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

• List of cruise ships
• Timeline of largest passenger ships

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.