10,021grt for Panama Railroad by Bethlehem Steel Co, Quincy
State of Maine 1963 Maine Maritime Academy
Scrapped in Wilmington 1973
ANCON during WW2
Post-WWII image of SS Ancon returning to the Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA., 13 June 1947, after being reconverted there for merchant service with the Panama Railroad Co.
Photo ©”Boston Herald”.
State of Maine with Maine Maritime Academy
at 83,673 gross registered tons for Cunard-White Star Line by John Brown, Clydebank
Entered regular transatlantic service with Cunard Line service in 1946
Elizabeth 1969 Queen Ltd
Seawise University 1970 Seawise Foundations (CY Tung)
Fire at Hong Kong 1972, later scrapped
The largest true passenger liner, certainly of the 20th Century
17,392 Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Warwick Castle 1946 Union-Castle Line
Scrapped in Barcelona 1962
Carrier HMS Pretoria Castle in WW2
Warwick Castle in Aden
23,191grt for Swedish America Line from Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente
Navarino 1974 MA Karageorgis
Samantha 1983 Multiship Italia
Regent Sea 1984 Regent Cruises
Sea 1997 Antonios Lelakis
Sank en route breakers 2001
Image attribution: Bob Scott, Gordon Dalzell & Rick Garcia
19,980grt for Hamburg-America Line from Tecklenborg, Geestemunde
Limburgia 1920 Royal Holland Lloyd
Reliance 1922 United American Line
Reliance 1926 Hamburg-America Line
Fire at Hamburg 1938, scrapped Bremerhaven
Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
RELIANCE in Copenhagen in 1933
Franz Grasser worked as an on-board photographer for the Hamburg company Carl Müller & Sohn
EMPRESS of BRITAIN & RELIANCE in Australia during their world cruises of 1938. With 2 years they’d both be lost
54,000GT for Regent Seven Seas from Fincantieri, Ancona
IMO: 9877444
Image attribution: Shippax, Vitor Francicso, Oliver Kessler & Claudio Ritossa
11,513grt for Cia Trasmediterranea from Union Naval de Levante, Valencia IMO: 7915802
Mary The Queen 2009 Romblon Shipping
Driven ashore Manila 2015
First 3 – named images from Marine Traffic
Image attribution: Manuel Mohedano Torres
12,686grt for Soc Nationale Maritime Corse-Méditerranée by Dubigeon-Normandie SA, Nantes IMO: 8003620
Grand Ferry 2018 20805 Karaneh Lines
Last position Persian Gulf
Image attribution: Carlo Martinelli & Brian on Ship Spotting
Grand Ferry photo by Georgios Togias
12,288grt for Quark Expeditions from Wärtsilä, Helsinki IMO: 7824417
Image attribution: Wayne A’Court in New Zealand
15,286grt for North German Lloyd by Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack
Admiral Nakhimov 1949 USSR
Collision, sank Black Sea with heavy loss of life 1986
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Admiral_Nakhimov for a more detailed history, including sinkings in 1945 & 1947.
Image attribution: Dragomir Novakovic & Jeremy Ramsdale
The World's Passenger Ships 