• the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered?

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Ocean liner

• Italy's Cantieri Riuniti dell' Adriatico shipyard built two ocean liners named MS Stockholm for the Swedish American Line between 1936 and 1941, neither of which operated commercially?
• SS Rajputana, a P&O liner traveling between Plymouth, England and Lahore, British India, was converted into a cruiser and eventually sunk by a German U-boat west of Iceland?
• after sinking the British ocean liner SS Dwinsk in June 1918, the German submarine U-151 remained in the area and used the survivors in seven lifeboats as a lure in order to try to sink additional Allied ships?
• besides mechanical failures, fuel leaks and collisions, the passenger liner SS Iberia also suffered multiple fires and blackouts, and twice grounded in the Suez Canal, before she was finally decommissioned in 1972?
• during World War I, a torpedo struck the ocean liner SS Kroonland, (pictured) but failed to explode?
• journalist Albert Londres was one of the 54 people killed in the fire onboard the French ocean liner Georges Philippar on 15 May 1932?
• several US Navy WWII troop transports, such as USS Hermitage, USS Monticello and USS Lejeune, were former ocean liners that were seized from the enemy?
• the cruise ship MS Astor (pictured) was ordered in 1985 as an ocean liner for Safmarine's UK–South Africa service, but the service was abandoned before the ship was completed?
• the Dutch ocean liner Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft caught fire before entering service, in service, and on her way to the scrapyard?
• the ocean liner SS Leonardo da Vinci was constructed in 1960 with provisions to be nuclear-powered?