Ocean Liner

A passenger ship built for scheduled point-to-point ocean crossings rather than leisure itineraries, with a deeper draft, higher freeboard, thicker hull plating, and finer bow to take North Atlantic weather. Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 (2004) is the last ocean liner in service, drafting about 34 feet against the 25 to 31 feet of typical cruise ships, and runs scheduled transatlantic crossings between Southampton and New York. The type predates and structurally differs from the modern leisure cruise ship.