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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.266 Mahana launched in 1917
11,796grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion from Workman Clark, Belfast Scrapped in Dalmuir 1953 Image attribution: ClydeMaritime
Posted in Emigrant Ship, Navy Ship, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Dalmuir, Mahana, Shaw Savill & Albion, Workman Clark
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No.267 Minnekahda launched in 1917
17,221grt for Atlantic Transport Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Dalmuir 1936 Minnekahda in dazzle camouflage, approaching New York on 4 December 1918 with 3,010 U.S. troops aboard
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Atlantic Transport, Belfast, Dalmuir, Dazzle, Harland & Wolff, Minnekahda
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No.268 Ormonde launched in 1917
14,853grt for Orient Steam Navigation Co from John Brown, Clydebank Scrapped in Dalmuir 1952 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color Late WW1 photo ORMONDE Melbourne circa 1950 ORMONDE (1917) on her last voyage through the Suez Canal on 9th November 1952
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Clydebank, John Brown, Orient SN Co, Ormonde
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No.269 Regina launched in 1917
16,500grt for Dominion Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Westernland 1930 Red Star Line Scrapped in Blyth 1947 Image: Roelant Verhoeven Westernland Antwerp 1930
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Antwerp, Belfast, Blyth, Dominion Line, Harland & Wolff, red Star Line, Regina, Westernland
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No.631 Hokoku Maru launched in 1939
10,438grt for Osaka Shosen KK by Tama SB Co, Tacoma, Tamano Sank Indian Ocean 1942 after a surface action
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Hokoku Maru, Osaka Shosen KK, sunk, Tacoma, Tama Shipbuilding, Tamano
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No. 632 Brasil Maru launched in 1939
12,733grt for Osaka Shosen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed by US submarine Greenling 1942 Photo from Colombo 1940 by the late Jim Arnold – in my collection BRASIL MARU at Hong Kong in January 1940, shot by the late Don … Continue reading
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Brasil Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Osaka Shosen KK, torpedoed, USS Greenling
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No.635 Kasuga Maru launched in 1940
17,127grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Taiyo 1941 Japanese Navy Torpedoed 1944 by USS Rasher off the Philippines The ship as intended
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Japanese Navy, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, Philippines, Taiyo Ferry, torpedoed, USS Rasher
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No.634 Mormacmail launched in 1940
11,086grt for Moore-McCormack Lines by Sun SB & DD Co, Chester, USA Long Island 1941 US Navy Nelly 1949 Caribbean Land & Shipping Seven Seas 1953 Europa-Canada Line Scrapped in Belgium 1977
No.637 Aikoku Maru launched in 1939
10,437 Osaka Shosen KK from Tama SB Co, Tacoma, Tamano Bombed Truk Atoll 1944 Image attribution: http://combinedfleet.com/Aikoku_t.htm
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Aikoku Maru, Bombed, Osaka Shosen KK, Tacoma, Tama Shipbuilding, Tamano, Truk Atoll
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The World's Passenger Ships 