Plans call for the ship to be briefly housed at Pier 80 next to its current home before it is towed down the Delaware River, where it will pass under the Walt Whitman, Commodore Barry and Delaware ...

Although it’s often said that the era of ocean liners came to an end by the 1950s with the rise of commercial aviation, reality isn’t quite that clear-cut. Coming out of the troubled 1940s ...

Its Queen Mary 2 is the last “ocean liner” in service, a ship that was purpose-built for long crossings, and is the only ocean liner that makes regular passages back and forth across the Atlantic.

The goodbye celebrations were planned for the ocean liner that broke the transatlantic speed record on her maiden voyage from New York to Cornwall, England, in 1952. People arrived in the City of ...