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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.727 Marine Marlin launched in 1945
12,420grt for US Maritime Commission by Kaiser, Vancouver Green Bay 1965 Central Gulf SS Corp Sunk by Vietcong 1971, later scrapped in Hong Kong http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22201.htm
Posted in Class C4-S-A1 (30 ships), Navy Ship, passenger ship
Tagged Green Bay, Hong Kong, Kaiser, Marine Marlin, sunk, US Maritime Commission, Vancouver, Vietcong
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No.728 Marine Phoenix launched in 1945
12,420 US Maritime Commission from Kaiser, Vancouver Mohawk 1967 Mohawk Shipping Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1979 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22195.htm
Posted in Class C4-S-A1 (30 ships), Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Kaiser, Marine Phoenix, Mohawk, US Maritime Commission, Vancouver
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No.306 Wolverine State launched in 1920
10,533 US Shipping Board from New York SB Corp, Camden President Harrison 1922 Dollar Line Kachidoki Maru 1941 Japanese Transport Torpedoed by US Submarines in 1944. Tragic wartime episodes for both the US & Japanese operators of the vessel. Image … Continue reading
No.319 Windsor Castle launched in 1921
18,967grt for Union-Castle Line by John Brown, Clydebank Torpedo bombed off Algiers 1943 Modified in the 1930s, new bow, funnels replaced with 2 larger ones and new lifeboat davits.Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Algiers, Clydebank, John Brown, torpedoed, Union Castle, Windsor Castle
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No.371 Westphalia launched in 1923
11,343grt for Hamburg-America Line from Howaldt Kiel, Kiel General Artigas 1930 Hamburg-South America Line Bombed Hamburg 1943 Image attribution: Edson Lucas on Ship Spotting
No.372 Philoctetes launched in 1922
11,446grt for Blue Funnel Line by Scott´s, Greenock Scrapped in Newport 1948
Posted in passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Blue Funnel Line, Newport, Philoctetes, Scott's Greenock
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No.373 Sarpedon launched as 1923
11,321grt for Blue Funnel Line from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead Scrapped in Newport 1953 Image attribution: Trove Australia National Library via Gordy Ross
No.374 Patroclus launched in 1923
11,314grt for Blue Funnel Line from Scott´s, Greenock Torpedoed by U 99 off Ireland on 1940
Posted in Navy Ship, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Blue Funnel Line, Patroclus, Scott's Greenock, torpedoed, U99
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The World's Passenger Ships 