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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.881 Jadotville launched in 1955
13,724grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Penhoët, St Nazaire Chitral 1961 P&O Line Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1975 Image attribution: Mike Cornwall, Trevor Page, Rik Faulkner
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Chitral, Compagnie Maritime Belge, Jadotville, Kaohsiung, P&O, Penhoet, St Nazaire
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No.841 Maasdam launched in 1952
15,024grt for Holland-America Line from Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam Stefan Batory 1968 Polish Ocean Lines Stefan 1990 Stena A/B Scrapped Aliaga 2000 Image attribution: Ben Ayre, Philippe Brebant & Mike Griffiths
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Aliaga, Fijenoord, Holland America, Maasdam, Polish Ocean Line, Schiedam, stefan, Stefan Batory, Stena, Wilton
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No.181 Demerara launched in 1911
11,484grt for Royal Mail Lines from Harland & Wolff, Belfast 1st July 1917 torpedoed off La Rochelle but reached port and repaired Scrapped in Japan 1933 Image attribution: https://benjidog.co.uk
Posted in passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Demerara, Harland & Wolff, Japan, La Rochelle, royal Mail Line
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No.761 Caronia launched in 1947
34,183grt for Cunard-White Star Line from John Brown, Clydebank Columbia 1968 Universal Line (only for the delivery voyage to Greece) Caribia 1968 Universal Line Sank Guam 1974 whilst being towed to the breakers Image attribution: Beken of Cowes, Steve Walker … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Beken, Caribia, Caronia, Clydebank, Columbia, cunard, Guam, John Brown, Universal
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No.721 Marine Serpent launched in 1945
12,420grt for US Maritime Commission from Kaiser, Vancouver Galveston 1968 Sea Land Service Scrapped Kaohsiung Image attribution: David M. Davis
Posted in troopship
Tagged Glalveston, Kaiser, Kaohsiung, Marine Serpent, Sea Land Service, US Maritime Commission, Vancouver
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No.80 Kaiser Wilhelm II launched in 1902
19,361grt for North German Lloyd by Vulcan, Stettin Agamemnon 1917 US Navy Monticello 1929 US Shipping Board Scrapped Baltimore 1940 Photo from Rich Turnwald USS Agamemnon after World War One in 1919. (Boston Public Library – Leslie Jones)
No.1841 Le Lyrial launched in 2014
10,944GT for Compagnie du Ponent by Fincantieri, Ancona Image attribution: Tony Davis
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged ancona, Compagnie du Ponent, fincantieri, Le Lyrial
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