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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.546 Champlain launched in 1931
28,124grt for CGT French Line by Penhoët, St Nazaire Mined La Pallice 1940 Image copyright: Daryl LeBlanc and Steve Walker Color
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged CGT, Champlain, French Line, La Pallice, Mined, Penhoet, St Nazaire
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No.596 Circassia launched in 1937
11,137grt for Anchor Line by Fairfield, Glasgow Scrapped in Alicante 1966
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Alicante, Anchor Line, Circassia, Fairfield, Glasgow
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No.466 Nieuw Zeeland launched in 1928
10,906grt for Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij from Rotterdamsche DD Mij Torpedoed by U380 in the Mediterranean 1942; not the U407 in many publications Bridge photo 21 July 1930
No.922 Funchal launched & in service in 1961
10,031grt for Empresa Insulana from Helsingor Skibsc, Helsingor Laid up Lisbon IMO: 5124162 More details of her 60 year career at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Funchal Image attribution: Erik Ask, Vitor Francisco, Tony Davis & a recent photo from Luis Miguel Correia
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Empresa Insulana, Funchal, Helsingor, Lisbon
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No.495 Campana launched in 1929
10,816grt for Société Générale de Transports Maritimes (SGTM) from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Rio Jachal 1943 Argentina Campana 1946 SGTM Irpinia 1955 Sicula Oceanica Scrapped in La Spezia 1983 IMO: 5163675
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Argentina, Campana, Irpinia, La Spezia, Newcastle, Rio Jachal, SGTM, Sicula Oceanica, Swan Hunter
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No.496 Western Prince launched in 1929
10,926grt for Furness, Withy & Co from Napier & Miller, Glasgow Torpedoed by U96 off Orkney in 1940 A single photo, plus a model of her identical sister Northern Prince. Another sister Southern Prince became the ANNA C
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Furness Withy, Glasgow, Napier & Miller, Orkney, torpedoed, Western Prince
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No.1840 Mein Schiff 4 launched in 2014
99,526GT for TUI Cruises from Meyer Turku, Turku Image from Capo Franz, Samt Mendher & Celso Hdez
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Mein Schiff 4, Meyer Turku, TUI Cruises, Turku
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No.1940 Spectrum of the Seas floated out 25 Feb 2019
169,379GT for Royal Caribbean International from Meyer Werft, Papenburg IMO: 9778856 Image attribution: Andreas Depping, Meyer Werft & Dennis Mortimer
No.1800 Spirit of France launched in 2011
47,592GT for P&O Ferries from STX Finland, Rauma My photo and Ian Squirrell
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged P&O Ferries, Rauma, Spirit of France, STX Finland
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No.2024 Havila Pollux floated out 12 Dec 2021
15812GT for Havila Kystruten by Tersan, Turkey IMO: 9873761 Images from Erlend Karlson, Geir Myklebust & Greg Maunder
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Havila Kystruten, Havila Pollux, Tersan, Turkey
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