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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.644 Rio de la Plata launched in 1941
13,432grt for Moore-McCormack Lines by Sun Shipbuilding & DD Co, Chester Charger 1941 US Navy Fairsea 1949 Alvion SS Corp (Sitmar) Fire scrapped La Spezia 1969 https://www.navsource.org/archives/03/030.htm Fairsea in Aden – photo by Sue Deller
Posted in Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Alvion, Charger, Fairsea, La Spezia, Moore McCormack, Rio de la Plata, Sitmar, Sun Shipbuilding, US Navy
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No.327 Laconia launched in 1921
19,680grt for Cunard Line by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Torpedoed by U 156 in the South Atlantic 1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Laconia_(1921) From Rich Turnwald U-156 37-35 Laconia 1942 09 15
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Tagged Cunard Line, Laconia, Newcastle, Swan Hunter, torpedoed, U156
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No.340 Andania launched in 1921
13,950grt for Cunard Line from Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle Torpedoed by UA 70 off Iceland 1944 Image attribution: Old Ship Picture Galleries
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Tagged Andania, Cunard Line, Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle, torpedoed, UA70
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No.622 Huascaran launched in 1938
10,022grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Beaverbrae 1948 Canadian Pacific Aurelia 1954 Cogedar Line Romanza 1970 Chandris Line Romantica 1991 New Ambassador Fire Cyprus 1998, Scrapped Alexandria Beaverbrae 1948 Canadian Pacific Aurelia by Ben Ayre Romanza 1970 … Continue reading
No.621 Argentina Maru launched in 1938
12,755grt for Osaka Shosen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Kaiyo 1943 Japanese Navy Bombed Beppu Bay 1945
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Argentina Maru, Beppu Bay, Bombed, Japanese Navy, Kaiyo, Mitsubishi, Nagasak, Osaka Shosen KK
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No.1300 Repubblica di Roma launched in 1991
35,152GT for Grimaldi Cia di Navigazione from Fincantieri, Castellammare IMO: 9009504 Fire 2014 then scrapped Aliaga Accommodation for 57 passengers & 3 named images from Marine Traffic
No.392 Tilawa launched in 1924
10,006grt for British India Line from Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle Torpedoed by Japanese submarine I 29 in the Indian Ocean 1942
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Tagged British India, Hawthorn Leslie, I29, Newcastle, Tilawa, torpedoed
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The World's Passenger Ships 