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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.1899 Viking Orion floated out 2017
47,861GT for Viking Ocean Cruises from Fincantieri, Ancona IMO: 9796250 Image attribution: Wayne A’Court, Johnson Chu and Tony Davis
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged ancona, fincantieri, IMO: 9796250, Viking Ocean Cruises, Viking Orion
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No.1900 Mein Schiff 1, floated out 2017
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged IMO: 9783564, Mein Schiff, Meyer Turku, TUI Cruises
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No.888 Ausonia launched in 1956
11,879grt for ‘Adriatica’ SAN from CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Ivory 2005 Louis Cruise Line Aegean Two 2005 Golden Star Cruises Winner 5 2010 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2010 Image attribution: Simonwp, The late Neven Jerković, Agustin Alapont Castilla & Tony Davis
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Adriatica SAN, Aegean Two, Ausonia, CR dell' Adriatico, Ivory, Louis Cruise Line, Monfalcone, Winner 5
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No.654 HMS Fencer launched in 1942
14,708grt for the Royal Navy by Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco Sydney 1950 Flotta Lauro Roma 1967 Flotta Lauro (replacing the earlier ROMA) Galaxy Queen 1971 Sovereign Cruise Ships Lady Dina 1972 G Kotzovolis Caribia 2 1973 Marimina Shipping … Continue reading
No.904 Windsor Castle launched in 1959
37,640grt for Union-Castle Line from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead Margarita L 1977 Latsis Group Rita 2005 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2005 Image attribution: Trevor Jones, Cyril Gronemeyer, Les Pivnic & Tony Davis
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Static ship
Tagged Alang, Birkenhead, Cammell Laird, Latsis, Margarita, Rita, Union Castle, Windsor Castle
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No.1732 Costa Luminosa launched in 2008
92,720GT for Costa Crociere SpA from Fincantieri, Marghera IMO:9398905 Carnival Luminosa 2022 Carnival Cruise Line Image attribution: David Sky, Giannis Mavronas, Vitor Francisco & Wayne A’Court
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Costa Cruise, Costa Luminosa, fincantieri, IMO: 9398905, Marghera
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No.1691 Baltic Princess launched in 2006
48,915GT for Tallink from Aker Finnyards, Helsinki IMO: 9354284 Image attribution: Christer Gustafsson & Sverre Andreas Rud Baltic Princess by Markus Matilla
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Aker Finnyards, Baltic Princess, Helsinki, IMO: 9354284, Tallink
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No.1692 Fram launched in 2006
11,647grt for Hurtigruten from Fincantieri, Monfalcone IMO: 9370018 Image attribution: David Sky & Tom Gulbrandsen
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged fincantieri, Fram, Hurtigruten, IMO: 9370018, Monfalcone
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No.1693 Star launched in 2006
36,249GT for Tallink from Aker Finnyards, Helsinki IMO: 9364722 Oscar Wilde May 2023 Irish Ferries James Joyce 2024 Irish Ferries Star I 2025 Tallink Image attribution: Trevor Thornton & Wil Weijsters Oscar Wilde by George Holland Oscar Wilde in dry dock … Continue reading
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Tagged Aker Finnyards, Helsinki, IMO: 9364722, Oscar Wilde, Star, Tallink
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