Category Archives: Navy Ship

No.700 General A W Greely launched in 1944

Posted on May 20, 2023 by donships

10,654grt for US Navy from Kaiser, Richmond California Hawaii Bear 1969 Pacific Far East Line Austral Glade 1976 Farrell Lines Pacific Enterprise 1979 American Pacific Caribe Enterprise 1982 American Pacific Scrapped 1986 https://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22141.htm

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No.250 Statendam launched 1914

Posted on May 19, 2023 by donships

32,234grt for Holland-America Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Renamed Justicia 1917 & managed by White Star Line for service as a troopship Torpedoed by UB 64 & UB 124 off Skerrymore 1918 Image: Steve Walker Color As intended – … Continue reading →

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No.391 Aurania launched in 1924

Posted on May 18, 2023 by donships

13,984grt for Cunard Line from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Artifex 1942 Royal Navy Scrapped in La Spezia 1961

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No.392 Tilawa launched in 1924

Posted on May 18, 2023 by donships

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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No.394 De Grasse launched in 1924

Posted on May 18, 2023 by donships

17,707grt for CGT French Line from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead Empress of Australia 1953 Canadian Pacific Venezuela 1956 Sicula Oceanica SpA Scrapped La Spezia 1962 Colour by Daryl LeBlanc Image: Paulo Piccione The changes over the years

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No.397 Orama launched in 1924

Posted on May 18, 2023 by donships

19,777grt for Orient SN Co from Vickers, Barrow Sunk Norway in 1940 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color, Artist is Edward Beckett, image via George Duncan Image attribution: 1938. RMS Empress of Britain – RMS Orama – Woolloomooloo Andrew Alekseev Color

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No.399 Hector launched in 1924

Posted on May 18, 2023 by donships

11,198grt for Blue Funnel Line from Scott´s, Greenock Bombed Colombo 1942 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hector_(F45) A Japanese air raid sank her in Ceylon in 1942. In 1946 she was raised and scrapped

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No.633 America launched in 1939

Posted on May 18, 2023 by donships

33,961grt for United States Lines by Newport News at Newport News West Point 1942 US Navy America 1946 United States Lines Australis 1964 Chandris Line Italis 1978 Chandris Line Noga 1980 Cia Noga Alferdoss 1984 Silvermoon Ferries American Star 1993 … Continue reading →

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No.253 Metagama launched in 1914

Posted on May 17, 2023 by donships

12,420grt for Canadian Pacific from Barclay Curle, Glasgow Scrapped Bo’ness 1934

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No.254 Fushimi Maru launched in 1914

Posted on May 17, 2023 by donships

10,940grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Husimi Maru 1938 Nippon Yusen KK Torpedoed off Japan 1943

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