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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.617 Oranje launched in 1938
24,377grt for Stoomvaart Mij by ‘Nederland’ Nederlandsche SB Mij, Amsterdam Angelina Lauro 1964 Flotta Lauro Angelina 1977 Costa Line Fire St Thomas, Sank in the Pacific 1979 ORANJE in Cape Town Photo from Ben Ayre
No.413 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft launched in 1925
14,642grt for Stoomv Mij ‘Nederland’ from Ataliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire Fire Amsterdam 1932 More details of an unlucky ship at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Pieter_Corneliszoon_Hooft Image from Rich Turnwald Collection
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.619 Queen Elizabeth, launched in 1938
at 83,673 gross registered tons for Cunard-White Star Line by John Brown, Clydebank Entered regular transatlantic service with Cunard Line service in 1946 Elizabeth 1969 Queen Ltd Seawise University 1970 Seawise Foundations (CY Tung) Fire at Hong Kong 1972, later … Continue reading
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.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.1677 Carnival Freedom floated out in 2006
110,320GT for Carnival Cruise Lines from Fincantieri, Marghera IMO: 9333149 Image attribution: Tony Davis A funnel fire – no significant damage Eurodam & Carnival Freedom from Walter Colijn
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, passenger ship
Tagged Carnival Cruise Line, Carnival Freedom, fincantieri, Fire, IMO: 9333149, Marghera
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No.192 Empress of Asia launched in 1912
16,909grt for Canadian Pacific from Fairfield, Glasgow Bombed en route to Singapore 1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Empress_of_Asia RMS Empress of Asia under the Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver 1938 Bombed en route to Singapore 1942
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Bombed, Canadian Pacific, Empress of Asia, Fairfield Glasgow, Singapore
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The World's Passenger Ships 