No.1121 Apulia launched in 1980

17,961grt for Lloyd Triestino SpA by Italcantieri SpA, Genoa

Capo Spartivento 1987 Tirrenia di Navigazione

Da Long 2001 Dae Ryong

Scrapped in China 2009 IMO:7902740

Image attribution: Carlo Martinelli

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No.1081 Cyrnos launched in 1978

11,819grt for Soc Nationale Maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM) from Dubigeon-Normandie SA, Nantes

Ile de Beauté 1990 SNCM

Beau 2013 Breakers

Scrapped Aliaga 2013 IMO:7715379

CYRNOS photo by Stéphane Saissi

Image copyright: Carlo Martinelli

ILE DE BEAUTÉ photo by Julien Imbert

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No.81 Hellig Olav launched in 1902

10,085grt for Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (DFDS) by Stephen, Glasgow

Scrapped Blyth 1934

Image from Norway Heritage

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No.1801 AIDASol launched in 2011

71,304GT for AIDA Cruises from Meyer Werft, Papenburg IMO: 9490040

Image attribution: Mário Camacho

Image by Tom Gulbrandsen

Funchal port. Photo by IRIA AGUIAR.

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No.1401 Paul Gauguin launched in 1996

19,170GT for Services et Transports Tahiti from Chantiers de l´Atlantique, St Nazaire

IMO: 9111319

Image attribution: Richard Francis, David Sky & Dirk Septer

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No.1241 Cinderella launched in 1989

46,398 Viking Line from Wärtsilä Marine, Turku

Viking Cinderella 2003 Viking Line

Image attribution: Markus Mattila

Image from Christer Gustafsson

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No.561 Cordillera launched in 1933

12,931 Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

Russ 1952 USSR

Scrapped 1979

Sister of the Caribia

Image copyright: Hapag-Lloyd & W A Schell

Photo in Curacao

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No.2020 Moby Fantasy launched 6 Nov 2021

69500GT Moby Ferries from Guangzhou Shipyard Internationale IMO: 9837509

Image attribution: Moby, Jorge Truchon & Pietro Bartalini on Marine Traffic

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No.545 Rex launched in 1931

51,062grt for ‘Italia’ Flotta Riunite by Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente

Bombed south of Trieste 1944

Image copyright: Steve Walker Color

The largest passenger liner to be lost by enemy action in wartime

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No.45 Minnehaha launched in 1900

13,403grt for Atlantic Transport Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast

Torpedoed by U 48 off Fastnet 1917

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