Here's a career profile for a career you perhaps have not considered. Captains of ships and boats used for moving cargo or passengers are considered part of the merchant marines. Read about the type of work involved with this career as...

The Smithsonian's maritime collections contain many objects relating to the steamship Leviathan, the largest American passenger ship of the 1920s and 1930s. View these mementos originally preserved by passengers and crew to remember...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners use primary source documents to investigate central historical questions. In this investigation, students critically examine the passenger lists of ships headed to New England and Virginia to...

Lesson plan using primary sources in which students examine colonial ship passenger lists to identify diversity in the colonies.

n 1912, the Titanic was glorified as the largest and most luxurious passenger ship in history. See it before and after its tragic sinking in the photo gallery.

This short analysis activity asks students to examine two claims filed by survivors of the April 15, 1912 Titanic disaster to understand the vast class differences between a first class passenger and a steerage passenger. Students will...

First nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship.

American neutrality in World War I was sorely tested with the attack and sinking of the passenger ship, Luisitania. Read information about the attack and find conflicting reactions by Franklin Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan about...

NorthPark University offers several informative paragraphs on the sinking of the Lusitania, a British cargo and passenger ship that was torpedoed and sank due to German submarine activity on May 7, 1915.

Interesting information and fun facts about the sinking of the Titanic disaster in 1912.

Description of the Titanic with details on its collision with an iceberg in 1912 where almost 1500 people died.

An original questionnaire that passenger ships had to fill out when they stopped at the quarantine station at Grosse Ile on their way into the St. Lawrence Seaway. They had to pass inspection in order to continue on to Quebec City.

The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 passengers died as a result of the ship sinking. After the ship...

Corby Flood and her family are about to set sail on a rather ramshackle cruise ship, the S.S. Euphonia. Onboard, among the odd passengers and eccentric crew, there is a strange group of men in bowler hats who call themselves the...

Here's a piece of American history you problably know little about. In 1939 a ship filled with Jewish refugees sat off the coast of Miami waiting for permission to land. That permission was denied. Find out what happened to the...

Constructed in 1922, the Virginia V is the last functioning ship of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, and the only "wooden-hull, steam-powered, passenger vessel" that operates on the West Coast of the United States.