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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.1559 Visby launched in 2001
29,746grt for Rederi AB Gotland by Guangzhou Shipyard Visborg 2022 Rederi AB Gotland IMO: 9223784 Image copyright: Marko Hanninen, Manfred Popall & Vera Zec Deskovic on Marine Traffic
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Guangzhou Shipyard, Rederi AB Gotland, Visborg, Visby
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No.1059 Napoleon launched in 1976
14,918grt for CGT Méditerranée by Dubigeon-Normandie, Nantes Berkane 2002 Comarit Ferries Scrapped Aliaga Turkey 2014 IMO 7401215 Image copyright: Malcolm Cranfield Photo by Andreas Sporri
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Aliaga, Berkane, CGT Mediterranee, Comarit, Dubigeon-Normandie, Nantes, Napoleon, Turkey
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No.559 Normandie launched in 1932
83,423grt for CGT French Line by Penhoët, St Nazaire Lafayette 1941 US Navy Fire New York 1942, Scrapped Port Newark 1946 Normandie at Plymouth Lighthouse, 1935. Image copyright: Steve Walker Color
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged CGT, French Line, Lafayette, New York, Normandie, Port Newark, US Navy
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No.59 Minnetonka launched in 1901
13,398grt for Atlantic Transport Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by U 64 Malta 1918 (Shakespeare Cliff is in Dover)
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Atlantic Transport, Belfast, Dover, Harland & Wolff, Minnetonka, torpedoed, U64
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No.989 Shin Sakura Maru launched 1971
13,082grt for Nihon Sangyo Junko from Mitsubishi, Kobe Scrapped 2001 IMO 7129087 Image attribution: John Kent & Geoffrey Watson
Posted in passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Kobe, Mitsubishi, Nihon Sangyo, Shun Sakura Maru
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No.1089 Staffetta Ligure launched in 1979
12,167grt for Tirrenia di Navigazione by Italcantieri SpA, Genoa Caralis 1988 Tirrenia di Navigazione Fudi 2000 P.T. Pelayran Nasional Scrapped Surabaya 2012 IMO: 7601994 Image attribution: Simonwp, Carlo Martinelli & Guido
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Ro-pax
Tagged Caralis, Fudi, Genoa, Italcantieri, Pelayran Nasional, PELNI, Staffetta Ligure, Surabaya, Tirrenia
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No.1489 Olympic Voyager launched in 1999
24391GT for Royal Olympic Cruises from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Olympia Voyager 2001 Royal Olympic Cruises Voyager 2004 Iberojet Grand Voyager 2005 Iberocruceros Costa Voyager 2013 Costa Crociere SpA Chinese Taishan 2014 Bohai Cruise Company IMO: 9183506 Image attribution: Andreas … Continue reading
No.1558 Superfast VIII launched in 2001
30,285GT for Superfast Ferries by Howaldswerke Deutsche, Kiel Stena Superfast VIII 2011 Stena Line IMO: 9198953 Image copyright: Sasha Grimm on Marine Traffic and Ian Collard
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Deutsche, Howaldswerke, Kiel, Stena Line, Stena Superfast, Superfast Ferries, Superfast VIII
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No.1058 Kronprins Harald launched in 1975
12,750grt for Anders Jahre by Nobiskrug, Rendsburg Hamburg 1987 Det Forenede D/S Admiral of Scandinavia 1997 Det Forenede D/S (DFDS) Caribbean Express 2003 Ferries del Caribe Scrapped Alang 2011 IMO 7400778 Image copyright: Wolfgang Barnitzke
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Admiral of Scandinavia, Alang, Anders Jahre, Caribbean Express, DFDS, Ferries de Caribe, Hamburg, Kronprins Harald, Nobiskrug, Rendsburg
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No.558 Oceania launched in 1932
19,507grt for Cosulich Soc Triestina di Nav by CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Torpedoed Mediterranean 1941 by HMS Upholder, the same day as her sister Neptunia Image from Fausto Iacono
