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

Single name

The following ships were not renamed anytime during their career.
Ship nameYear launchedFate
1870Caught fire, and sank on December 18, 1891
1860Unknown
1871Scrapped in 1899 after being sold
1906Scrapped in 1935
1913Attacked by German merchant raiders, and sank on February 29, 1916
1926Scrapped in 1957
1951Collided with MS Stockholm, and sank on July 26, 1956.
1953Caught fire, and sank after hitting a reef on January 8, 1971
1913Scrapped in 1950
1902Torpedoed and sank by on August 19, 1915
1908Scrapped in 1931
1927Torpedoed and sank on July 2, 1940
1953Scrapped in 1979
1850Collided with SS Vesta, and sank in 1854
1911Scrapped in 1938
1919Scrapped in 1959
1928Torpedoed and sank on November 1, 1944
1871Ran aground and wrecked off Nova Scotia, April 1, 1873
1930Scrapped in 1936
1899Taken out of service in 1930, fate unknown
1942Torpedoed and sank on May 1, 1945
1850Scrapped in 1880
1903Scrapped in 1933 - Japan
1935Scrapped in 1971
1881Ran aground and wrecked May 22, 1896
1928Caught fire, and gutted in 1941. Later scrapped in 1946
1874Scrapped in 1903 after being sold
1914Torpedoed or Struck a mine and sank on November 21, 1916
1929Scrapped in 1960
1913Torpedoed and sank on March 1, 1918
1906Torpedoed by on February 7, 1917
1923Crippled by a German air attack on July 11, 1943 and sunk the next day by the Royal Navy
1911Torpedoed by the German submarine on April 15, 1917
1892Collided with, and sank on November 5, 1918
1960Scrapped in 1997
1927Bombed by British aircraft, and sank on May 3, 1945. Wreck dismantled in 1949
1913Sank in combat on September 14, 1914
1925Torpedoed and sank by on June 7, 1940
1905Scrapped in 1932
1877Unknown
1904Scrapped in 1933
1902Torpedoed southeast of Ireland and west of the Scilly Isles by on July 17, 1918
1924Bombed by German aircraft, sank in 1942
1902Scrapped in 1932
1901Ran aground on 10 December 1928, scrapped on site
1912Torpedoed and sank on December 6, 1942
1931Struck an air-laid mine on 17 June 1940, later torpedoed
1882Wrecked on April 11, 1902 at Remedios Point, Panama
1939Scuttled in 1940 by British torpedo after being damaged by German aircraft
1949Scrapped in 1973 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1863Ran aground in 1916
1935Torpedoed and sank on September 18, 1940
1864Vanished and presumed lost January 1870
1869Collided with River Mersey, and sank on January 7, 1883
1915Torpedoed and sank on November 6, 1942
1878Wrecked off Martha's Vineyard January 18, 1884
1850Vanished and presumed lost in 1854
1863Vanished and presumed lost in 1881
1851Wrecked in 1876
1922Torpedoed and sank on April 29, 1941
1888Scrapped in 1923 - Genoa, Italy
1920Scrapped in 1956
1874Scrapped in 1920
1854Sank on maiden voyage off Cape Race September 9, 1854
1873Scrapped in 1896 - Genoa, Italy
1878Struck rocks and sank on February 22, 1901 off of San Francisco
1881Scrapped in 1902 - Germany
1874Wrecked off Tokyo Bay, June 1885
1908Scrapped in 1933
1924Scuttled by the crew in 1939 to avoid capture by the Royal Navy
1931Scrapped in 1950
1922Scrapped in 1949
1953Scrapped in 1982 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1904Struck a reef and sank off Yokohama on March 3, 1907
1923Bombed by British aircraft, and sank on May 3, 1945
1922Scrapped in 1935
1928Crippled by a German air attack on July 11, 1943 and sunk the next day by the Royal Navy
1923Bombed by Allied aircraft and sank in 1944
1881Collided with Crathie, and sank in the North Sea on January 31, 1895
1912Bombed by Japanese aircraft and sank off Sultan Shoal on February 5, 1942
1930Torpedoed and sank on October 28, 1940 by a German U-boat
1920Torpedoed and sank in 1943 by the
1890Scrapped in 1912 - Yokohama, Japan
1906Collided with, and sank on May 29, 1914
1890Scrapped in 1926
1912Scrapped in 1945 - Barrow-in-Furness
1909Scrapped in 1934
1884Scrapped in 1910
1910Scrapped in 1936
1930Caught fire, and sank on May 19, 1932
1931Scrapped in 1956
1947Scrapped in 1969
1843Preserved as a museum ship
1858Scrapped in 1889
1837Scrapped in 1856
1929Preserved as a museum ship
1948Scrapped in 1975
1954Scrapped in 1973
1926Scrapped in 1959 - Osaka, Japan
1899Torpedoed and sank on January 1, 1917
1897Scuttled on August 26, 1914 as a result of the Battle of Río de Oro
1902Scrapped in 1927
1930Caught fire, and scrapped in 1936
1885Collided with Cromartyshire, and sank on July 4, 1898 off Sable Island
1890Scrapped in 1923
1911Torpedoed and sank on February 15, 1917 by the German U-boat
1921Torpedoed and sank on September 12, 1942 by
1908Scrapped in 1934 - Osaka, Japan
1908Struck two mines and sank on January 25, 1917
1958Caught fire, and scrapped in 1982
1893Caught fire, and scrapped in 1909
1906Torpedoed and sank on May 7, 1915
1889Scrapped in 1921
1948Wrecked in 1949
1923Scrapped in 1954
1911Struck a mine and sank off Dover, February 1916
1906Scrapped in 1935
1938Scrapped in 1965
1908Scrapped in 1933 after being sold
1962Scrapped in 1991
1970Struck rocks and sank on February 16, 1986 near Marlborough Sounds
1923Scrapped in 1934
1897Wrecked on Goodwin Sands, 20 December 1914
1922Scrapped in 1954 after being sold
1925Bombed by German aircraft in September, 1943 then subsequently scuttled
1937Scrapped in 1974
1961Scrapped in 1975
1926Torpedoed and sank in 1942
1870Scrapped in 1896
1899Ran aground off, Foula, Shetland on September 8, 1914, fully scrapped by 1979
Never launchedPartly built hull was deconstructed, and melted down to make the smaller Britannic and Georgic
1910Scrapped in 1937
1914Scrapped in 1950
1937Torpedoed and sank on October 10, 1942 by
1947Scrapped in 1973
1913Scrapped in 1951 - Scotland
1883Collided with an unidentified schooner, and sank in 1886 off Long Island, New York
1959Scrapped in 2005
1934Scrapped in 1963
1924Torpedoed and sank off Liberia on October 9, 1942
1950Scrapped in 1975
1929Scrapped in 1962 - Valencia, Spain
1908Scrapped in 1936
1953Scrapped in 1974 - Taiwan
1938Struck a mine and sank in 1941
1909Collided with, and sank on October 6, 1918
1909Torpedoed and sank off the Hebrides on July 23, 1917
1849Vanished and presumed lost January 1856
1850Collided with SS Orpheus, and sank on November 4, 1875
1916Caught fire, and capsized in Le Havre on April 18, 1939; scrapped on the spot in 1947
1925Caught fire, and scrapped in 1932
1934Sank on November 26, 1939 by either striking a mine or being torpedoed
1840Vanished and presumed lost March 1841
1931Struck two mines and sank on October 26, 1942
1907Torpedoed and sank by on May 31, 1918
1897Scrapped in 1921
1967Preserved as a museum/hotel ship in Dubai
1934Preserved as a museum/hotel ship in Long Beach, California
2003In service
1963Partially sank in 1983
1925Torpedoed and sank off Iceland in 1941
1925Scrapped in 1953
1929Attacked by German merchant raiders, and sank on November 27, 1940
1924Scrapped in 1961
1955Scrapped in 1975
1930Scrapped in 1958
1931Bombed by Allies, and sank on September 8, 1944
1911Scrapped in 1934 or 1936
1899Scrapped in 1925
1920Scrapped in 1958
1881Scrapped in 1902
1928Scrapped in 1952 - Hamburg, Germany
1895Scrapped in 1923
1935Scrapped in 1966 - Japan
1938Caught fire, and scrapped in 1938
1931Scrapped in 1961 - Hong Kong
1931Scrapped in 1962 - Hong Kong
1929Struck a mine and sank in 1939 off the coast of the United Kingdom
1911Struck an iceberg and sank, April 15, 1912 on her maiden voyage
1914Torpedoed and sank on May 4, 1917 by German U-boat
1925Torpedoed and sank on August 10, 1940 by
1914Torpedoed and sank on February 5, 1918 by
1884Scrapped in 1910
1951Laid up in Philadelphia, bought to be preserved as of February 2011
1940Bombed by Allies in 1943, the wreck was scrapped in 1948
1928Torpedoed and sank in 1942 by
1908Vanished and presumed lost 1909
1921Torpedoed and sank 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 nameYear launchedOther namesFate
1947MS Willem Ruys Caught fire, and sank on December 2, 1994
1925SS Berlin III Collided with the Pyotr Vasev, and sank on August 31, 1986
1899SS Grosser Kurfürst
USS Grosser Kurfurst
SS City of Los Angeles
Scrapped in 1937 - Japan
1946Sincere Caught fire, and sank in 1969
1914Euripides Scrapped in 1954
1881Magallanes Scrapped in 1902
1922Hansa
Sovetskiy Soyuz
Scrapped in 1981
1926HMS Alcantara
Kaisho Maru
Scrapped in 1958
1905Amerika
USAT America
SS America
USAT Edmund B. Alexander
Scrapped in 1957
1939USS West Point
SS Australis
SS Italis
SS Noga
SS Alferdoss
SS American Star
Wrecked in 1994 at Fuerteventura
1905RMS Aragon Torpedoed and sank in 1917
1931Teiyō Maru Torpedoed and sank on August 18, 1944
1929SS Pennsylvania Scrapped in 1964
1879Hancock Scrapped in 1926
1902SS Iowa
SS Bohemia
SS Empire Bittern
Scuttled in 1944 as an additional blockship for Operation Overlord
1946Stockholm
Völkerfreundschaft
Volker
Fridtjof Nansen
Italia I
Italia Prima
Valtur Prima
Caribe
Athena
Azores
In service
1901SS Pelagos Scrapped in 1962
1888The Viking
HMS Viknor
Torpedoed and sank on January 13, 1915
1888Kuban Scrapped in 1907
1926Falco
Sparviero
Scuttled in 1944, raised and scrapped in 1946
1950Great Sea
Ocean King
Philippines
President
Asian Princess
M/S Philippines
Philippine
Scrapped in 2012
1871SS Veendam Collided with a derelict ship, and sank on February 6, 1898
1914Belgic
Columbia
Scrapped in 1936 - Scotland
1913Argentina
Jerusalem
Aliya
Scrapped in 1959
1949Patris
Mediterranean Island
Mediterranean Star
Terra
Scrapped in 1989
1896SS Constantinople
SS King Alexander
Scrapped in 1929
1951SS Brittany Caught fire, and gutted on April 8, 1963; scrapped
1918Orca Scrapped in 1934
1928SS Uruguay Scrapped in 1964
1919HMT Cameronia
SS Empire Clyde
Scrapped in 1957
1955SS Fairland
SS Fairsea
SS Fair Princess
SS China Sea Discovery
Sea Discovery
Scrapped in 2005 at Alang, India
1947Columbia
Caribia
Wrecked in 1974 at Apra Harbour, Guam; subsequently scrapped
1907USS Harvard Wrecked in 1931
Chichibu Maru1930Titibu Maru
Kamakura Maru
Torpedoed and sank by on April 28, 1943
1874SS Berlin
SS Meade
Scrapped in 1921
1865Tonquin Collided with another French vessel, and sank in March 1885
1888Yale
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Scrapped in 1923 at Genoa, Italy
1950Oceanic ConstitutionSank on November 17, 1997
1925USS Hermitage Dismantled and partly reassembled as a museum in 1964
1908SS Cincinnati Torpedoed and sank on July 1, 1918 by a
1912SS Estonia
SS Pułaski
SS Empire Penryn
Scrapped in 1949 at Blyth, Northumberland
1924RMS Empress of Australia
Venezuela
Scrapped in 1962
1900SS Viktoria Luise
SS Hansa
Scrapped in 1925
1938Dominion Monarch Maru Scrapped in 1962 at Osaka
1914SS Medina
SS Roma
MS Franca C
MV Doulos
Preserved as a hotelship
1904RMS Virginian
Brasil
Homeland
Scrapped in 1955 at Trieste
1936Victoria
The Victoria
Princesa Victoria
Scrapped in 2004 at Kumar, India

E-H

Ship nameYear launchedOther namesFate
1921Empire Bure
Charlton Star
Maristrella
Scrapped in 1960
1930MV Monte Rosa Caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crew, March 30, 1954
1913Admiral von Tirpitz
Empress of China
Scrapped in 1952 at Inverkeithing, Scotland
1905SS Montroyal Scrapped in 1930
1955Queen Anna Maria
Carnivale
Fiestamarina
Olympic
The Topaz
Topaz
Scrapped in 2008
1928SS Duchess of Richmond Caught fire, and capsized on January 25, 1953; scrapped in 1954 at La Spezia
1960Mardi Gras
Olympic
Star of Texas
Lucky Star
Apollon
Scrapped in 2003
1913SS Alsatian Scrapped in 1934 at Dalmuir
1928SS Duchess of Bedford Scrapped in 1960
1890SS Loyalty Scrapped in 1923
1930RMS Empress of Scotland
TS Hanseatic
Caught fire, and gutted in 1966; subsequently scrapped
1905SS Kaiserin Auguste Victoria Scrapped in 1930
1928USS Europa
SS Liberté
Scrapped in 1963
Fairsky1942SS Steel Artisan
USS Barnes
HMS Attacker
Castel Forte
Scrapped in 1980
1955Oxfordshire Scrapped in 1997 at Alang, India
1902USS Finland
USAT Finland
Scrapped in 1928
1951Carla C
Carla Costa
Pallas Athena
Scrapped in 1994
1960SS Norway Scrapped in 2008 at Alang, India
1890Don
Moskva
San Guisto
Scrapped in 1924 - Italy
1905Amboise Scrapped in 1935 - Italy
1961Galileo
Meridian
Sun Vista
Caught fire, and sank on May 21, 1999
1908USS George Washington
SS George Washington
USS Catlin
USAT George Washington
Scrapped in 1951
1893Gothland - Scrapped in 1925
1924MS Berlin Scrapped in 1966
1957MS Navarino
MS Regent Sea
Sea
Sank on July 12, 2001
1961Costa Riviera
American Adventure
Costa Riviera
Scrapped in 2001
1925Yuri Dolgoruki Scrapped in 1977
1921Pine Tree State
President Grant
Scrapped in 1948
1913Columbus Scrapped in 1935
1896SS Friedrich der Grosse
USS Fredrick Der Grosse
SS City of Honolulu
Caught fire, and sank on October 17, 1922 by gunfire after a failed towing attempt

I-L

Ship nameYear launchedOther namesFate
1912USS Imperator
RMS Berengaria
Scrapped in 1946
1950Oceanic Independence
Sea Luck I
Oceanic Independence
Independence
Oceanic
Platinum II
Wrecked in 2010 off of Alang, India; scrapped on the spot
1914Statendam Torpedoed and sunk in July, 1918
1902USS Kaiser Wilhelm II
USS Agamemnon
USAT Monticello
Scrapped in 1940
1922Aconcagua Torpedoed and sunk on February 12, 1944
1899Fernandino Palasciano
Italia
Scrapped in 1926 - Italy
1896Omar
Edison
Scrapped in 1935 - Italy
1915Scrapped in 1950
1901USS Von Steuben Scrapped in 1923
1905HMS Princess Unknown
1906Mount Vernon Scrapped in 1940
1928John Ericsson
Italia
Imperial Bahama
Scrapped in 1965
1952Europa
Columbus C.
Scrapped in 1985 after being partially sunk the year before

1965Sea Princess
Victoria
Mona Lisa
Oceanic II
Mona Lisa
Veronica
Scrapped in 2016
1885Alesia Wrecked in 1923
1929Johan van Oldenbarnevelt Caught fire, and sank on December 29, 1963 while under tow
1920RMS Tyrrhenia
HMT Lancastria
Bombed by German aircraft, and sank on June 17, 1940
1946Media
Flavia
Flavian
Caught fire, and sank on January 7, 1989; scrapped 5 months later
1924HMS Letitia
HMHS Letitia
Empire Brent
Captain Cook
Scrapped in 1960
1913Vaterland Scrapped in 1938
1932RHMS Ellinis Scrapped in 1987 - Taiwan

M-P

Ship nameYear launchedOther namesFate
1924SS Leonardo da Vinci
SS Empire Clyde
RFA Empire Clyde
Scrapped in 1954
1914SS Bismarck
HMS Caledonia
Caught fire, and sank on September 29, 1939; scrapped in 1943
1926Matsonia
Atlantic
Queen Frederica
Scrapped in 1977 at Eleusina, Greece
1903SS President Johnson
SS Santa Cruz
Scrapped in 1952 at Savona, Italy
1931USS Wakefield Scrapped in 1964
1964Aleksandr Pushkin In service
1931SS Homeric Scrapped in 1974
1968Hamburg
Hanseatic
Maksim Gorkiy
Scrapped in 2009
1953City of York Sank in 2003 after capsizing
1896SS Barbarossa Scrapped in 1924
1917Piemonte Scuttled in 1943 by Axis forces, wreck raised and scrapped in 1949
1903President Fillmore
Panamanian
Scrapped in 1946 at Shanghai, China
1922SS Rimutaka
SS Europa
SS Nassau
SS Acapulco
Scrapped in 1964
1931Matsonia
Lurline
Britanis
Belofin-1
Sank on October 21, 2000
1923Scrapped in 1954
SS Nitta Maru1939Chūyō Torpedoed and sunk on December 4, 1943 by the USS Sailfish
1901Kungsholm Scrapped in 1927
1932USS Lafayette Caught fire and capsized in 1942; scrapped in 1946
1963StarShip Oceanic
Big Red Boat I
Scrapped in 2012
1938Angelina Lauro Caught fire, and sank on September 24, 1979
1949MS Fulvia Caught fire, and sank in 1970 while being towed
1939USAT Panama
USAT James Parker
James Parker
SS Panama
President Hoover
SS Regina
SS Regina Prima
Scrapped in 1985
1870Victoria
Straits No. 27
Straits Maru
Scrapped in 1956 at Osaka, Japan
1938Bremen
Regina Magna
Saudiphil I
Filipinas Saudi I
Sank in the Indian Ocean in 1980 while being towed to the Taiwanese ship breakers
1957Ocean Queen
Sinbad I
Scrapped in 1980 at Kaohsiung, Taiwan
1896USS Nansemond Scrapped in 1924
1900SS Prinzess Irene
Bremen
SS Karlsruhe
Scrapped in 1932
1900Stockholm
Solglimt
Sonderburg
Scuttled in 1944 by German troops, fully scrapped by 1947
1899SS Hamburg
New Rochelle
Hudson
President Fillmore
Scrapped in 1928
1920Golden State
Tasker H. Bliss
Torpedoed and sunk on November 12, 1942
1921Peninsula State
President Pierce
Joseph T. Dickman
Scrapped in 1948
1936TS Empire Doon
TS Gunung Djati
MV Gunung Djati
KRI Tanjung
Scrapped in 1987
1938RMMV Warwick Castle Scrapped in 1962
1948S.A. OranjeScrapped in 1975
1900SS Kiautschou
SS Princess Alice
USS Princess Matoika
USAT Princess Matoika
SS Princess Matoika
SS President Arthur
SS City of Honolulu
Caught fire, and scrapped in 1934
1960Al Hasa
Fairsky
Vera
Marianna IX
Marianna 9
Mariann 9
Scrapped in 2001 at Alang, India
1907USS Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
SS Empress of China
RMS Empress of India
SS Montlaurier
SS Monteith
SS Montnairn
Scrapped in 1929 at Genoa

Q-Z

Ship nameYear launchedOther namesFate
1938Elizabeth
Seawise University
Caught fire, and sank on January 9, 1972. Later scrapped between 1974 and 1975
1953SS Olympia
SS Caribe
MS Caribe I
Scrapped in 2009
1903SS Columbus Collided with the SS Florida, and sank on January 24, 1909
1951Pride of Mississippi
Pride of Galveston
Sank in 2003 while on the way to the scrapyard
1926SS Aquila Scuttled on April 19, 1945 and fully scrapped by 1952
1958Rembrandt Preserved as a hotelship
1965Gripsholm
Saga Rose
Scrapped in 2010 at Jiangyin, China
1958Stella Polaris
Kuwait Marriott Hotel
Ramada al Salam Hotel
Scrapped in 2002, she had been bombed in 1990 as a result of the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait
1916USAT Santa Rosa
USS Santa Rosa
SS Oregonian
Torpedoed in 1942
1932SS Athinai Scrapped in 1989 at Aliaga, Turkey
1954RMS Carmania
SS Leonid Sobinov
Scrapped in 1999 at Alang, India
1904La Bourdonnais Scrapped in 1934
1934Shin'yō Sank in the Yellow Sea on November 17, 1944, by the United States Navy submarine Spadefish
1964Hanseatic
Doric
Royal Odyssey
Regent Sun
Sun Venture
Sun
Sun 11
Sank outside Cape St. Francis on July 26, 2001
1938Gruziya Scrapped in 1975 at La Spezia
1954Calypso
Calypso I
Azure Seas
OceanBreeze
Scrapped in 2003 at Chittagong, Bangladesh
1956Rhapsody
Regent Star
Sea Harmony
Harmony I
Scrapped in 2004 at Alang, India
TSS Stefan Batory1952TSS Maasdam IV
TSS Stefan
Scrapped in 2000 at Aliaga, Turkey
1949SS Cambodge Scrapped in 2003
1894USS Louisville Scrapped in 1924 at Genoa
1940MS Sabaudia Bombed by British aircraft, and sank on July 6, 1944. Scrapped in 1949
1957Santa Rosa
Diamond Island
Regent Rainbow
The Emerald
Scrapped in 2012
1952Triton Scrapped in 1992
1900Southland Torpedoed and sunk on June 4, 1917 by
1972Caronia
Saga Ruby
Oasia
Scrapped in 2017 at Alang, India
1926Caribia Sank on March 15, 1973
1932USS Mount Vernon Scrapped in 1965
1959Margarita L
Rita
Scrapped in 2005
1900SS Northland
SS Minnesota
Scrapped in 1930 at Inverkeithing