No.2018 Ferry Fukuoka launched 7 Oct 2021

15,400GT for City Line (Meimon Taiyo Ferry) by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Shimonoseki

IMO: 9908657

Image attribution: Elf Hill, GITO, S Katsuragi & Hiroshi Miyaji on Marine Traffic

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No.600 Ruys launched in 1937

14,155grt for Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij by De Schelde, Vlissingen

Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1968

Photo by Barry Parsons

Image from Rich Turnwald

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No.597 Tegelberg launched in 1937

14,150grt for Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij by Nederlandsche SB Mij, Amsterdam

Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1968

MS Tegelberg in Adabya Harbour (Ataka, Egypt), 1946.Willem van de Poll

TEGELBERG at Nagoya photo by Hiromaru

Image by Edson de Lima Lucas

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No.595 Boissevain launched in 1937

14,134grt for Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1968

Image attribution: Trevor Jones & Kenneth Barton

One of three sisters, all of which survived the war

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No.1985 Nils Holgersson launched 10 Nov 2020

56,138GT for TT Line from Jinling, China

IMO: 9865685

Image attribution: TT Line, Arno Bruegmann & Wolfgang Specht on Marine Traffic

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No.1536 Moby Freedom launched in 2000

36,365GT for Moby Lines by Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo

Freedom 2012 Eckero Line

Finlandia 2012 Eckero Line IMO: 9214379

Image from Sverre Andreas Rud

Sami Aaltonen on Marine Traffic

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No.1036 Stena Normandica launched in 1974

12,108grt for Stena Line A/B by Rickmers Werft, Bremerhaven

St Brendan 1985 Sealink UK

Moby Vincent 1990 Moby Lines

IMO: 7360605

Arrived  Aliaga, Turkey 18 April 2024

Image by Tony Davis

Image by Geoffrey Watson

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No.536 President Coolidge launched in 1931

21,936grt for Dollar Line by Newport News at Newport News

Mined, New Hebrides, (Vanuatu) 1942

Colour picture from Hayao Nogam

Photo from Rich Turnwald

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No.36 Potsdam launched in 1899

12,606grt for Holland-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg

Stockholm 1915 Swedish-America Line

Solglimt 1928 C Nielsen & Co

Sonderburg 1941 German War Prize

Scuttled Cherbourg scrapped UK 1947

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No.1986 Luna Seaways launched 13 Nov 2020

40,331GT for DFDS from Guangzhou Shipyard in Guangzhou

IMO: 9851048

Image attribution: Jan Williams, Gena Anfimov, Goran H Olssen & Peter Bernhard

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