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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.618 Ancon launched in 1938
10,021grt for Panama Railroad by Bethlehem Steel Co, Quincy State of Maine 1963 Maine Maritime Academy Scrapped in Wilmington 1973 ANCON during WW2 Post-WWII image of SS Ancon returning to the Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA., 13 June 1947, after being … Continue reading
No.619 Queen Elizabeth, launched in 1938
at 83,673 gross registered tons for Cunard-White Star Line by John Brown, Clydebank Entered regular transatlantic service with Cunard Line service in 1946 Elizabeth 1969 Queen Ltd Seawise University 1970 Seawise Foundations (CY Tung) Fire at Hong Kong 1972, later … Continue reading
No.620 Pretoria Castle launched in 1938
17,392 Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Warwick Castle 1946 Union-Castle Line Scrapped in Barcelona 1962 Carrier HMS Pretoria Castle in WW2 Warwick Castle in Aden
No.884 Gripsholm launched in 1956
23,191grt for Swedish America Line from Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente Navarino 1974 MA Karageorgis Samantha 1983 Multiship Italia Regent Sea 1984 Regent Cruises Sea 1997 Antonios Lelakis Sank en route breakers 2001 Image attribution: Bob Scott, Gordon Dalzell & Rick Garcia
No.234 Johann Heinrich Burchard launched in 1914
19,980grt for Hamburg-America Line from Tecklenborg, Geestemunde Limburgia 1920 Royal Holland Lloyd Reliance 1922 United American Line Reliance 1926 Hamburg-America Line Fire at Hamburg 1938, scrapped Bremerhaven Image attribution: Steve Walker Color RELIANCE in Copenhagen in 1933 Franz Grasser worked … Continue reading
No.2053 Seven Seas Grandeur floated out 2 Feb 2023
54,000GT for Regent Seven Seas from Fincantieri, Ancona IMO: 9877444 Image attribution: Shippax, Vitor Francicso, Oliver Kessler & Claudio Ritossa
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged fincantieri, IMO: 9877444, Regent Seven Seas, Sestri Ponente, Seven Seas Grandeur
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No.1146 Ciudad de Valencia launched in 1982
11,513grt for Cia Trasmediterranea from Union Naval de Levante, Valencia IMO: 7915802 Mary The Queen 2009 Romblon Shipping Driven ashore Manila 2015 First 3 – named images from Marine Traffic Image attribution: Manuel Mohedano Torres
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Ashore, Cia Trasmediterranea, Ciudad de Valencia, IMO: 7915802, Manila, Mary The Queen, Romblon, Union Naval de Levante, Valencia
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No.1148 Corse launched in 1982
12,686grt for Soc Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée by Dubigeon-Normandie SA, Nantes IMO: 8003620 Grand Ferry 2018 20805 Karaneh Lines Last position Persian Gulf Image attribution: Carlo Martinelli & Brian on Ship Spotting Grand Ferry photo by Georgios Togias
No.1149 Kapitan Khlebnikov launched in 1982
12,288grt for Quark Expeditions from Wärtsilä, Helsinki IMO: 7824417 Image attribution: Wayne A’Court in New Zealand
Posted in Cruise ship, Expedition, passenger ship
Tagged Helsinki, IMO: 7824417, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Quark Expeditions, Wartsila
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No.421 Berlin launched in 1925
15,286grt for North German Lloyd by Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack Admiral Nakhimov 1949 USSR Collision, sank Black Sea with heavy loss of life 1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Admiral_Nakhimov for a more detailed history, including sinkings in 1945 & 1947. Image attribution: Dragomir Novakovic & … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Admiral Nakhimov, Berlin, Bremer Vulcan, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, sank, USSR, Vegesack
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The World's Passenger Ships 