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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.254 Fushimi Maru launched in 1914
10,940grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Husimi Maru 1938 Nippon Yusen KK Torpedoed off Japan 1943
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Fushimi Maru, Husimi Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen, torpedoed
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No.255 Yasaka Maru launched in 1914
10,932grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Kawasaki, Kobe Torpedoed by U38 off Port Said 1915
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Kawasaki, Kobe, Nippon Yusen, Port Said, torpedoed, U38, Yasaka Maru
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No.256 Belgenland launched in 1914
27,132grt for Red Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Belgic 1917 White Star Line Belgenland 1923 Red Star Line Columbia 1935 Atlantic Transport Line Scrapped in Bo’ness 1936 Image from Steve Walker Color Belgic in early service Belgenland leaving … Continue reading
No.257 Ausonia launched in 1915
11,300grt for for Società Italiana di Servizi Marittimi (SITMAR) from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg There were plans to convert her to an aircraft carrier. Never completed, broken up in 1922
No.258 Aotearoa launched in 1915
14,744 grt for Union SS Co of New Zealand by Fairfield, Glasgow HMS Avenger 1916 Royal Navy Torpedoed by UB 69 at Scapa Flow 1917 http://naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-08-HMS_Avenger.htm & The John Oxley Library
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Aotearoa, Fairfield Glasgow, HMS Avenger, New Zealand, Royal Navy, Scapa Flow, torpedoed, UB69, Union SS Co
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No.259 San Gennaro launched in 1915
12,087grt for Sicula Americana from Palmers, Jarrow Colombo 1921 Navigazione Generale Italiana Scuttled Massawa 1941 Painting from George Duncan As a war transport in the Suez Canal
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Colombo, Jarrow, Massawa, Navigazione Generale Italiana, Palmers, San Gennaro, Scuttled, Sicula Americana
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No.260 Esperia launched in 1915
11,398grt for Soc Ital di Servizi Marittimi from Soc Ersercicio Bacini, Riva Trigoso Torpedoed by HMS Unique, Mediterranean 1941 Image attribution: Paolo Piccone, Archivio Stefano Cioglia Cagliari & Rich Turnwald
No.1411 Miyazaki Express launched in 1996
11,931GT for Marine Express from Mitsubishi, Shimonoseki Dharma Ferry V 2022 DLU Ferry IMO: 9145865 Image: Kenro Oshita, Shinichi Awa and rofer.id
Posted in ferry, Japanese, passenger ship
Tagged Dharma Ferry V, DLU Ferry, IMO: 9145865, Marine Express, Mitsubishi, Miyazaki Express, Shimonoseki
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No.1412 Tacoma launched in 1996
12,864GT for State of Washington from Todd Pacific, Seattle IMO: 9133977 Image attribution: Jackie Pritchard & Chas Hitz on Marine Traffic
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged IMO: 9133977, Seattle, State of Washington, Tacoma, Todd Pacific
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The World's Passenger Ships 