154,407GT for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line from Aker Finnyards, Turku IMO: 9304033
Image attribution: Hese Kautiainen & John Henry Rigaud
45,923 Finnlines O/Y from Fincantieri, Castellammare IMO: 9319442
Image attribution: Claus Gaser, Malte Classens & Igor Dilo
27,510GT for Stena Line A/B from Cantiere Navale Visentini, Porto Viro IMO: 9329851
Mersey Seaways 2010 DFDS Seaways
Stena Mersey 2011 Stena Line
Stena Baltica 2021 Stena Line
Image attribution: Joseph Collinson
The stretched Stena Baltica – image by Robin Rantala
21,618grt for Bibby Line from Fairfield, Glasgow IMO 5267732
Fairstar 1964 Fairstar Shipping Corp (Sitmar) – later with P&O Australia
Ripa 1997 Breakers
Scrapped Alang 1997
As a troopship was the running mate, not sister ship, of British India’s Nevasa
Photo from Peter Thomas, Alberto Bisagno & Mike Cornwall
As the newly converted Fairstar in Aden
250,800GT for Royal Caribbean International from Meyer Turku, Turku
IMO: 9829930
The largest passenger ship ever built. Images from Meyer Turku, Royal Caribbean & Commander Johannes Enqvist
Image from Commander Johannes Enqvist
13,922grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge by Cockerill, Hoboken (Belgium)
Cathay 1961 P&O Line
Kengshin 1976 Republic of China
Shanghai 1978 Republic of China
Reported to be scrapped in China in 1996 and deleted off registry in 2007
Image attribution: Trevor Page & my photo in Hong Kong.
Cathay in Aden
The Shanghai in Hong Kong
10,513grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki
Torpedoed Sarawak December 1941 by the Dutch submarine HNLMS K XIV
Image attribution: Walter E Frost
14,966grt for Cie Sudatlantique from Forges et Chantiers de la Méditerranée, La Seyne
Torpedoed by U 35 off Sardinia 1916
France’s worst maritime disaster of the war
14,561grt for Cie Sudatlantique by Penhoët, St Nazaire
Scrapped in Blyth 1938
Sister of the ill-fated Gallia
OCEANIA or NEPTUNIA, CONTE GRANDE & LUTETIA Buenos Aires
18,485grt for Allan Line from Beardmore, Glasgow
Empress of France 1919 Canadian Pacific
Scrapped in Dalmuir 1934
Image from George Duncan
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