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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: fire on ship
No.496 Western Prince launched in 1929
10,926grt for Furness, Withy & Co from Napier & Miller, Glasgow Torpedoed by U96 off Orkney in 1940 A single photo, plus a model of her identical sister Northern Prince. Another sister Southern Prince became the ANNA C
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Furness Withy, Glasgow, Napier & Miller, Orkney, torpedoed, Western Prince
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No.400 Monte Sarmiento launched in 1924
13,625grt for Hamburg-South America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Bombed Kiel 1942 Monte Sarmiento in Bergen Summer of 1925
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Blohm & Voss, Bombed, Hamburg, Hamburg- South America, Kiel, Monte Sarmiento
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No.1240 Victory launched in 1989
17,113grt for Eiyu Shoji YK by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kobe Chihuahua Star 2008 Baja Ferries Caribbean Fantasy 2011 America Cruise Ferries Fire Aug 2016, scrapped Aliaga 2017 Image from Malta Ship Photos
Posted in ferry, fire on ship, passenger ship
Tagged Baja Ferries, Caribbean Fantasy, Chihuhua Star, Eiyu Shoji, Kobe, Mitsubishi, Victory
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No.320 Vandyck launched 1921
13,233grt for Lamport & Holt by Workman Clark, Belfast Bombed Norway 1940
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Bombed, Lamport & Holt, Norway, Vandyck, Workman Clark
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No.760 Lavoisier launched in 1948
11,968grt for Chargeurs Réunis by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire Riviera Prima 1961 Commerciale Marittime Viking Princess 1964 A/S Sigline Fire, scrapped in Bilbao 1966 Rich Turnwald image
No.497 Tatsuta Maru launched in 1929
16,975grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Tatuta Maru 1938 Nippon Yusen KK Torpedoed by US submarine Tarpon off Japan 1943 Image attribution: Yoshiaki Nishimura Tatsuta Maru, marked with symbols of safe passage while working as a repatriation ship … Continue reading
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen, Tarpon, Tatsuta Maru, Tatuta Maru, torpedoed
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No.499 Llangibby Castle launched in 1929
11,951grt for Union-Castle Line from Harland & Wolff, Govan Scrapped Newport 1954 She was torpedoed 16 Jan 1942 by the German submarine U-402 The torpedo hit the stern, killing 26 people and blowing away her aft gun and rudder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Llangibby_Castle … Continue reading
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Tagged Govan, Harland & Wolff, Llangibby Castle, Newport, torpedoed, U402, Union Castle
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The World's Passenger Ships 