The first ships passed through in 1914.
That was a European construction, even before the first ships went back to Hawaii.
Introduced in the late 1950s, the first ships could carry 480 twenty-foot equivalent (TEU) containers.
The first ships ordered were the Olympic and Titanic; the Britannic was added later.
The Titanic was one of the first ships in history to issue an SOS.
The first ships to sail the lakes were classic European schooners, sloops and brigs.
The first ships leave at 10 A.M. and there are boats every half hour.
The deep-sea port set in jade-colored waters awaits the first ships bearing crude from the Middle East.
In 1952, A. P. Moeller-Maersk built the first ships designed for the express purpose of carrying those containers.
The first ships to visit the pole were the U.S. nuclear submarines Nautilus (1958), which remained submerged, and Skate (1959), which surfaced through the ice.
The conversion is part of the company's plans to offer the first ships registered in the United States in 50 years.
