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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.299 Empress of Canada launched in 1920
21,517grt for Canadian Pacific from Fairfield, Glasgow Torpedoed by Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci, South Atlantic 1943 Of approximately 1,800 people on board, 392 died. 149 of the fatalities were Italian prisoners of war Photo: Steve Walker Color & Edwin … Continue reading
No.300 Buckeye State launched in 1920
1920grt for 14,123 US Shipping Board by Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point President Taft 1922 Pacific Mail SS Co Williard A. Holbrook 1941 US Army Scrapped Maryland 1952 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22044.htm Willard A. Holbrook in Australia
No.389 Camranh launched in 1923
10,193grt for Chargeurs Réunis from Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes Brazza 1927 Chargeurs Réunis Torpedoed by U 37 off Oporto in 1940 Images from Rich Turnwald Collection
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Tagged Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Brazza, Camranh, Chargeurs Reunis, Nantes, Oporto, torpedoed
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No.390 Ascania launched in 1923
14,013grt for Cunard Line from Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Scrapped in Newport 1957 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color – ASCANIA & CARINTHIA Montreal 1956
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Tagged Armstrong Whitworth, Ascania, Cunard Line, Newcastle, Newport
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No.891 Sylvania launched in 1956
21,989grt for Cunard Line from John Brown, Clydebank Fairwind 1968 Fairwind Shipping (Sitmar) Sitmar Fairwind 1988 Sitmar Cruises Dawn Princess 1988 Princess Cruises Albatros 1993 Phoenix Reisen Genoa 2004 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2004 Image: Vincent Neale, Brian Fisher, Masato Nishiguchi … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Alang, Albatros, Clydebank, Cunard Line, Dawn Princess, Fairwind, Genoa, John Brown, Phoenix Reisen, Princess Cruises, Sitmar, Sitmar Fairwind, Sylvania
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No.892 Theodor Herzl launched in 1957
10,596grt for Zim Israel Navigation Co by Deutsche Werft, Hamburg Carnivale 1969 New Horizons Freeport 1975 New Horizons Veracruz I 1976 Freeport Cruise Liners Sun Ambassador 1990 Festival Shipping The Fiesta 1991 Festival Shipping Fire, sank Piraeus 1991 Images: Frank … Continue reading
No.917 Galileo Galilei launched 2 Jul 1961
Maiden voyage 22 Apr 1963 27,907grt for Lloyd Triestino from CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone IMO 5411254 Galileo 1984 Chandris Line Meridian 1990 Chandris subsidiary Celebrity Cruises (their first ship) Sun Vista 1997 Sun Cruises Fire, sank near Penang Island 1999 … Continue reading
No.888 Ausonia launched in 1956
11,879grt for ‘Adriatica’ SAN from CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Ivory 2005 Louis Cruise Line Aegean Two 2005 Golden Star Cruises Winner 5 2010 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2010 Image attribution: Simonwp, The late Neven Jerković, Agustin Alapont Castilla & Tony Davis
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Tagged Adriatica SAN, Aegean Two, Ausonia, CR dell' Adriatico, Ivory, Louis Cruise Line, Monfalcone, Winner 5
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The World's Passenger Ships 