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Compendium of the World’s Passenger Ships
My blog contains mini-histories and photos of 2170 ships loaded in a random order. But FOR JUST £20 you can have a pdf copy of my database in launch date 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. I will also provide an excel spreadsheet of links against every ship which will either take you to more detailed sites for past ships, the Marine Traffic page for the current vessel and to my blog for the photos. For the latest copy of both files, please email me at don.hazeldine@btinternet.com
Category Archives: fire on ship
No.820 Antilles launched in 1951
19,828grt for CGT French Line from Arsenal de Brest, Brest Fire, sank off Mustique 1971 Image attribution: Beken of Cowes & Ben Ayre Antilles 1966 photographer Karl-Heinz Wolff
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Antilles, Arsenal de Brest, Brest, CGT French Line, Fire, Mustique
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No.834 Flandre launched in 1951
20,469grt for CGT French Line by Ateliers et Chantiers de France, Dunkirk Carla C 1968 Costa Armatori Carla Costa 1986 Costa Armatori Pallas Athena 1992 Epirotiki Line Scrapped Aliaga 1994 after a major fire Image attribution: Linesman, Kenneth Barton, Tony … Continue reading
No.290 Hawkeye State launched in 1920
14,123grt for US Shipping Board by Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point President Pierce 1922 Pacific Mail SS Co (& others including American President Line) Hugh L. Scott 1941 US Navy Torpedoed by U130 off North Africa 1942 Image attribution: Yoshiaki … Continue reading
Posted in fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship, US Shipping Board 535ft Class
Tagged Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Hawkeye State, Hugh L Scott, Pacific Mail, President Pierce, Sparrow's Point, torpedoed, US Navy, US Shipping Board
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No.1250 Ecstasy launched in 1989
70,367GT for Carnival Cruise Lines from Masa-Yards Inc, Helsinki IMO: 8711344 Carnival Ecstasy 2007 Carnival Cruise Lines Image attribution: Me, Richard MacGregory & Dario Leveroni Photo from Eren Topku
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, passenger ship
Tagged Carnival Cruise Line, Carnival Ecstasy, Ecstasy, Helsinki, IMO: 8711344, Masa Yards
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No.294 Giulio Cesare launched in 1920
21,848grt for Navigazione Generale Italiana from Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Bombed Trieste 1944
No.1365 Transeuropa launched in 1994
32,534 Finnlines O/Y from Stocznia Gdansk, Gdansk IMO: 9010175 Euroferry Olympia 2013 Grimaldi On February 18, 2022, a major fire broke out on the ship when it was north of Corfu. Image attribution: Marcus Ships
Posted in ferry, fire on ship, passenger ship, Ro-pax
Tagged Euroferry Olympia, Finnlines, Grimaldi, IMO: 9010175, Stocznia Gdanska, Transeuropa
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No.386 Sierra Córdoba launched in 1923
11,469grt for North German Lloyd from Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack Burned out in 1946. Sank off Esbjerg 1948 being towed to the UK for breaking. Photo from Heizer on Ship Spotting
No.892 Theodor Herzl launched in 1957
10,596grt for Zim Israel Navigation Co by Deutsche Werft, Hamburg Carnivale 1969 New Horizons Freeport 1975 New Horizons Veracruz I 1976 Freeport Cruise Liners Sun Ambassador 1990 Festival Shipping The Fiesta 1991 Festival Shipping Fire, sank Piraeus 1991 Images: Frank … Continue reading
No.917 Galileo Galilei launched 2 Jul 1961
Maiden voyage 22 Apr 1963 27,907grt for Lloyd Triestino from CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone IMO 5411254 Galileo 1984 Chandris Line Meridian 1990 Chandris subsidiary Celebrity Cruises (their first ship) Sun Vista 1997 Sun Cruises Fire, sank near Penang Island 1999 … Continue reading
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