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Compendium of the World’s Passenger Ships
My blog contains mini-histories and photos of 2200 ships loaded in a random order. It is a data listing of liners, ferries, cruise and troop ships; every passenger carrying ship over 10000 tons dating from 1858 to the newbuilds of today.
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No.1663 Freedom of the Seas floated out 2005
154,407GT for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line from Aker Finnyards, Turku IMO: 9304033 Image attribution: Hese Kautiainen & John Henry Rigaud
No.1662 Finnstar launched in 2005
45,923 Finnlines O/Y from Fincantieri, Castellammare IMO: 9319442 Image attribution: Claus Gaser, Malte Classens & Igor Dilo
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Ro-pax
Tagged Castellammare, fincantieri, Finnlines, Finnstar, IMO: 9319442
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No.1661 Mersey Viking launched in 2005
27,510GT for Stena Line A/B from Cantiere Navale Visentini, Porto Viro IMO: 9329851 Mersey Seaways 2010 DFDS Seaways Stena Mersey 2011 Stena Line Stena Baltica 2021 Stena Line Image attribution: Joseph Collinson The stretched Stena Baltica – image by Robin Rantala
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Ro-pax
Tagged Cantiere Navale Visentini, DFDS Seaways, IMO: 9329851, Mersey Seaways, Mersey Viking, Porto Viro, Stena, Stena Baltica, Stena Mersey
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No.883 Oxfordshire launched in 1955
21,618grt for Bibby Line from Fairfield, Glasgow IMO 5267732 Fairstar 1964 Fairstar Shipping Corp (Sitmar) – later with P&O Australia Ripa 1997 Breakers Scrapped Alang 1997 As a troopship was the running mate, not sister ship, of British India’s Nevasa … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Alang, Bibby Line, Fairfield Glasgow, Fairstar, IMO 5267732, Nevasa, Oxfordshire, P&O Australia, Ripa, Sitmar
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No.893 Baudouinville launched in 1957
13,922grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge by Cockerill, Hoboken (Belgium) Cathay 1961 P&O Line Kengshin 1976 Republic of China Shanghai 1978 Republic of China Reported to be scrapped in China in 1996 and deleted off registry in 2007 Image attribution: Trevor … Continue reading
No.210 Katori Maru launched in 1913
10,513grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed Sarawak December 1941 by the Dutch submarine HNLMS K XIV Image attribution: Walter E Frost
Posted in Japanese, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Katori Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, Sarawak, torpedoed
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No.209 Gallia launched 1913
14,966grt for Cie Sudatlantique from Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne Torpedoed by U 35 off Sardinia 1916 France’s worst maritime disaster of the war
No.208 Lutetia launched in 1913
14,561grt for Cie Sudatlantique by Penhoët, St Nazaire Scrapped in Blyth 1938 Sister of the ill-fated Gallia OCEANIA or NEPTUNIA, CONTE GRANDE & LUTETIA Buenos Aires
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Blyth, Cie Sudatlantique, Lutetia, Penhoët, St Nazaire
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No.207 Alsatian launched in 1913
18,485grt for Allan Line from Beardmore, Glasgow Empress of France 1919 Canadian Pacific Scrapped in Dalmuir 1934 Image from George Duncan
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Allan line, Alsatian, Beardmore, Canadian Pacific, Dalmuir, Empress of France, Glasgow
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