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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.744 President Wilson launched in 1946
15,359grt for American President Line by Bethlehem Shipyard, Alameda, California Oriental Empress 1973 Oceanic Cruise Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1984 President Wilson February 1, 1971 Albert Groom ORIENTAL EMPRESS photo by Chris Howell
No.745 Athenic launched in 1946
15,187grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1969 Image attribution: William Hall Raine National Library NZ, George Wiseman & Marc Piché
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Athenic, Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Shaw Savill & Albion
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No.746 Kampala launched in 1946
10,304grt for British India Line from Stephen, Glasgow Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1971 Image attribution: Trevor Jones
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged British India, Kampala, Stephen Glasgow
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No.747 Media launched in 1946
15,465grt for Cunard-White Star Line from John Brown, Clydebank Flavia 1961 Cogedar Flavian 1982 Flavian Shipping Lavia 1986 Lavia Shipping Fire 1989, scrapped Kaohsiung Image from: John Gibbard & Panama Maru Naoyuki
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Clydebank, Cogedar, Cunard-White Star Line, Fire, Flavia, Flavian, John Brown, Lavia, Media
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No.651 James O’Hara launched on 1941
11,971grt for US Army by Seattle-Tacoma SB, Tacoma Scrapped Portland, OR 1968 Capacity Troops: 2,200 https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/03/03090.htm Underway in the Atlantic 8 June 1943, photographed from a blimp of squadron ZP-14, based at Naval Air Station Weeksville, North Carolina (USA)
Posted in Class C3-S-A1, Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged James O'Hara, Portland, Seattle-Tacoma SM, US Army
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No.653 Laid down as Mormacmail 1942
12,053grt for Moore-McCormack Lines by Seattle Tacoma SB Corp, Tacoma but launched as an aircraft carrier for US Navy HMS Tracker 1943 Royal Navy Corrientes 1949 Cia Argentina de Nav Dodero Scrapped in Antwerp 1964
No.655 Aki Maru launched in 1942
11,409grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed by US submarine Trigger off Luzon 1944 Image attribution: Ueda Kihachiro
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Aki Maru, Luzon, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, USS Trigger
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No.656 Gulfport launched in 1942
12,097grt for US Government from Ingalls, Pascagoula David C. Shanks 1943 US Army Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1973 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22180.htm
Posted in Class C3-S-A1, Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship, US Army
Tagged David C Shanks, Gulfport, Ingalls, Pascagoula, US Army, US Government
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No.657 Pascagoula launched in 1942
12,093grt for US Government from Ingalls, Pascagoula George W. Goethals 1942 US Army Scrapped in Castellon 1970 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22182.htm
Posted in Class C3-S-A1, Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Castellon, George W Goethals, Ingalls, Pascagoula, US Army, US Government
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