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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.140 Osterley launched in 1909
12,129grt for Orient Steam Navigation Co by London & Glasgow Ship Building, Govan Scrapped in Glasgow 1930
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Glasgow, Govan, London & Glasgow Ship Building, Orient SN Co, Osterley
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No.134 Laurentic launched in 1908
14,892grt for White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mined Malin Head 1917 with significant loss of life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Laurentic_(1908)
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Laurentic, White Star Line
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No.133 Cleveland launched in 1908
16,960grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Mobile 1919 US Navy King Alexander 1920 Byron SS Co Cleveland 1923 United American Lines Scrapped Hamburg 1933 The Cleveland in Manila in 1913
No.132 Berlin launched in 1908
17,323grt for North German Lloyd from A.G. ‘Weser’, Bremen Arabic 1921 White Star Line Scrapped in Genoa 1931 Postcard from Rudolf Kämmereron the auxiliary cruiser Berlin, interned at Trondheim in Norway. Arabic
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged AG Weser, Arabic, Berlin, Bremen, Genoa, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, White Star Line
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No.131 Cincinnati launched in 1908
16,339grt for Hamburg-America Line from Schichau, Danzig Covington 1917 US Navy Torpedoed by U 86 in the Atlantic 1918 From Liverpool Museums
Posted in Emigrant Ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Cincinnati, covington, Danzig, Hamburg-America, Schichau, torpedoed, U86, US Navy
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No.806 President Adams launched in 1950
13,750grt for American President Lines from New York SB Co, Camden Geiger 1951 US Navy Bay State 1980 Massachusetts Marine Academy Scrapped on James River 1982 Bay State
Posted in Navy Ship, troopship
Tagged American President, Bay State, Camden, Geiger, James River, Massachusetts, New York SB, President Adams, US Navy
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No.129 George Washington launched in 1908
25,570grt for North German Lloyd by Vulcan, Stettin George Washington 1921 United States Line Catlin 1941 US Navy George Washington 1941 US Maritime Commission Scrapped Baltimore 1951 USS Catlin
No.933 Santa Mercedes launched in 1963
14,442grt for Grace Line from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrow’s Point Patriot State 1983 US Maritime Commission Scrapped Brownsville, Texas 2011 IMO 5422409 Image attribution: Paul Wille, Captain Peter & Trenor from ShipSpotting
No.931 Raffaello launched 24 Mar 1963
Completed July 1965, 45,933grt for ‘Italia’ SAN from Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico, Trieste Sold to Iran in 1976 IMO 5289106 Raffaello was hit by a missile during the Iran–Iraq War in 1983 and sank in shallow waters outside Bushehr. Image attribution: … Continue reading
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Static ship
Tagged Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, IMO 5289106, Iran, Italia SAN, Raffaello, Trieste
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The World's Passenger Ships 