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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.256 Belgenland launched in 1914
27,132grt for Red Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Belgic 1917 White Star Line Belgenland 1923 Red Star Line Columbia 1935 Atlantic Transport Line Scrapped in Bo’ness 1936 Image from Steve Walker Color Belgic in early service Belgenland leaving … Continue reading
No.257 Ausonia launched in 1915
11,300grt for for Società Italiana di Servizi Marittimi (SITMAR) from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg There were plans to convert her to an aircraft carrier. Never completed, broken up in 1922
No.258 Aotearoa launched in 1915
14,744 grt for Union SS Co of New Zealand by Fairfield, Glasgow HMS Avenger 1916 Royal Navy Torpedoed by UB 69 at Scapa Flow 1917 http://naval-history.net/OWShips-WW1-08-HMS_Avenger.htm & The John Oxley Library
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Tagged Aotearoa, Fairfield Glasgow, HMS Avenger, New Zealand, Royal Navy, Scapa Flow, torpedoed, UB69, Union SS Co
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No.259 San Gennaro launched in 1915
12,087grt for Sicula Americana from Palmers, Jarrow Colombo 1921 Navigazione Generale Italiana Scuttled Massawa 1941 Painting from George Duncan As a war transport in the Suez Canal
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Colombo, Jarrow, Massawa, Navigazione Generale Italiana, Palmers, San Gennaro, Scuttled, Sicula Americana
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No.260 Esperia launched in 1915
11,398grt for Soc Ital di Servizi Marittimi from Soc Ersercicio Bacini, Riva Trigoso Torpedoed by HMS Unique, Mediterranean 1941 Image attribution: Paolo Piccone, Archivio Stefano Cioglia Cagliari & Rich Turnwald
No.264 Paris launched in 1916
34,569grt for CGT French Line from Penhoët, St Nazaire Fire Le Havre 1939 Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc Color, Steve Walker Color
Posted in fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged CGT French Line, Fire, Paris, Penhoët, St Nazaire
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No.261 Tyndareus launched in 1915
11,347grt for Blue Funnel Line from Scott´s, Greenock Scrapped in Hong Kong 1960 Completed during WW1, she served as a troopship and was nearly sunk by a German mine but without loss of life. Between the wars she operated commercially in the … Continue reading
No.262 Duilio launched in 1916
24,281grt for Navigazione Generale Italiana from Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente Bombed Trieste 1944 DUILIO and GIULIO CESARE chartered by International Red Cross, photographed in April 1942 in Gibraltar
No.263 Aurania launched in 1916
13,936grt for Cunard Line by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Torpedoed by UB 67 in 1918 off the coast of Donegal. A trawler took the ship in tow but she became stranded near Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aurania, Cunard Line, Donegal, Mull, Newcastle, Swan Hunter, torpedoed, UB67
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