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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.718 Vassar Victory launched in 1945
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
No.896 Pendennis Castle launched in 1957
28,582grt for Union-Castle Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Ocean Queen 1976 Ocean Queen Sindbad 1977 Kinvara Bay Shipping Sindbad 1 1977 Kinvara Bay Shipping Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1980 Image attribution: Trevor Jones, Iain Jenkins & Chris Howell Ocean Queen … Continue reading
No.644 Rio de la Plata launched in 1941
13,432grt for Moore-McCormack Lines by Sun Shipbuilding & DD Co, Chester Charger 1941 US Navy Fairsea 1949 Alvion SS Corp (Sitmar) Fire scrapped La Spezia 1969 https://www.navsource.org/archives/03/030.htm Fairsea in Aden – photo by Sue Deller
Posted in Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Alvion, Charger, Fairsea, La Spezia, Moore McCormack, Rio de la Plata, Sitmar, Sun Shipbuilding, US Navy
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No.642 Vaterland launched in 1940
41,000grt for Hamburg-America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Never completed – bombed in Hamburg 1943 In the background on 2nd photo
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Blohm & Voss, Bombed, Hamburg, Hamburg-America, Vaterland
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No.646 launched as the Izumo Maru 1941
27,500 Nippon Yusen by Kawasaki, Kobe Proposed Japanese ocean-liner of 27,000 tons and 722 feet long. Ordered late 1938, completed as an aircraft carrier in 1942 Hiyō, launched 1941 She was sunk by a US torpedo in the Battle of … Continue reading
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger ship
Tagged aircraft carrier, Hiyo, Izumo Maru, Kawasaki, Kobe, Nippon Yusen, torpedoed
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No.647 launched as Kashiwara Maru 1941
24,150grt for Nippon Yusen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Completed as aircraft carrier Junyo 1941 Japanese Navy Torpedoed 1944, hulked & broken up 1947 Japanese aircraft carrier Junyō moored at Sasebo, Japan, in 1945
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger ship
Tagged aircraft carrier, Junyo, Kashiwara Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, torpedoed
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No.351 Diogenes launched in 1922
12,341grt for Aberdeen Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mataroa 1926 Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped in Faslane 1957 Image attribution: Allan Green Collection & The Alexander Turnbull Library Mataroa departing Wellington 1957
No.352 Hakozaki Maru launched in 1922
10,413grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed by US submarine off Balao East China Sea 1945
Posted in Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Hakozaki Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen, torpedoed
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The World's Passenger Ships 