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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: Emigrant Ship
No.475 Rangitiki launched 1928
16,755grt for New Zealand Shipping Company from John Brown, Clydebank Scrapped in Santander 1962
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Clydebank, John Brown, New Zealand Shipping Co, Rangitiki, Santander
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No.71 Merion launched in 1901
11,621grt for American Line by John Brown, Clydebank Tiger 1914 British Admiralty (A dummy ship for HMS Tiger) Torpedoed by UB8 off Mudros 1915 and as HMS Tiger
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Tagged Admiralty, American Line, Clydebank, HMS Tiger, John Brown, Merion, Mudros, torpedoed, UB8
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No.569 Potsdam launched in 1935
17,528grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Empire Jewel 1945 Ministry of Transport Empire Fowey 1946 Ministry of Transport Safina-E-Hujjaj 1960 Pan-Islamic SS Co (and a regular caller in Aden) Scrapped Gadani Beach 1976 Potsdam at Suez Empire … Continue reading
No.69 Noordam launched in 1901
12,531grt for Holland-America Line Harland & Wolff, Belfast Kungsholm 1922 Chartered to Swedish-America Line Noordam 1924 Holland-America Line Scrapped Netherlands 1928 Image copyright Kungsholm: http://Captainalbert.com Chartered for just under two years to the Swedish America Line
No.68 Athenic launched in 1901
12,234 White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Pelagos 1928 Pelagos A/S (a whaling factory ship) Scrapped Hamburg 1962 She was captured by the German Raider SS Pinguin on Jan 15, 1941 along with other factory ship, one depot … Continue reading
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Tagged Athenic, Belfast, Hamburg, Harland & Wolff, Pelagos, Whale, White Star Line
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No.60 Rijndam launched in1901
12,527grt for Holland-America Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Netherlands 1929
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Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Holland America Line, Netherlands, Rijndam
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No.59 Minnetonka launched in 1901
13,398grt for Atlantic Transport Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by U 64 Malta 1918 (Shakespeare Cliff is in Dover)
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Tagged Atlantic Transport, Belfast, Dover, Harland & Wolff, Minnetonka, torpedoed, U64
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No.58 Zeeland launched in 1900
11,905grt for Red Star Line by John Brown, Clydebank Northland 1915 UK Shipping Controller Zeeland 1920 Red Star Line Minnesota 1927 Atlantic Transport Line Scrapped Inverkeithing 1930 Image copyright: http://alchetron.com/SS-Zeeland
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Tagged Atlantic Transport, Clydebank, Inverkeithing, John Brown, Minnesota, Northland, red Star Line, Zeeland
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No.490 General Osorio launched 1929
11,590grt for Hamburg-America Line from Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack Transferred to Hamburg-South America in 1936. Accommodation ship at Kiel from Apr 1940. Sunk by air attack at Kiel on 24 Jul 1944, raised. Heavily damaged and sunk again by bombing at … Continue reading
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