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This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage. This timeline reflects the largest extant passenger ship in the world at any given time. If a given ship was superseded by another, scrapped, or lost at sea, it is then succeeded. Some records for tonnage outlived the ships that set them - notably the SS Great Eastern, and RMS Queen Elizabeth. The term "largest passenger ship" has evolved over time to also include ships by length as supertankers built by the 1970s were over 400 metres (1,300 ft) long. In the modern era the term has gradually fallen out of use in favor of "largest cruise ship" as the industry has shifted to cruising rather than transatlantic ocean travel.
^The tonnage was increased on Normandie in August 1936 to reclaim the title of "largest ship" from the Queen Mary.
^Although Queen Elizabeth was completed on 2 March 1940 as an ocean liner, she was converted into a troop ship due to the outbreak of World War II. She became the largest ship in the world in 1942 when SS Normandie burned and sank at her moorings. Transatlantic service was not resumed until after the war ended, and Queen Elizabeth officially entered into passenger service on 16 October 1946.
^SS France increased her tonnage in 1980, when she was refurbished into a cruise ship. Her final size peaked at 76,049 GRT in 1990. She was the last ship on this list to be measured by "GRT", as the term was changed to "GT" on 18 July 1994.
^Freedom of the Seas never held the title of "largest passenger ship" after 2007. While she was later extended to match her sister ship Liberty of the Seas (in 2015), by this time the title had passed on to Oasis of the Seas.
^Oasis was initially launched at 225,282 GT. This was tied a year later by Allure of the Seas, although the latter was 50 mm (2.0 in) longer.Oasis of the Seas was expanded to 226,838 GT in November 2019.
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^Hereward Philip Spratt (1951). Transatlantic Paddle Steamers. Brown, Son & Ferguson. p. 36. At the time of her launch, the "British Queen" was the largest vessel afloat
^Robinson, Robb (January 2009). "The Cookman Story: Reform in Hull and the United States"(PDF). FAR HORIZONS – to the ends of the Earth. Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull. Retrieved 27 December 2009. In March 1841 the liner, SS President, then reputedly the largest steamship in the world, disappeared without trace in the vast tracts of the still wintry Atlantic, sometime after leaving New York en route for Liverpool. The SS President was the first steamship to founder on the transatlantic run and there was universal lamentation for the 136 crew and passengers.
^"S/S City of New York (3), Inman Line". www.norwayheritage.com. Retrieved 18 September 2019. At the time of her launch the City of New York was the largest passenger steamer afloat.
^ abWatts, Philip (1911). "Ship" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 880–970, see page 970. ....arrangements are made for fitting up fast vessels such as the "Mauretania" and "Lusitania" with a number of 6-in...guns for service as merchant cruisers in time of war, when they would be used as ocean-going scouts, or for the protection of trade routes
^ abPeter C. Smith (2008). Midway: Dauntless Victory. Pen & Sword Books. ISBN9781848847057. The French Transatlantic liner Normandie (71,300 tons) was the world's largest ship when built, and, although surpassed by 1942 by the British liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in tonnage, was still the longest vessel afloat at 1,029 feet overall.
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