No.958 Queen Elizabeth 2 launched 20 September 1967

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Maiden voyage 2 May 1969 65,863grt 70,327GT Cunard Line by John Brown, Clydebank

Queen Elizabeth 2 left Southampton Docks for the final time 11 November 2008

Now an hotel in Dubai

IMO: 6725418

Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc, Andrew Petrie, John Ruddy & Wayne A’Court

Returning from South Georgia during the Falklands Crisis 1982

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No.1458 Disney Wonder launched 1998

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83,308GT Disney Cruise Line from Fincantieri, Marghera

IMO: 9126819

Image attribution: Adam Walsh, Tony Davis & John Henry Rigaud in Curacao

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No.2036 Santoña launched 29 Apr 2022

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40,500GT for Brittany Ferries from AVIC Weihai shipyard, China

IMO:9886847

Image attribution: Maritime Photographic https://maritimephotographic.co.uk

Eugene Gillet and Gaspar Garcia on Marine Traffic

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No.459 Monte Cervantes launched in 1927

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13,913grt for Hamburg-South America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

Aground near Tierra del Fuego in 1930

She eventually sank in 1954!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Monte_Cervantes

Image from Bundesarchiv

One of her sisters was the Monte Rosa – later Empire Windrush

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No.959 John Hamilton Gray launched in 1967

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11,260 CN Marine Inc from Marine Industries Ltd, Sorel

Contessa I 1998 Contessa International

Texas Treasure II 2000 Contessa International

Treasure 2004 Breakers IMO:6803399

Scrapped Alang 2004

Image attribution: Mac Mackay

Treasure at Alang

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No.1459 Ben My Chree launched in 1998

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12,504GT for Isle of Man Steam Packet from Van der Giessen-de Noord, Krimpen

IMO: 9170705

Image attribution: Helen Lewin & A Kerruish

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No.1958 National Geographic Endurance floated out 7 Dec 2019

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12,786GT for Lindblad Expeditions from Crist, Gdansk & Ulstein

124.38m x 23.62m 125 passengers

IMO: 9842554

Image attribution: S Gergs, Ocean Liner Pictures & Ruud Rijke

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No.1592 Brilliance of the Seas floated out in 2002

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90,090GT for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line by Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg IMO: 9195200

Image attribution: David Chubb

Vitor Francisco image

Mark Wemyss photo

Photo from Tony Davis

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No.1092 Ariadne launched in 1979

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25,122grt for Rederi Nordö by Kockums Varv, Malmo

Soca 1980 Rederi A/B Nordö

Trapezitza 1982 SOMAT

Channel Seaway 1988 Sealink

Fantasia 1989 Sealink

Channel Seaway 1989 Sealink

Fiesta 1990 SNAT

SeaFrance Cezanne 1996 SeaFrance

Western Light 2011 Kimya

Broken Up Alang 2011 IMO: 7806099

Trapezitza

My photo of the SeaFrance Cezanne

Stena Fantasia & Seafrance Cezanne

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No.92 Kenilworth Castle launched in 1903

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12,975grt for Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Scrapped 1936

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