10,294grt for British India Line from Stephen, Glasgow
Nancowry 1976 Shipping Corporation of India
Scrapped in Bombay 1988
Image attribution: Trevor Jones
Construction started in 1940, launched 1948 11,626 Hamburg-America Line from Germaniawerft, Kiel
Skaugum 1948 I.M. Skaugen
Ocean Builder 1964 Ocean Shipping
Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972
An immigrant ship to Australia for over a decade
15,896grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Scrapped in Antwerp 1972
Image attribution: Chris Finney
From Gordy Ross
13,186grt for Cia Colonial from John Brown, Clydebank
Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1974
A Portuguese liner to Africa
Image attribution: Luis Miguel Correia & Karsten Petersen
In service 1926, 21,132grt for Hamburg-America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
She was sunk in 1945, raised and converted into a whale factory ship
Yuri Dolgoruki 1955 USSR (in service 1960)
Scrapped 1977
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Hamburg_(1925)
Images from Panamamaru, Mellahn & linerrich
Images from Mellahn
Image from linerrich on Ship Nostalgia
In service 1927, 23,940grt for Cosulich Soc Triestina by Cant Nav Triestino, Monfalcone
IMO: 5314597
Frances Y. Slanger 1945 US Navy
Saturnia 1946 Italia SAN
Scrapped in La Spezia 1966
Image attribution: John O’Leary & Earle G Boyd
Prewar image from her Cosulich days
20,063grt for Union-Castle Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Scrapped in Mihara Japan 1962
Image from Rich Turnwald Collection & Trevor Jones
She was patched up using plates salvaged from the Graf Spee in Montevideo.
Image from Trevor Jones
Image from Southampton
32,583grt for Navigazione Generale Italiana from Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente
Aquila 1943 Italian Navy
She was taken over by the German occupation forces in 1943 but was partially scuttled by Italian co-belligerents two years later. After the end of the conflict, her wreckage was raised and towed to La Spezia, where she was scrapped in 1951/52.
Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc Color & Percy Loomis Sperr
ROMA in New York, Nov 30 1932 by Percy Loomis Sperr
Roma Paolo Piccione Collection
Aquila 1943 Italian Navy
In service 1927 44,356grt for for CGT French Line from Penhoët, St Nazaire
Furanzu Maru 1959 Japanese Breakers (& as a film prop)
Scrapped in Osaka 1959
Originally with 3 funnels
Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc & Steve Walker Color
Image attribution: Steve Walker Color, post war conversion
Image from CGT, in my first ship book
Just before being scrapped, the ship was used as a floating prop for the 1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer disaster film The Last Voyage with the fictional name SS Claridon. The CGT sued MGM to have the ship’s funnels repainted and prohibit the name Île de France from appearing on the ship in the movie.
10,560grt for Bibby Line from Fairfield, Glasgow
Salopian 1939 Royal Navy
Torpedoed by U 98 off Cape Farewell 1941
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