Category Archives: ocean liner

No.654 HMS Fencer launched in 1942

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14,708grt for the Royal Navy by Western Pipe & Steel, San Francisco Sydney 1950 Flotta Lauro Roma 1967 Flotta Lauro (replacing the earlier ROMA) Galaxy Queen 1971 Sovereign Cruise Ships Lady Dina 1972 G Kotzovolis Caribia 2 1973 Marimina Shipping … Continue reading →

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No.904 Windsor Castle launched in 1959

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37,640grt for Union-Castle Line from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead Margarita L 1977 Latsis Group Rita 2005 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2005 Image attribution: Trevor Jones, Cyril Gronemeyer, Les Pivnic & Tony Davis

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No.343 Barrabool launched in 1921

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13,148grt for P&O Branch Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Bo’ness 1936

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No.344 Esperance Bay launched in 1921

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13,853grt for Commonwealth Government by Beardmore, Glasgow Arawa 1936 Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped in Newport 1955 Image attribution: Allan Green Collection & Alexander Turnbill Library Image from Lisbon Image attribution: Alexander Turnbill Library

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No.345 Montclare launched in 1921

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16,314grt for Canadian Pacific by John Brown, Clydebank HMS Montclare 1939 Royal Navy Scrapped in Inverkeithing 1958

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No.346 Columbus launched in 1922

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32,354grt for North German Lloyd from Schichau, Danzig Scuttled Atlantic 1939 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Columbus_(1922)

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No.348 Jervis Bay launched in 1922

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13,839grt for Commonwealth Government from Vickers, Barrow Sunk North Atlantic 1940 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Jervis_Bay Image attribution: http://museumsvictoria.com.au Jervis Bay loading cargo at Adelaide’s Outer Harbour in 1937; Frank and Chris Finney

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No.349 Bendigo launched in 1922

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13,039grt for P&O Branch Line from Harland & Wolff, Greenock Scrapped in Barrow 1936 Image attribution: Gordy on Shipspotting Bendigo and Strathnaver at Malta in 1938 From the Old P&O

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No.350 Athenia launched in 1922

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13,465grt Anchor-Donaldson Line from Fairfield, Glasgow Torpedoed by U30 off the Hebrides on the day war was declared 3 September 1939 My father’s photo from the 1930s Athenia departing from Glasgow on her fateful voyage in 1939

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No.718 Vassar Victory launched in 1945

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10,139grt for US Maritime Commission from Bethlehem-Fairfield, Baltimore Castelbianco 1947 Sitmar Line Castel Bianco 1952 Sitmar Line Begona 1957 Cia Trasatlantica Scrapped in Castellon 1974

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