As of 2026-10-12, SS Conte di Savoia tops the list with 50 km/h.
- #1 SS Conte di Savoia — 50 km/h
ship
SS Conte di Savoia was an Italian ocean liner built in 1932 at the Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Trieste. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #2 NRP Tejo — 50 km/h
1901 Tejo-class destroyer
Tejo was Portugal's first destroyer, and the first destroyer to be built in Portugal. It was the only ship of its class to be built. Launching in 1904, it served with the Portuguese Navy until 1927. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #3 SS Europa — 50 km/h
ship built in 1930
SS Europa, later SS Liberté IMO 5607332, was an ocean liner built for the German shipping company Norddeutsche Lloyd (NDL) to work the transatlantic sea route. Launched in 1928, she and her sister ship, Bremen, were the two most advanced, high-speed steam turbine ocean vessels of their day, with both earning the Blue Riband. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #4 SS Andrea Doria — 47 km/h
ocean liner
SS Andrea Doria was a transatlantic ocean liner of the Italian Line, put into service in 1953. She is widely known from the extensive media coverage of her sinking on July 26, 1956, which included the rescue of 1,660 of her 1,706 passengers and crew. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #5 SS Sussex — 46 km/h
ship
SS Sussex was a cross-Channel passenger ferry, built in 1896 for the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LBSCR). After the LBSCR came to a co-operation agreement with the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'État Français, she transferred to their fleet under a French flag. Sussex became the focus of an international incident when she was severely damaged by a torpedo from a German U-boat in 1916 and at least 50 passengers died. After the war she was repaired and sold to Greece in 1919,... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #6 SS Deutschland — 43 km/h
ship
SS Deutschland was a passenger liner built in Stettin and launched on 10 January 1900 for the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) of Germany. She was officially the second ocean liner to have four funnels on the transatlantic route, the first being Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of 1897. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #7 SS Pasteur — 43 km/h
turbine steam ship, sunk in 1980
SS Pasteur was a steam turbine ocean liner built for Compagnie de Navigation Sud-Atlantique. She later sailed as Bremen for Norddeutscher Lloyd. In the course of her career, she sailed for 41 years under four names and six countries' flags. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #8 RMS Aquitania — 43 km/h
Cunard Line ocean liner, also used as a merchant cruiser and troop transport
RMS Aquitania was a British ocean liner operated by the Cunard Line from 1914 to 1950. She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown & Company in Clydebank, Scotland. She was launched on 21 April 1913 and sailed on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 30 May 1914. She was given the title of Royal Mail Ship (RMS) like many other Cunard ocean liners since she carried the royal mail on many of her voyages. Aquitania was the third in Cunard Line's grand trio of express... Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #9 SS Belgic — 42 km/h
SS Belgic was a steamship of the White Star Line. The first of the company's four ships bearing this name, she was first assigned along with her sister ship the Gaelic on the route to France and South America, a new route of the company. This service was short-lived, however, and at the end of the year, the Belgic was the last White Star Line steamer to serve on this route. She was then moved to the North Atlantic route. Read more on Wikipedia.
Wikidata - #10 RMS Pendennis Castle — 42 km/h
ocean liner launched in 1958
RMS Pendennis Castle was a Royal Mail Ship, passenger and cargo liner operated by the Union-Castle Line. The vessel served the Union-Castle Line from 1959–1976 on a regular route between the UK and South Africa for the Southampton to Las Palmas, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, East London and Durban "Cape Mail" service. After her withdrawal from service and subsequent sale by the Union-Castle Line in 1976, she was re-named consecutively Ocean Queen, Sinbad, then Sinbad I, however she never... Read more on Wikipedia.
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