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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: ocean liner
No.906 Savannah launched July 21, 1959
15,585grt for States Marine Lines Inc by New York SB Co, Camden The first nuclear-powered merchant ship, designed to carry 60 passengers Moored at Baltimore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah Image attribution: Matthew Abbott & Mark Sages
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Blatimore, Camden, New York SB, Savannah, States Marine Lines
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No.873 Niassa launched in 1955
10,912grt for by CNN-Companhia Nacional de Navegacao from Cockerill, Hoboken (Belgium) Scrapped in Bilbao 1979 Image attribution: Luis Miguel Correia & Gordon Dalzell
No.874 Port Melbourne launched in 1955
16,300grt for Port Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Therisos Express 1972 J C Carras Danae 1975 J C Carras Anar 1992 J C Carras Starlight Princess 1992 Prestige Cruises Baltica 1994 Classic International Princess Danae 1996 Classic International Lisboa … Continue reading
No.756 Pretoria Castle launched in 1947
28,705grt for Union-Castle Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast S.A. Oranje 1966 South African Marine Corp Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1975 Image attribution: Don Hazeldine & Beken of Cowes
No.759 Leopoldville launched in 1947
10,901grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Cockerill, Hoboken P.E. Lumumba 1967 Cie Mar Congolaise Scrapped in Rio Grande 1974 Image attribution: JP Hack on Ship Nostalgia
No.384 Stuttgart launched in 1923
13,325grt for North German Lloyd from Vulcan, Stettin Bombed Gdansk/Gdynia 1943
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Bombed, Gdansk, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, Stuttgart, Vulcan Stettin
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No.385 Voltaire launched in 1923
13,248grt for Lamport & Holt by Workman Clark, Belfast Sunk mid-Atlantic by the German raider Thor 1941 General Von Steuben (Norddeutscher Lloyd), SS Voltaire (Lamport and Holt Line) and SS Atlantis (Royal Mail Lines) anchored at Stockholm, Sweden. 1934.
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Belfast, Lamport & Holt, sunk, Thor, Voltaire, Workman Clark
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No.296 Bay State launched in 1920
14,187grt for US Shipping Board by New York SB Corp, Camden President Madison 1922 Admiral Oriental President Quezon 1939 Philippine Mail Line Ran aground on ship’s delivery voyage (oops), later raised & scrapped Japan 1940
No.297 Golden State launched in 1920
14,123grt for US Shipping Board by Newport News, Newport News President Cleveland 1922 Pacific Mail SS Co Tasker H. Bliss 1941 US Army Torpedoed by U130 off North Africa 1942 U-130 sank 3 US troopships; Edward Rutledge, Hugh L. Scott … Continue reading
No.298 Granite State launched in 1920
10,533grt for US Shipping Board by New York SB Corp, Camden President Polk 1922 United States Line, then Dollar Line President Taylor 1940 US Army Stranded Canton 1942
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