34,569grt for CGT French Line from Penhoët, St Nazaire
Fire Le Havre 1939
Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc Color, Steve Walker Color
for Polska Żegluga Bałtycka SA, operator of Polferries and leased to Visemar by Visentini
Images from Polferries
10,881grt for Messageries Maritimes from Chantiers de la Gironde Bordeaux
Delphi 1969 CS Efthymiadis
La Perla 1977 Perla Cruises
La Palma 1980 Intercruise Ltd
Scrapped Alang 2003
Image attribution: Gerard Fournier
Image attribution: Dr. Allan Ryszka-Onions
Image attribution: Ben Ayre
13,162grt for Messageries Maritimes by Chantiers Naval de La Ciotat
Pacifique 1967 Messageries Maritimes
Princess Abeto 1970 Cia de Nav Abeto SA
Malaysia Baru 1971 Fir Line
Malaysia Kita 1972 Fir Line
Fire 1976, scrapped Kaohsiung
From Rich Turnwald
11,695grt for Lloyd Triestino from CR dell’ Adriatico, San Marco
Anastasis 1978 Youth With a Mission
Scrapped Alang 2007
Image attribution: Ian Joseph
Photo in Aden
Photo by Mike Cornwall
11,347grt for Blue Funnel Line from Scott´s, Greenock
Scrapped in Hong Kong 1960
Completed during WW1, she served as a troopship and was nearly sunk by a German mine but without loss of life. Between the wars she operated commercially in the Pacific Ocean, before returning to military service in WW2. Her final civil role was to carry Islamic pilgrims from Indonesia to Mecca before being scrapped in 1960.
24,281grt for Navigazione Generale Italiana from Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente
Bombed Trieste 1944
DUILIO and GIULIO CESARE chartered by International Red Cross, photographed in April 1942 in Gibraltar
13,936grt for Cunard Line by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle
Torpedoed by UB 67 in 1918 off the coast of Donegal. A trawler took the ship in tow but she became stranded near Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, Scotland.
10,391grt in Bibby Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Scrapped in Barrow 1956
This British troopship brought my parents back from Singapore in 1952. Image attribution: Beken of Cowes & one with the Queen Mary
Lancashire in Singapore 1952
11,796grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion from Workman Clark, Belfast
Scrapped in Dalmuir 1953
Image attribution: ClydeMaritime
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