FROM CLIPPERS TO LINERS

T he 19th century has seen development of fast and regular links between continents thanks to tall sailing ships that are the clippers then the cape-horners.

First conceived as sailing ships equipped of an auxiliary engine, the steamers will before long free from sail. The steam turbine will them preside over the birth of giant liners that around 1900 assert the transoceanic traffic .

In parallel, ferries will know the same progress that the steamers as the important innovation of the access ramp.