Secrets Of The Lost Liners

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Secrets Of The Lost Liners

She was the pride of the French nation and became a much loved and talked about liner of her era. Not only did this ground-breaking ship survive at sea during World War 2, but Ile de France would also save many lives in peacetime with her stunning rescues. But her final days pla...

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Season 2
Not only was she an enormous, palatial ocean liner, she also doubled up as a fabulous first class cruise ship for the super wealthy. But her fame and appeal was short-lived after the Empress of Britain was called up for war duty, and she went into a final and spectacular battle with the German Luftwaffe.
She was one of the most shocking shipwrecks in modern history. After she foundered in a storm, Oceanos was abandoned by many of her crew and negligent captain. Hundreds of passengers were stranded on board and it was down to the gallant ship’s entertainment team to orchestrate an escape plan into one of the most breathtaki...
She was known as one of the unluckiest ships ever to go to sea: fires, collisions, deaths and accidents. But Achille Lauro made bigger headlines when she and her passengers were hijacked by PLO terrorists in 1985. The bloody events that followed caused a major political incident and were equally as shocking as the deadly t...
While not an ocean liner, Costa Concordia, like all other cruise ships of today, owe their DNA to the earlier vessels that helped globalize the world. But even vast pleasure ships can meet with disaster and the spectacular capsize off the coast of Italy in 2012 shocked the world.
Titanic sank with a terrible death toll in 1912 but soon World War I overshadowed the tragedy and she almost vanished from memory. But decades later, two very different men had dreams and ambitions to re-discover her, not just the missing wreck, but also bring back her memory and allure to a new generation through the magi...
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