This article traces the shift from historic ocean liners to modern cruise ships focused on entertainment. It discusses maritime law issues, like injury liability on ships and extending admiralty ...

Tugboats guide the SS United States, the largest passenger ship ever built in America, underneath the Walt Whitman bridge near Gloucester City, N.J., on Feb. 19, 2025. ‘Big U’, which once ferried ...

Chris Corsentino was four years old when he sailed from New York to Germany, for his dad’s army assignment, aboard the SS United States, in 1959. "I remember being in the playroom with my brother.

The SS United States is facing eviction from its mooring at Pier 82 in Philadelphia in a lawsuit filed by Penn Warehousing, the pier's landlord. The ocean liner has been rusting away in the Delaware ...

The S.S. United States — still the world's fastest ocean liner — will cruise by the Palmetto State on its final voyage after seven decades above the waves. When it debuted in 1952, the United States ...

The MSC Meraviglia is both the largest cruise ship and the passenger ship with the highest capacity to hit Newport Harbor. The Queen Mary 2, which visited in 2024, is the second largest passenger ship ...

The record for the fastest transatlantic crossing typically conjures images of bygone ocean liners with opulent amenities and decadent meals featuring roast squab and foie gras. Not stuffed crust pies ...

If you saw a massive ship docked at your local harbor, you might not be able to immediately discern exactly what type of ship it is at a glance. Specifically, is it an ocean liner or a cruise ship?

Since their development in the 1850s, ocean liners have been far more than simply passenger ships - they were also the conduit for enormous technological, social and global cultural change. This ...