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Compendium of the World’s Passenger Ships
My blog contains mini-histories and photos of 2200 ships loaded in a random order. It is a data listing of liners, ferries, cruise and troop ships; every passenger carrying ship over 10000 tons dating from 1858 to the newbuilds of today.
Category Archives: Cruise ship
No.419 Transylvania launched in 1925
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
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Anchor Line, Curacao, Fairfield Glasgow, Malin Head, torpedoed, Transylvania, U56
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No.884 Gripsholm launched in 1956
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
No.234 Johann Heinrich Burchard launched in 1914
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 … Continue reading
No.2053 Seven Seas Grandeur floated out 2 Feb 2023
54,000GT for Regent Seven Seas from Fincantieri, Ancona IMO: 9877444 Image attribution: Shippax, Vitor Francicso, Oliver Kessler & Claudio Ritossa
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged fincantieri, IMO: 9877444, Regent Seven Seas, Sestri Ponente, Seven Seas Grandeur
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No.1149 Kapitan Khlebnikov launched in 1982
12,288grt for Quark Expeditions from Wärtsilä, Helsinki IMO: 7824417 Image attribution: Wayne A’Court in New Zealand
Posted in Cruise ship, Expedition, passenger ship
Tagged Helsinki, IMO: 7824417, Kapitan Khlebnikov, Quark Expeditions, Wartsila
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No.421 Berlin launched in 1925
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 & … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Admiral Nakhimov, Berlin, Bremer Vulcan, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, sank, USSR, Vegesack
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No.423 Caledonia launched in 1925
17,046grt for Anchor Line from Stephen, Glasgow HMS Scotstoun 1939 Royal Navy Torpedoed by U25 off Inishtrahull 1940 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color HMS Scotstoun
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Anchor Line, Caledonia, HMS Scotstoun, Royal Navy, Stephen Glasgow, torpedoed, U25
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No.1403 VEENDAM launched in 1996
55,451GT for Holland-America Line from Fincantieri, Monfalcone Aegean Majesty 2020 Greek owners (Seajets) Laid up near Patras in Greece Image attribution: Tony Davis, Neven Jerkovic & Aris Bilalis AEGEAN MYTH and AEGEAN MAJESTY by Aris Bilalis
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship, Static ship
Tagged Aegean Majesty, fincantieri, Holland America Cruises, IMO: 9102992, Monfalcone, Patras, Veendam
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No.1404 Nordnorge launched in 1996
11,386GT for Ofoten & Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskap from Kværner Kleven, Ulsteinvik IMO: 9107784 A Hurtigruten cruise ferry Image attribution: Tony Davis Jens Gressmyr from Marine Traffic
Posted in Cruise ship, ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Dampskibsselskap, Hurtigruten, IMO: 9107784, Kværner Kleven, Nordnorge, Ofotens og Vesteraalens, Ulsteinvik
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The World's Passenger Ships 