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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.422 Rawalpindi launched in 1925
16,619grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rawalpindi Sunk North Atlantic 1939 in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The Captain Edward Kennedy RN, killed in action with 237 others, was the … Continue reading
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Kennedy, P&O, Rawalpindi
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No.424 Conte Biancamano launched in 1925
24,416grt for Lloyd Sabaudo from Beardmore, Glasgow USS Hermitage 1942 US Navy Conte Biancamano 1947 Italia SAN Scrapped in La Spezia 1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Conte_Biancamano Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & Don Gammon USS Hermitage Image attribution: Don Gammon
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Beardmore, Conte Biancamano, Glasgow, Italia SAN, La Spezia, Lloyd Sabaudo, US Navy, USS Hermitage
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No.423 Caledonia launched in 1925
17,046grt for Anchor Line from Stephen, Glasgow HMS Scotstoun 1939 Royal Navy Torpedoed by U25 off Inishtrahull 1940 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color HMS Scotstoun
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Anchor Line, Caledonia, HMS Scotstoun, Royal Navy, Stephen Glasgow, torpedoed, U25
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No.425 Rajputana launched in 1925
16,568grt for P & O Line from Harland & Wolff, Greenock Torpedoed by U 108 off Ireland in 1941 Image attribution: Norman Stewart
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Greenock, Harland & Wolff, P&O, Rajputana, torpedoed, U108
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No.428 Asturias launched in 1925
22,071grt for Royal Mail Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Originally with two funnels Scrapped in Faslane 1957 Image attribution: John Wilson, State Library of Queensland & Allan Green Collection
Posted in Emigrant Ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Asturias, Belfast, Faslane, Harland & Wolff, royal Mail Line
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No.918 Guglielmo Marconi launched 24 Sep 1961
Completed Oct 1962 IMO 5137391 27,905grt for Lloyd Triestino CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Costa Riviera 1983 Costa Armatori American Adventure 1993 American Family Holidays CostaRiviera 1994 Costa Cruise Line Liberty 2001 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2001 Image attribution: Mike Cornwall, an … Continue reading
No.212 Aquitania launched in 1913
45,647grt for Cunard Line from John Brown, Clydebank Scrapped in Faslane 1950 Served as a troopship in both world wars Two images coloured by Steve Walker Leaving New Zealand during WW2 Cunard White Star RMS Aquitania passing Royal Pier, Southampton … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, Hospital ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Aquitania, Clydebank, Cunard Line, Faslane, John Brown
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The World's Passenger Ships 