Top 10 Greatest Ocean Liners

The Queen Mary was a great ship and had a long and successful career on the North Atlantic run, but the Normandie was simply better. While she was slightly slower than QM, she used significantly less fuel to achieve a speed only a fraction of one knot slower than QM, making her much less expensive to operate. Normandie was also better looking, inside and out. Her interiors were light and airy while QM's were dark and stifling. Normandie's exterior was much more attractive with wide funnels and a sleek superstructure on top of an innovatively designed hull. Normandie was clearly a better ship in every way and it was a shame that the careless Americans burned her wile being converted into a troopship.

The most glamourous liner ever built! Sleek, streamlined superstructure, dramatic profile, stunning interiors and impeccable cuisine. The true epitome of the ocean liner. One could imagine Marlene or Fred and Ginger strolling along her decks, or eating dinner in the first-class dining room, a temple of gastronomy.

Absolutely the best of them all in every catagory. Glamourous in every way and true art deco in design. If I could climb in my time machine and make a crossing on any of the greats, the Normandie would be the one. by the way, it is widely accepted that her end came not as a result of U.S. bumbling, but as a result of Nazi sabotage.

Unmatchable. It's a ship designed to be the best, biggest, fastest, most modern and most luxurious of all in the golden era of fast Ocean Liners… with a basically unlimited budget!

A true new Normandie would be a financial suicide and we will never see a ship like that again.

One of my all time favourite Ships and would love to visit the Floating Hotel / Museum in Long Beach in California.

It set a speed record, served as a troop ship, touched millions of lives, and is now a floating hotel and museum in Long Beach, California

Beautiful and classic ship.

Paved the modern ocean liner/cruise business and a combination liner/cruise ships.

From her symmetry, luxurious yet balanced interior design, Old Reliable was a perfect ocean liner. She was not only an extremely successful passenger liner, but war hero who sunk an enemy U-boat; which can't be said by any other ocean liner. She also survived multiple attacks and accidents. She was a cut above the rest and as time past, her popularity stayed with her. In addition, her crew claim that she ran better at the time of scrapping than when new, which is a testament to her crew, engineers and quality. Although time bring evolution and new technology, the RMS Olympic is timeless and charming.

The most simple, yet elegant ship ever built. The Olympic class ships didn't try too hard, yet achieved the perfect blend of luxury and class. The Olympic was a war hero and favorite for the transatlantic route. She evolved with time and stay relevant till the end.

Titanic's successful and loved sister, which sailed until 1935 and was sold for scrap.

One of the most loved ships in history.
It's a pity that she's no longer with us anymore.

The RMS Titanic is my #1 favorite ocean liner. Although other liners are tied with Titanic for the top spot on my list, she'll always be my true love. In terms of ocean liners, that is. There will never be another ship like her. There can only be one RMS Titanic. But my connection to her is more personal. I have the last name of the final Titanic survivor to pass away. I don't know what to make of it. I'm unaware of much of my family history, but is it possible for me to share a familial connection to Millvina?

She was the one and only.

Yes, it's spelled that way.

The Lusitania was a really fast ocean liner of it's time, averaging from 25-27 knots (Mauretania's was only 24-26 knots) knots hitting top speeds of 32 knots. For some crazy reason, it went on a transatlantic crossing in just 4 days, 19 hours and 52 minutes (Mauretania's was only 4 days, 22 hours). It claimed the Blue Riband until 1909 when her sister the Mauretania claimed (even though she's slightly slower). Unfortunately she sank during 1915 with deaths of over 1200 people.

Beautiful design, aweful that she was sank by a U-Boot, around 1,201 people died in 15 - 18 minutes, almost as much as titanic. She was also very fast along with her sister, Mauretania.

One of the longest lasting at its time close to the Lusitania and Mauritania.

I have commercially fished the Pacific Ocean for over forty years. Many a time, I have encounter gales and high seas. Seas which have been a sheer battle retreating back to my home port of Mooloolaba.

Now I was on board the Queen Mary 2. About 10pm we let the pilot off at Mooloolaba and the ship turned to starboard and into a gale. I found a position up on the bow where the wind was coming across the deck at 70 to 80 knots. I truly had the biggest smile on my face, the adrenaline rush and emotion was like something most would not understand. For once, I was not on my little 'cat' with my heart in my mouth, nor was I on just a cruise ship which might be battling the roaring ocean below. I was now on board the greatest ocean liner ever built, and try as she may the ocean had to concede. Though nobody was going to hear me above the roar of the wind I unashamedly shouted to the ocean "You are not going to get me tonight". I went 'below' a couple of times for a cup of tea and the ...more

I actually find her the best looking - Normandie's big funnels ruin her and the 3 funnels of the Queen Mary just never caught on with me - And how is a random ship like Mardi Gras ahead? THat's a joke

Queen Elizabeth, for me, is one of the best looking ocean liners ever! she was also the biggest and one of the fastest! It was a shame that she burned in 1972

She could have ruled the Atlantic, been in service through the forty's like the Aquitania and possibly saved! She was the best Olympian.

The final sister ship of the Titanic. The ship had a saying that is rarely known but it was this :
"Britannic is as perfect of a specimen as man's creative power.

One awesome ship, beautiful looking ship and a heroic one as well (you all know why :) ). I absolutely hate the Germans for torpedoeding it. But I think it would have been scrapped just like Mauretania and Aquatania if it wasnt torpedoed anyways

Combined an iron hull and propellor and became the first passenger ship to do so.

Australian ocean liner that was loved and ultimately sold for scrap after a glorious career.

The beautiful Green Goddess. A Saxonia-class Liner, she was built to cruise as well as make crossings.

One of the first cruise ships. This ship was painted four shades of green.

First German super liner