No.881 Jadotville launched in 1955

13,724grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Penhoët, St Nazaire

Chitral 1961 P&O Line

Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1975

Image attribution: Mike Cornwall, Trevor Page, Rik Faulkner

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No.841 Maasdam launched in 1952

15,024grt for Holland-America Line from Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam

Stefan Batory 1968 Polish Ocean Lines

Stefan 1990 Stena A/B

Scrapped Aliaga 2000

Image attribution: Ben Ayre, Philippe Brebant & Mike Griffiths

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No.560 Président Doumer launched in 1933

11,898grt for Messageries Maritimes by Constructions Navales, La Ciotat

Torpedoed by U 604 off Madeira 1942

http://messageries-maritimes.org/pdtdoumer.htm

Image copyright: P Ramona

President Doumer on the way to Narvik in WWII

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No.181 Demerara launched in 1911

11,484grt for Royal Mail Lines from Harland & Wolff, Belfast

1st July 1917 torpedoed off La Rochelle but reached port and repaired

Scrapped in Japan 1933

Image attribution: https://benjidog.co.uk

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No.761 Caronia launched in 1947

34,183grt for Cunard-White Star Line from John Brown, Clydebank

Columbia 1968 Universal Line (only for the delivery voyage to Greece)

Caribia 1968 Universal Line

Sank Guam 1974 whilst being towed to the breakers

Image attribution: Beken of Cowes, Steve Walker Color

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No.721 Marine Serpent launched in 1945

12,420grt for US Maritime Commission from Kaiser, Vancouver

Galveston 1968 Sea Land Service

Scrapped Kaohsiung

Image attribution: David M. Davis

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No.241 William O’Swald launched in 1914

20,200grt for Hamburg-America Line from A.G. ‘Weser’, Bremen

Brabantia 1920 Royal Holland Lloyd

Resolute 1922 United American Lines

Resolute 1926 Hamburg-America Line

Lombardia 1935 Lloyd Triestino

Bombed Naples 1943

Image: Liverpool Maritime Museum

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No.161 Paul Lecat launched in 1911

12,989grt for Messageries Maritimes by Constructions Navales, La Ciotat

Scrapped La Spezia 1928

Image attribution: http://messageries-maritimes.org

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No.80 Kaiser Wilhelm II launched in 1902

19,361grt for North German Lloyd by Vulcan, Stettin

Agamemnon 1917 US Navy

Monticello 1929 US Shipping Board

Scrapped Baltimore 1940

Photo from Rich Turnwald

USS Agamemnon after World War One in 1919. (Boston Public Library – Leslie Jones)

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No.1841 Le Lyrial launched in 2014

10,944GT for Compagnie du Ponent by Fincantieri, Ancona

Image attribution: Tony Davis

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