How to get to Britain during the Republic of China

The end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century were the golden ages of maritime passenger transport. There were no planes at that time, and there were many immigrants from Europe to America and other parts of the world. Therefore, passenger ships were much more common at that time than now, and heavy casualties occurred from time to time. During this period, the number of deaths on British passenger ships alone reached 700-800 every year.

Ocean-going aircraft carriers were developed in the 1940s. At that time, it was a mixed cargo and passenger ship. Later, due to the increase of passenger and cargo flow, passenger and freight gradually separated and became a large ocean liner that only transported passengers. Ocean liners used to be called "mail ships" because they carried mail at the same time.

Large ocean-going passenger ships are generally more than 10000 gross tonnage, with a speed of more than 20 nautical miles per hour, with 2-3 cabins and many public places on board. After the appearance of long-range jet passenger planes in the late 1950s, they gradually stole the customers of ocean-going passenger ships. Because the construction and maintenance cost of large high-speed passenger ships is extremely high, and the speed is much lower than that of airplanes, which does not meet the needs of modern economy, such ships have declined for more than ten years.

The large-scale ocean-going passenger liner route disappeared completely in the world in June 65438 +09771October 65438. Coastal passenger and cargo ships are generally less than 6000 gross tons, and the speed is 14 ~ 18 nautical miles per hour. There are many classes of shipping space and large cargo capacity. The Long March, a passenger and cargo ship off the coast of China, has a total tonnage of 5,926 tons, a length of 124 meters, six decks, 9000 horsepower and a speed of 18 nautical miles per hour, and can carry about 900 passengers and 2000 tons of cargo.