>>1476535The Steamship Lobby was a powerful political force in deciding american immigration policy but with immigration heavily curbed in 1924. It is true many ships could survive this, but it marked the declined of the ocean liner. The death blow came when the first commercial trans Atlantic flights starting in 1939 and liners went the way of the dodo. Planes are primarily much cheaper, much much faster than ships. There is literary no reason beside risk, which was quickly mitigated with the rapid improvement of technology in WW2, to not use a plane.
Why couldn't they coexist?
In sense they do, but the relative strengths of these ships compared to plains, leaves them in a position of only transferring large volumes of cargo. which is something that at its peak, with numerous of larger, transporting more cargo than ever before.
thread over.
What do you guys think of the various wack-jobs trying to bring back cargo schooners?
Its interesting subject to me, though i think its commercial success will be very limited at best. They are surprising not labor insensitive with the requirement for crew being a Captain, cook and one man per mask.
