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Are there passenger ships that travel from the USA to England?

When were passenger ships from England and Ireland to America the most popular?

  • I know my question is vague but please don't answer with 'Now.' or anything stupid. I want to know when it was really popular, and when it began commercialy with passenger ships etc. Also, if one was to but a ticket for one of these ships at this time where would they go? Thank you very much for taking the time to read my question, it is much appreciated

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    Ships were basically the only way for large numbers of people to get across the Atlantic until reliable jet aircraft came into service (Boeing 707 - late 1950s) - and even then flying was only for wealthy people, the planes basically took the ships' first-class traffic. It could be argued that it wasn't until the Laker Skytrain started in around 1974 that Transatlantic airfares were affordable for most ordinary people. So it could be said that the 1950s were the "most popular" times for ships. New York was the usual destination in the US, though you could also get ships to Halifax, Quebec, and Montreal in Canada; while ships ran from Southampton or Liverpool in England. Historically, the Black Ball Line started a regularly scheduled passenger service between New York and Liverpool in 1818, and the first steamship service was run by Cunard from 1840. The British government ran a monthly mail packet boat between Falmouth and New York from 1756, but it didn't carry many non-government passengers, and no cargo.

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Passengers have been travelling to the US from Britain and Ireland from the early 1600s............as far as numbers of people travelling the US limited numbers in the end and even during the Irish famine they didn't raise numbers to allow the Irish to get in... but right through the 1800s it was at its busiest especially the mid 1850s but lots of money was spent on posts for good reason as migration to the US escaped famine, wars, percecution as well as all the shipped out servants/slaves................. more ports were opened and Ellis Island an island of Upper New York Bay southwest of Manhattan. It was the chief immigration station of the United States from 1892 to 1943 .............America's first official immigration center, 'Castle Garden' welcomed over 10 million immigrants to New York from 1830 to 1892, then Ellis Island opened..........but there were many others America's ports today http://www.aapa-ports.org/Industry/content.cfm?ItemNumber=1022&navItemNumber=901 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ports_in_the_United_States

Maxi

The Titanic sank in 1912. She was built to meet the demand of cruise liner travel. She was an ambitious machine and some would say over ambitious. Edwardian England, the Empire was at it's height. So I would definitely say around this time entrepreneur's and the big cruise liner companies could see the potential and grandeur of transatlantic ocean going travel.

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Some very good answers. I can only add that, although global air travel started in the 1930's, it was very expensive until the advent of the jet age. Even so, it was not until the advent of wide bodied jets, like the Boeing 747 (introduced in 1970), that air travel became more economic than sea travel.

RR

To cross the Atlantic on a ship - go to Cunard.

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