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Yes, passenger ships and ferries were more common than today. When my mum went to Australia for school in the 1950s she went by ship.

• paimoe 2y ago
  This sounds like a "back in my day I had to take a ship to school" bit
  • ghaff 2y ago
    Ships were obviously much more common given there’s basically one trans-Atlantic ocean liner these days.
    • tim333 2y ago
      Yeah a lot of it was killed by cheap flights.
      • ghaff 2y ago
        And even before flights got generally cheaper, it's hard for most people to justify taking almost a week longer, between a very limited number of destinations, on a pretty limited schedule.
• jajko 2y ago
  Even in 60s when big himalayan expeditions were done, people travelled by big boats starting usually in India, for a month or two. Then got half of their equipment lost (so this part didn't change that much).