14,030grt for Cunard Line from John Brown, Clydebank
HMS Alaunia 1939
Scrapped in Blyth 1957
14 years a liner 18 years RN-AMC, transport and repair ship
HMS Alaunia – IWM
12,239grt for Messageries Maritimes by Constructions Navales, La Ciotat
Sunk at Marseille 1944
Images: Marc Coetmellec & P Ramona on Messageries Maritimes’ site
20,277grt for Cunard Line from Vickers, Barrow
Torpedoed by U 46 off Ireland in 1940
From left to right Carinthia, Kungsholm, Strathnaver and Kościuszko 1935 in Stockholm
16,923grt for Anchor Line by Fairfield, Glasgow
Torpedoed by U 56 off Malin Head 1940
Image attribution: Percy Loomis Sperr & John Henry Rigaud
Curacao
10,772grt for Rotterdam Lloyd from De Schelde, Vlissingen
Assuncion 1956 Providencia
Bianca C 1957 Costa fu Andrea
Melanesien 1958 Messageries Maritimes
Scrapped in Italy 1963
Koninkliijke Rotterdamsche Lloyd motor ship Indrapoera
Melanesien image attribution: Phillippe Casanova
In the period 1957-1963 the ship’s name was Melanesien but she was only chartered by Messageries Maritimes while she was still owned by Giacomo Costa fu Andrea and she was still flying the Italian Flag.
17,388grt for Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Scrapped Hamburg 1962
Image attribution: Andreas Hoppe & Ian Joseph
Image from Yoshiaki Nishimura
Image from Chris Howell
10,909grt for Holland-America Line by Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam
Sister of the Noordam
Torpedoed by U 174 in the Atlantic 1942. 3 survivors were found after 82 days at sea.
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaandam_%28schip,_1939%29
27,155grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Newcastle
Dominion Monarch Maru 1962 Breakers
Scrapped in Osaka 1962
Image attribution: Skyfoto’s Fotoflite
She is the ship in the opening sequence of ‘Call the Midwife
Dominion Monarch as a troopship
Photo by Beken of Cowes
She is the ship in the opening sequence of ‘Call the Midwife’ photographed from Saville Road, London
A Daryl LeBlanc coloration
10,972grt for Java-China-Java Line by Nederlandsche SB Mij, Amsterdam
Scrapped in Hong Kong 1968
Served as a hospital ship in WW2 in the Far East
When I was providing individual ship histories a woman wrote to me from Brazil – having emigrated from the Far East via Cape Town on this ship. She said they were woken by her mother screaming and she had scratch marks on her neck. She said she was attacked by a man in bandages. They turned on the cabin lights immediately and there was no one else in the cabin apart from her family. She was intrigued when I told her the ship spent WW2 as a hospital ship.
Image from Hiromaru
11,030grt for Gdynia-America Line by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle
Gruzia 1950 USSR
Scrapped in La Spezia 1975
Gruzia, photo from Peter Ferrary
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