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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.1977 MSC Seashore floated out 20 Aug 2020
169,380GT for MSC Cruises from Fincantieri, Monfalcone IMO: 9843792 Image attribution: Artem Artem, Emmanuel Almonte, Franco Sasson & Stanley Barker from Marine Traffic
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged fincantieri, IMO: 9843792, Monfalcone, MSC Cruises, MSC Seashore
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No.1569 Europa Palace launched in 2001
36,825GT for Minoan Line from Fincantieri, Sestri Ponente Amsicora 2012 Tirrenia Mykonos Palace 2018 Grimaldi Cia di Navigazione Festos Palace 2020 Minoan Line IMO: 9220342 Image copyright: Marios Prekas Image from Tony Davis
No.1069 Habib launched in 1977
11,179grt for Cotunav by Schiffbau Werft, Rendsburg Scrapped Alang 2013 Photo by David Thorn image from Malcolm Cranfield Image from Carlo Martinelli
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Alang, Cotuna, Habib, Rendsburg, Schiffbau Werft, tunisia Ferries
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No.569 Potsdam launched in 1935
17,528grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Empire Jewel 1945 Ministry of Transport Empire Fowey 1946 Ministry of Transport Safina-E-Hujjaj 1960 Pan-Islamic SS Co (and a regular caller in Aden) Scrapped Gadani Beach 1976 Potsdam at Suez Empire … Continue reading
No.69 Noordam launched in 1901
12,531grt for Holland-America Line Harland & Wolff, Belfast Kungsholm 1922 Chartered to Swedish-America Line Noordam 1924 Holland-America Line Scrapped Netherlands 1928 Image copyright Kungsholm: http://Captainalbert.com Chartered for just under two years to the Swedish America Line
No.478 Duchess of York launched 1928
20,021grt for Canadian Pacific from John Brown, Clydebank Bombed Oporto 1943
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Bombed, Canadian Pacific, Clydebank, Duchess of York, John Brown, Oporto
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No.978 Princess of Nova launched in 1971
10,109grt for Canadian Pacific from St John Shipbuilding & Dry Docking Co. St John Princess of Acadia 1971 CN Marine Inc IMO: 7039567 Scrapped Port Colborne 2017 Image attribution: Mac Mackay
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Canadian Pacific, CN Marine, IMO: 7039567, Port Colborne, Princess of Acadia, Princess of Nova, St John SB
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No.1478 Excelsior launched 1999
39,739GT for Grimaldi Cia di Navigazione from Nuovi Cantineri, Apuania/ Sestri Cantineri Nav, Genoa IMO: 9184419 Image attribution: John Pitcher, Vladislav Pantyukhin, Giuliano Merlo & Dino Mirra
No.1568 Nggapulu launched in 2001
14,715GT for Indonesian Government (PELNI) by Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg IMO: 9226499 Image copyright: Lakhtikov Dmitriy Photo by Husni
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Indonesia, Indonesian Government, Jos L Meyer, Nggalulu, Papenburg, PELNI
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No.1068 Dana Anglia launched in 1977
14,400grt for Det Forenede D/S (DFDS) by Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Aalborg Duke of Scandinavia 2002 Det Forenede D/S Pont L’Abbe 2006 Brittany Ferries Moby Corse 2009 Moby Lines Santa Cruz 2025 IMO: 7615414 Image by Bob Scott Image by Simonwp Extraordinary … Continue reading
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Aalborg, Aalborg Vaerft, Brittany Ferries, Dana Anglia, DFDS, Duke of Scandinavia, IMO: 7615414, Moby Corse, Moby Lines, Pont L'Abbe
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