USS Leviathan, which carried 10,000 doughboys at a time, was built as a German luxury liner. Martin Rubin reviews “The Great Rescue” by Peter Hernon.

It was not bad luck that placed Floyd Gibbons aboard the RMS Laconia, a Cunard ocean liner torpedoed by a German U-boat a century ago in the North Atlantic. It was good luck — and meticulous ...

What one US sailor did when a German ocean liner flew the Nazi flag in 1935 NYC In a new book, journalist Peter Duffy tells how 84 years ago merchant marine Bill Bailey risked jail to tear a ...

The "Ocean Liners: Glamor, Speed, and Style" exhibit tells a narrative of society's love of ocean travel and how these ships evolved over the 100 years they ruled the seas.

When he was in 8th grade in 1973, a teacher assigned him a paper to write on the RMS Lusitania, the British ocean liner sunk by a German submarine in 1915 with nearly 2,000 passengers onboard.

The photo up top was taken by the chief steward of the German ocean liner SS Prinz Adalbert, which on April 15 was sailing through the North Atlantic mere miles away from where the Titanic had ...

On May 9 the regiment boarded the USS Susquehanna and the USS Antigone, former German ocean liners which were now put to work carrying American troops who would fight German ones.