(from the article `ship`) ...out, the finalratchet in the expansion of the passenger liner. What came of that undertaking was the most interesting, and by wide agreement the ... ...`Leviathan,` for many years the largest ship afloat; the 80,000-ton `Queen Mary` and `Queen Elizabeth,` giant Cunarders o... Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/n/51