Could I get some information on the ship MS Vulcania?

We continue to have posts about whether a ship is or is not an ocean liner. I would love to hear from other reddirors what they consider to be the hallmarks of the species. For me, an ocean liner has:

• a deep draft
• a hull built to take rough weather, especially the bow
• a lower superstructure
• an itinerary that takes people from one place to another, in a line across open water, mostly an ocean (There were ocean liners designed cruise, the Rotterdam is an early example)

That's just my opinion, based on things I've read. I'm sure I missed somethings. I'm sure there are exceptions. I would really enjoy hearing what the rest of the community thinks about this. Thanks so much. (This is my first post ever, so please be kind...) Thanks

Say the 707 takes flight a decade or two later. After the SSUS would come the France (who though really fast irl was still no match for her), and I imagine QE2 would have been built according to one of her earlier Q3 designs. And I needn't mention the various cancelled concepts for frankly insane vessels. Maybe even push the Jet Age back another decade - so late 80s, early 90s - and Cunard's Q5 comes in the picture. So what do you think? Does the Big U still hold her record to the present day or lose it?

I mean the news and books say they are like a town on the ocean, that's why they look like lego right?

Also the fatness and chunkiness of cruise ships kinda feel rigid and practical, like the friendly chubby kid from pe

because she tends to dominate discussion on here, i was amazed to find she didn't have her own dedicated Subreddit, so here you go. r/SSUnitedStates

I stumbled across this subreddit while Googling a couple of random questions and thought/hoped that members here might be able to better help me.

The first question is about ship turning time in port: Now, I know that this will vary widely with the port, time period, and ship...so to be specific, I am most curious about a ship like the Asama Maru (I know that she was built for Pacific service but am curious about her, or one like her), between the ports of Halifax and Liverpool, in the early 1930's time period (for reference to all questions). I assume that cargo will take the longest to unload/load so would determine the overall turnaround time? But I have no idea what time frame that would be? 12 hours? 18? 24? 48? Still, how long would it take to unload passengers from the ship and get them on their way from the terminal? How early would new departures need to arrive before sailing?

The second question is about sailing times: I have found some old schedules online but the seeming majority will list dates of sailing but not the times (though I have found a few pre-WW1 schedules that do). When booking passage, how long would you have to wait to find out the anticipated departure time of your ship? When purchasing tickets (how far in advance)? Would you have to wait until the ship had already arrived on the previous leg of its voyage (by the 1930's everyone should have had radio, though)? Did you just have to block out the whole day to wait around the piers until loading began?

Also, what would the preferable time of day be for departure? What few schedules I have found that do list times seem to be late morning or early afternoon.

The third is related to that; arrival times: I have heard the oft-mentioned story of Ismay remarking that Titanic would be better off arriving in the evening so her arrival would be in the morning papers. How late was too late to be convenient for passengers? (How early was too early, too, I guess?) What would be the preferred arrival time in general, 4:00pm? 6:00pm? 8:00pm? I don't think that anyone could ever offer a "to the minute" time (like a railroad timetable would) but would there be an arbitrary time given, such as 7:30pm, with it understood that it could/would be some time (a hour? Two? Three?) either way? How soon would passengers know this time? When booking? Last night underway? Or was it just, "We sail, we run the ship as fast as we can, and we get there sometime that day. You'll know it when it happens."?

And, lastly, the land side: The piers themselves. I have seem hundreds of pictures of them from the outside but nothing of what the interiors looked like. For a modern pier in this time period, is it all freight/warehouse on the first floor, and all passenger facilities above? Do the passenger facilities take up the whole length of the pier or just part? What would the facilities be like? Would either Halifax or Liverpool be comparable to, say, those city's railway terminals, or more plain/spartan, like a shed? Would there be things like restaurants, or just tickets/waiting/baggage areas? Is there anything that anyone could post of a floor plan so I could get a better grasp of how these were laid out?

I know that I know so little about these topics that I probably don't even know what I am asking...but any information/guidance from anyone would be much appreciated. Too, let me thank you all in advance for your patience!

EDIT: I see that I can't proofread a title, either. Dammit!

Bought this from ebay,this thing makes me start to smoke badly (i won't) Dates somewhere back in the 1950's,i thought to post this here

Compilation of webcam views. Quite nice IMHO.

https://youtu.be/FokrwyQ7x0A

It's kinda amusing nowadays that back then they couldn't tell the ships in some ilustrations exactly

r/Olympic is now live as an appreciation Subreddit for the RMS/HMT Olympic. Come say hi to Old Reliable

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i am the only ocean liner enthusiast in my friendgroup but one of my friends has a special interest in ww1 and he understands me 🤞🏻 (also for context: my nickname is nut)