunel ).
The Sirius, which had appeared before in The Shooting Star, was named after the SS Sirius, the first ship to cross the Atlantic Ocean solely under steam power, but was based on another ship called the John-o. 88.
The port official M. Leboutet had authorised captain Ike Aronowicz to sail to Colombia and, after 5 days on the Atlantic Ocean, the ship took the name SS Exodus and changed direction towards Palestine.
* SS Royal William, Canadian ship launched in 1831 and the first ship that crossed the Atlantic Ocean almost continually under steam power 1833.
SS Bernice, a ship that suddenly disappeared while travelling the Indian Ocean.
The " Jolly Boat ", a small lifeboat launched from the SS Anglo Saxon on 21 August 1940 after its sinking by the German auxiliary cruiser Widder, carried the surviving members of the ship's crew West across the Atlantic Ocean for sixty-eight days, before finally landing in Eleuthera.
The SS Chivalry was a British freighter sunk by a Japanese submarine in the Indian Ocean in 1944.
* A team of divers recovered a safe from the wreckage of the cruise ship SS Andrea Doria, which sank in the Atlantic Ocean on July 25, 1956.

Ocean and for
* In 1998, Benoît Lecomte was the first man to swim across the northern Atlantic Ocean without a kick board, stopping for only one week in the Azores.
* In 1999, after rowing for 81 days and 4, 767 kilometres ( 2, 962 mi ), Tori Murden became the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone when she reached Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
The Aethiopian Sea, Ethiopic Ocean or Ethiopian Ocean ( Okeanos Aithiopos ), is an old name for what is now called the South Atlantic Ocean, which is separated from the North Atlantic Ocean by a narrow region between Natal, Brazil and Monrovia, Liberia.
* 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship.
During the Cold War, U. S. Navy P-3 Orion antisubmarine warfare squadrons patrolled the North Atlantic Ocean for Soviet Navy submarines and surface warships.
Other industries include sun-dried sea salt in Great Inagua, a wet dock facility in Freeport for repair of cruise ships, and mining of aragonite — a type of limestone with several industrial uses — from the sea floor at Ocean Cay.
country code-55 ; landing point for a number of submarine cables, including Atlantis 2, that provide direct links to South and Central America, the Caribbean, the US, Africa, and Europe ; satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ), 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean region east ), connected by microwave relay system to Mercosur Brazilsat B3 satellite earth station ( 2007 )
country code-237 ; landing point for the SAT-3 / WASC fiber-optic submarine cable that provides connectivity to Europe and Asia ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) ( 2007 )
The Chinese armies conquered Vietnam for around 20 years, while the Chinese fleet sailed the China seas and the Indian Ocean, cruising as far as the east coast of Africa.
Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the islands used to be an important refuelling and provisioning station for ships from Europe to the Indian Ocean.
The stream was also the transportation route for their birch bark canoes, which could travel from Lake Winnipesaukee to the Atlantic Ocean.
William " Captain " Kidd ( c. 1645 – 23 May 1701 ) was a Scottish sailor remembered for his trial and execution for piracy after returning from a voyage to the Indian Ocean.
Further soundings made by the US Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping in 2011 are in agreement with this figure, placing the deepest part of the Challenger Deep at, with a vertical precision of approximately.
In the 19th century Mzizima ( Swahili for " healthy town ") was a coastal fishing village on the periphery of Indian Ocean trade routes.
From 1881 through 1888 Diego Garcia was the location of two coaling stations for steam ships crossing the Indian Ocean.
To accomplish the UK / US mutual defense strategy, in November 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, which includes Diego Garcia, from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £ 3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory ( BIOT ), with the intent of ultimately closing the plantations to provide the uninhabited British territory from which the US would conduct its military activities in the region.
For a brief period in the 1880s it served as a coaling station for steamships transiting the Indian Ocean from the Suez Canal to Australia.
During the Cold War era, the United States was keen to establish a military base in the Indian Ocean to counter Soviet influence in the region and protect the sea-lanes for oil transportation from the Middle East.
Various political parties in India repeatedly called for the military base to be dismantled, as they saw the US naval presence in Diego Garcia as a hindrance to peace in the Indian Ocean.
* 2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.

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