No.1546 Aeolos Kenteris launched in 2001

11,705GT for NEL Lines by Alstom Leroux Naval, Lorient

Red Sea 1 2007 Pictor Shipping

Aeolos Kenteris 2009 NEL Lines

Sunk in Augusta, Italy 2020 after a long period of lay up

Image copyright: Flo L

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No.1046 Bohemund launched in 1974

12,618grt for Fred Olsen Line Ankerlokken Verft, Floro

(a ferry – 154 passengers)

Isola Delle Stelle 1987 Sardenia Compagnia di Nav

Giuseppe SA 2007 Moby Lines

Med Star 2022 Med Lines

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No.780 Helenus launched in 1949

10,125grt for Blue Funnel Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972

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No.779 Oslofjord launched in 1949

16,844grt for Norwegian America Line from Nederlandsche Sb Mij, Amsterdam

Fulvia 1969 Costa Armatori

Fire, sank Canary Islands 1970

Roger Aves added: Launched by N.V. Nederlandsche Dok en Scheepsbouv, Amsterdam for NAL.

11.1949 delivered.

11.1966 Refit started by shipbuilders. 2.1967 refit completed. 12.1967 -10.1968 : operated by Greek Line, cruising from Southampton.

12.1969 Chartered for three years to Costa Armatori, Italy and renamed Fulvia.

The success of Flavia’s Caribbean cruises prompted Costa Line to seek a second ship. They chartered the Norwegian America liner Oslofjord of 1949. The charter began in 1969, when the renamed Fulvia joined Federico C and Flavia on Caribbean cruises. She retained Norwegian flag and crew. She caught fire near the Canaries in July 1970, and subsequently sank, all passengers and crew having been saved by the Ancerville.

An explosion in the engine room had set her on fire off Teneriffe, but the passengers and crew escaped in the lifeboats.

The burning ship was taken in tow for Teneriffe, but sank in a position 29.57N, 16.30 W.

Oslofjord 1/7-59
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No.778 Rio de la Plata launched in 1949

11,317grt for Flota Mercante del Estado by Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente

Fire, scrapped in Buenos Aires 1968

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No.47 Tunisian launched in 1900

10,576grt for Allan Line from Stephen, Glasgow

Marburn 1922 Canadian Pacific

Scrapped Genoa 1928

Images from Clydeships

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No.599 Strathallan launched in 1937

23,722grt for P & O Line by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow

Torpedoed by U 562 off Oran 1942

The only Strath liner to be lost in WW2

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No.598 Stratheden launched in 1937

23,722grt for P & O Line by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow

Henrietta Latsi 1964 John S Latsis

Marianna Latsi 1966 John S Latsis

Scrapped in La Spezia 1969

Image from Ray Clark

Stratheden was in Aden Harbour on Coronation Day 1953

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No.163 Titanic, launched 1911

46,329grt for White Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Sank North Atlantic April 1912 with huge loss of life.

Posted on the 111th anniversary of her loss.

Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc Color

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No.402 Oronsay launched in 1924

20,001grt for Orient Line by John Brown, Clydebank

Torpedoed by Italian submarine Archimede off West Africa 1942.

She survived an attack at St Nazaire when the Lancastria was lost. My father was aboard when she was bombed off Ireland in Oct 1940. The ship limped back to Scotland under her own power.

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St Nazaire 1940 with the Lancastria sinking

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