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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.612 Zaandam launched in 1938
10,909grt for Holland-America Line by Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam Sister of the Noordam Torpedoed by U 174 in the Atlantic 1942. 3 survivors were found after 82 days at sea. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaandam_%28schip,_1939%29
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Holland America Line, Schiedam, torpedoed, U174, Wilton-Fijenoord, Zaandam
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No.613 Dominion Monarch launched in 1938
27,155grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Newcastle Dominion Monarch Maru 1962 Breakers Scrapped in Osaka 1962 Image attribution: Skyfoto’s Fotoflite She is the ship in the opening sequence of ‘Call the Midwife Dominion Monarch … Continue reading
No.615 Tjitjalengka launched in 1938
10,972grt for Java-China-Java Line by Nederlandsche SB Mij, Amsterdam Scrapped in Hong Kong 1968 Served as a hospital ship in WW2 in the Far East When I was providing individual ship histories a woman wrote to me from Brazil – … Continue reading
No.616 Sobieski launched in 1938
11,030grt for Gdynia-America Line by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Gruzia 1950 USSR Scrapped in La Spezia 1975 Gruzia, photo from Peter Ferrary
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Gdynia-America Line, Gruzia, La Spezia, Newcastle, Sobieski, Swan Hunter, USSR
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No.618 Ancon launched in 1938
10,021grt for Panama Railroad by Bethlehem Steel Co, Quincy State of Maine 1963 Maine Maritime Academy Scrapped in Wilmington 1973 ANCON during WW2 Post-WWII image of SS Ancon returning to the Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA., 13 June 1947, after being … Continue reading
No.619 Queen Elizabeth, launched in 1938
at 83,673 gross registered tons for Cunard-White Star Line by John Brown, Clydebank Entered regular transatlantic service with Cunard Line service in 1946 Elizabeth 1969 Queen Ltd Seawise University 1970 Seawise Foundations (CY Tung) Fire at Hong Kong 1972, later … Continue reading
No.620 Pretoria Castle launched in 1938
17,392 Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Warwick Castle 1946 Union-Castle Line Scrapped in Barcelona 1962 Carrier HMS Pretoria Castle in WW2 Warwick Castle in Aden
No.884 Gripsholm launched in 1956
23,191grt for Swedish America Line from Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente Navarino 1974 MA Karageorgis Samantha 1983 Multiship Italia Regent Sea 1984 Regent Cruises Sea 1997 Antonios Lelakis Sank en route breakers 2001 Image attribution: Bob Scott, Gordon Dalzell & Rick Garcia
No.234 Johann Heinrich Burchard launched in 1914
19,980grt for Hamburg-America Line from Tecklenborg, Geestemunde Limburgia 1920 Royal Holland Lloyd Reliance 1922 United American Line Reliance 1926 Hamburg-America Line Fire at Hamburg 1938, scrapped Bremerhaven Image attribution: Steve Walker Color RELIANCE in Copenhagen in 1933 Franz Grasser worked … Continue reading
No.421 Berlin launched in 1925
15,286grt for North German Lloyd by Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack Admiral Nakhimov 1949 USSR Collision, sank Black Sea with heavy loss of life 1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Admiral_Nakhimov for a more detailed history, including sinkings in 1945 & 1947. Image attribution: Dragomir Novakovic & … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Admiral Nakhimov, Berlin, Bremer Vulcan, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, sank, USSR, Vegesack
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The World's Passenger Ships 