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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: Navy Ship
No.692 General W C Langfitt launched in 1944
10,654grt for US Navy from Kaiser, Richmond California Transindiana 1969 Hudson Waterways Scrapped Brownsville 1983 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22151.htm USAT General W. C. Langfitt arriving Yokohama, Japan, circa 1948. Ex-USS General W. C. Langfitt in merchant service as the Seatrain Corp. containership SS … Continue reading
No.693 Admiral C F Hughes launched in 1944
17,100grt for US Navy from Bethlehem Steel Co, Alameda, California Gen Edwin D Patrick 1947 US Army Scrapped Brownsville 2011 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22124.htm
No.694 General Omar Bundy launched in 1944
10,654grt for US Navy from Kaiser, Richmond California Portmar 1964 Calmar SS Co Port 1976 Ashley Steamship Co Poet 1979 Hawaiian Eugenia Sank Atlantic 1980 Portmar
Posted in Class C4-S-A1 (30 ships), Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged American Export Line, General Omar Bundy, Kaiser, Poet, Portmar, Richmond California, sank, US Navy
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No.331 Peninsula State launched in 1921
14,187grt for US Shipping Board by New York SB Corp, Camden President Pierce 1922 United States Line President Roosevelt 1922 United States Line Joseph T. Dickman 1941 US Navy Scrapped in Oakland 1948 Image attribution: Yoshiaki Nishimura & Percy Loomis … Continue reading
No.332 Hakone Maru launched in 1921
10,423grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Bombed off Formosa 1943
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Formosa, Hakone Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, Taiwan
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No.333 Mosella launched in 1921
10,250grt for Cie Sudatlantique from Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Jamaique 1928 Chargeurs Réunis Scrapped in Ghent 1954
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Chargeurs Reunis, Cie Sudatlantique, Ghent, Jamaique, Mosella, Newcastle, Swan Hunter
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No.334 Nutmeg State launched in 1921
13,712grt for US Shipping Board by Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point Western World 1922 Munson Line Leonard Wood 1941 US Army Scrapped in Vancouver 1948 Image from Rich Turnwald
No.335 Sophocles launched in 1921
12,361grt for Aberdeen Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Tamaroa 1926 Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped in Blyth 1957 (from The Trove Australia National Library) SOPHOCLES at the Aberdeen wharf at Millers Point, Sydney SS Tamaroa refuelling at Curacao in … Continue reading
No.695 General W.P. Richardson launched in 1944
17,811grt for US Navy by Federal SB & DD Co, Kearny La Guardia 1949 American Export Lines Leilani 1956 Hawaiian SS Co President Roosevelt 1961 American President Lines Atlantis 1970 Chandris Line Emerald Seas 1972 Ares Shipping Funtastica 1992 Ares … Continue reading
Posted in Class P2-S2-R2 (11 ships), Cruise ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, Static ship, troopship
Tagged Alang, Atlantis, Emerald Seas, Funtastica, General W.P. Richardson, La Guardia, Leilani, Ocean Explorer, President Roosevelt, Sapphire Seas, Terrifica
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No.696 General R M Blatchford launched in 1944
10,654grt for US Navy from Kaiser, Richmond California Stonewall Jackson 1970 Waterman Carriers Alex Stephens 1973 Waterman Carriers Scrapped Kaohsiung 1980 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22153.htm USS General R. M. Blatchford (AP-153) on a Magic Carpet cruise entering San Francisco Bay in 1945.
The World's Passenger Ships 