08-18-2008, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by recab
As I wrote earlier today, the QV can not be called a Liner.
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Sure it can! 
An ocean liner is a ship designed to transport people from one seaport to another
along regular long-distance maritime routes according to a schedule.
Liners may also carry cargo, and may sometimes be used for
other purposes (e.g. for pleasure cruises or as troopships).
Shipping lines are companies engaged in shipping passengers and cargo,
often on established routes and schedules. Regular scheduled voyages
on a set route are called "line voyages"
and vessels (passenger or cargo) trading on these routes to a
timetable are called liners.
The alternative to liner trade is "tramping" whereby vessels are notified on an ad-hoc basis
as to the availabilityof a cargo to be transported.
(In older usage, liner also referred to ships of the line,
that is, line-of-battle ships, but that usage is now rare.)
The term "Ocean Liner" has come to be used interchangeably with "Passenger Liner",
although it can refer to a cargo liner or cargo-passenger liner. |
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