This video follows the great ocean liners of the late 1930s—Queen Mary, Bremen, Europa, and Normandie—as they rush across the Atlantic in August 1939, torn between profit, prestige, and survival. From ...

Attendees filled the main room and part of an overflow room at the McFaddin-Ward House on June 11 for historian Brian Dudley’s lecture, “The Golden Age of Ocean Liners: A Short History of Ocean Travel ...

Before the advent of jets like the de Havilland Comet and Boeing's iconic 707 in the 1950s, overseas travel was accomplished almost exclusively by ship. These simple Point A to Point B journeys — such ...