Dialling back time in the SS Rotterdam’s engine room. Credit: Alamy Her days crossing the Atlantic ended in the early ’70s, and she spent decades as a cruise ship until 2000, when her then ...

Astoria has reached the final scrapyard where she will end her days after more than 70 years of ocean liner service.

The SS Rotterdam, the third biggest passenger liner in the world (in 1975), ... The Jazz Ship leaves New York for Nassau with some of the greatest names in jazz aboard.