Best Passenger Ship

SS Arctic was an American wooden-hulled paddle steamship operated by the Collins Line on transatlantic passenger service. On 27 September 1854, it collided with the French steamship Vesta in fog off Newfoundland and later sank in the North Atlantic. The disaster killed roughly 300 people, with no wo...

SS Norge was a Danish passenger steamship operated by the Thingvalla Line and used mainly on routes carrying European emigrants to North America. On 28 June 1904, she struck Hasselwood Rock near Rockall in the North Atlantic and sank rapidly, leaving too little lifeboat capacity for those aboard; mo...

SS Valencia was a passenger steamship that wrecked on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island in January 1906 while traveling from San Francisco to Seattle. After striking a reef in poor weather, the vessel became trapped near a rugged shoreline, where heavy seas frustrated evacuation and rescue eff...

SS Ville du Havre was a French transatlantic passenger steamship that sank in the North Atlantic after colliding with the British sailing ship Loch Earn in November 1873. The liner went down rapidly, causing a large loss of life among its passengers and crew. The disaster is also remembered through...

SS Tayleur was a large iron-hulled sailing ship built for the White Star Line and intended to carry passengers from Britain to Australia. On its maiden voyage in January 1854, it struck rocks off Lambay Island near Dublin after navigational and handling difficulties and sank with heavy loss of life....

SS Persia was a British passenger liner operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. On 30 December 1915, during the First World War, the German submarine U-38 torpedoed the ship without warning in the Mediterranean while it was traveling toward India, and the vessel sank rapidl...

SS Egypt was a British passenger liner operated by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. On 20 May 1922, it collided with the French cargo ship Seine in fog off the coast of Brittany and sank, killing 86 people. The wreck attracted sustained attention because it carried a large shipm...

SS Pacific was an American passenger steamship lost off the coast of Washington in November 1875 after colliding with the sailing ship Orpheus. The vessel had departed Victoria, British Columbia, for San Francisco carrying passengers and cargo, and only two people are known to have survived. The sin...

SS Sirio was an Italian passenger steamship operated by Navigazione Generale Italiana on routes carrying travelers and emigrants between Europe and South America. On 4 August 1906, it struck rocks near Cape Palos on Spain's Mediterranean coast and foundered. Several hundred people died, although con...

The SS Ancona was an Italian passenger steamship that was sunk during World War I by an Austro-Hungarian submarine in the Mediterranean Sea on November 7, 1915. The torpedo attack resulted in the deaths of over 200 people, including numerous American citizens. Because the vessel was attacked without...

The SS Falaba was a British passenger and cargo ship torpedoed by German submarine U-28 in the Irish Sea on 28 March 1915, resulting in 104 deaths. Among those killed was American citizen Leon Thrasher, whose death heightened tensions between the United States and Germany in the months preceding the...

The SS Elbe was a German transatlantic passenger steamship operated by the Norddeutscher Lloyd shipping company. In January 1895, the vessel sank in the North Sea after a collision with another steamship during a heavy storm. The disaster resulted in the deaths of roughly 332 passengers and crew mem...

The SS Islander was a Canadian passenger and freight steamer operated by the Canadian Pacific Navigation Company. On August 15, 1901, the vessel struck an iceberg and sank in the waters near Douglas Island, Alaska, resulting in significant loss of life. The ship was rumored to carry a substantial sh...

The MS Mikhail Lermontov was a Soviet ocean liner used for cruise service. On 16 February 1986, while navigating near New Zealand's South Island, the vessel struck a submerged rock and sank in the Marlborough Sounds. One crew member died in the incident, and the wreck now rests on its side at diveab...

SS Mohegan was a British passenger steamer operated by the Atlantic Transport Line on routes between London and New York. On October 14, 1898, the vessel struck the Manacles, a treacherous reef off the coast of Cornwall near Falmouth, and sank with the loss of approximately 106 lives. The wreck rema...

The SS City of Columbus was an American passenger steamer operated by the Boston and Savannah Steamship Company on routes along the U.S. East Coast. On January 18, 1884, the vessel ran aground on rocks near Gay Head (now Aquinnah) on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, during a winter storm, resulting...

MV Dara was a passenger and cargo vessel operated by the British India Steam Navigation Company. In April 1961, an explosion and fire struck the ship in the Persian Gulf after it had departed Dubai during severe weather, and the damaged vessel later sank while under tow. More than 200 passengers and...

SS Vestris was a British cargo-passenger liner operated by the Lamport and Holt Line that sank in the Atlantic Ocean on November 12, 1928, while on a voyage from New York to South America. The vessel developed a severe list in heavy seas and ultimately foundered, resulting in approximately 112 death...

The SS Berlin was a British-built iron-hulled passenger ferry operated by the Great Eastern Railway. On February 21, 1907, the vessel encountered a severe snowstorm in the North Sea and was wrecked on the harbor approach at the Hook of Holland. The disaster resulted in the deaths of over 120 passeng...