IMPORTANT SHIPS on the North Atlantic, 1900-1914

 

    listings not yet complete

 

see also top carriers to New York

 

and  ships sunk in World War I

 

 

Ancona (1908) - bringing Italians over and back

 

Carpathia (1903) - rescue ship for Titanic

 

Carmania and Caronia (1905) - pretty sisters testing turbines

 

Imperator (1913) - biggest ship of the biggest line

 

Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (1897) - Germany's most popular

 

La Lorraine (1900) and La Savoie (1901) - France's most popular

 

Lusitania and Mauretania (1907) - fastest before 1914

 

Olympic (1911) - sister ship of Titanic

 

Saxonia and Ivernia (1900) - closed berths for all

 

St Louis and St. Paul (1895) - America's popular pair

 

Titanic (1912) - more movies than the rest combined

 

Volturno (1908) - the ship that caught fire