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Welcome
to the Ocean Liner Virtual
Museum (Est. 2005) - the only online museum in the world dedicated to
telling
the inspiring story of the ocean liners and ocean travel. In our
website we hope to give you a brief insight into the rich diversity of
companies and ships that sailed the oceans of the world during the
heyday of the ocean liners. As a virtual
museum we are accessible to everyone around the world 24 hours a day
via the wonderful technology that is the Internet. This of course
assuming that you have a computer and access to the Internet. But you
obviously do, otherwise you would not have reached this website and be
reading this! We
hope you enjoy your experience with us today and look forward to
welcoming you to the Ocean Liner Virtual Museum again very soon.
Click on the museum
facade above to enter the site
Please
note: The images of buildings and interiors on this website do
not depict or portray the Ocean Liner Virtual Museum. As, by its very
nature being a virtual museum, it does not physically exist. Therefore
the actual locations shown in these images should not be confused as
being the Ocean Liner Virtual Museum.
This
Website is developed using historical information researched from a
wide variety of sources, including books, magazines and websites etc
too numerous to mention or credit individually. While we try our very
best to ensure that any apparent "copyrights" are
not breached, due to limited time and resources we cannot always
guarantee that inadvertently mistakes may occur. But should such
inadvertent mistakes come to light we will do our best to cooperate.
Unfortunately we cannot guarantee to give credit to all information
sources used. We hope you understand.
The Internet was designed
and created as a place independent of
governments, free from any aspect of control, and where freedom of
speech reigns supreme and it will probably always remain like this.
Unfortunately we cannot uninvent the internet and we must face facts
and accept that in today's globalised modern world, we will have less
and less control over what is said and put on the internet. While I do
sympathise with those who wish to hold back this technological change
and resolutely protect to the full their "copyright" over material. Sadly, with respect, I think that they do
not understand the realities
of the modern technological, internet dominated world. Frankly it is
inevitable that we cannot always guarantee that all copyrights will be
protected resolutely on the internet anymore. We can try our very best
but to police comprehensively the complete protection of all copyrights
on the internet is nigh on impossible. Even global corporations are
having trouble controlling the internet, so how us individuals can
expect to control and police it I fail to see. For every website that
is notified successfully of an inadvertent copyright protection breach
there will inevitably be billions out there that continue to use
perhaps unauthorised material. I am sorry if that seems a gloomy
prediction, but I fear that this is a reality and a fact of life now
and we must accept and resign ourselves to the realities of today's
modern communication and internet age in the 21st century.
This
website does not intend to infringe any copyright and all reasonable
steps are taken to ensure this to the best of our ability with limited
resources. It is believed that all the information contained in this
website, apart from those articles written by the author, are freely
available within the public domain or freely given for use on this
website. All information on this website is purely intended to help
promote the story of the ocean liners to a wider audience and to
maritime enthusiasts and is entirely not-for-profit and is not intended
for commercial gain. We warmly welcome any donations of photographs or
information to this website on the basis that no financial reward is
asked for or given as this website is purely for charitable
not-for-profit purposes.
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