The 1960s list captures the exact moment the ocean liner gave way to the cruise ship. Its centrepiece is Queen Elizabeth 2, launched in 1967: Cunard's flagship on the North Atlantic, later a full-time cruise ship, and now preserved as a floating hotel at Dubai — the last great liner of the decade still in existence. Around her are the ships that show cruising being invented from older material: Hebridean Princess, a former ferry now a small luxury cruise ship in Scotland; Freewinds, begun as a cruise ship and still active; Ocean Majesty and Serenissima, survivors of the early Mediterranean trade; and two preserved liners, Ancerville and Orient Princess. Jet aircraft ended the liner era within this decade; the ships here are the ones that adapted, or were saved.
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Sources: https://sc.nrna.org/exe/ppt/L63538F/L41359F374/the-only__way-to-cross_the-golden-era__of_the_great__atlantic-express__liners-from-the-mauretania__to_the_france__and__the_queen_elizabeth_2.pdf