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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.847 Général Mangin launched in 1952
12,457 Cie de Nav Fraissinet et Cyprien Fabre from Penhoët, St Nazaire President 1969 Philippine President Line Eastern Queen 1972 Cia de Nav Abeto SA Hizbul Bahr 1977 Bangladesh Shipping Shaheed Salahuddin 1981 Bangladesh Navy Scrapped Chittagong 1985
No.846 City of Exeter launched in 1952
13,345grt for Ellerman Lines by Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mediterranean Sea 1971 MA Karageorgis Tutku 1996 Istanbul Sea Lines Alice 1996 Armon Trading Scrapped Aliaga 1998 Images: Malcolm Cranfield, Ben Ayre & Chris Howell
No.845 Free State Mariner launched in 1952
14,799grt for US Maritime Commission from Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point Monterey 1956 Matson Line (later Flotta Lauro) Monte 2006 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2006 Image attribution: Frank A.Gerhardt, Admeto Verde & Tony Davis
No.170 Cap Finisterre launched in 1911
14,503grt for Hamburg-South America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg USS Cap Finisterre & then a Japanese War Prize Taiyo Maru 1920 Toyo Kisen KK Torpedoed US submarine Grenadier off Japan 1942 Image from Rich Turnwald
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Cap Finisterre, Hamburg, Hamburg- South America, Taiyo Maru, Toyo Kisen, USS Grenadier
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No.169 Ballarat launched in 1911
11,120grt for P & O Line Branch Line from Caird, Greenock Torpedoed by UB 32 off Wolf Rock 1917 Image attribution: Australian War Memorial
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Ballarat, Branch Line, Caird, Greenock, P&O, torpedoed, UB32, Wolf rock
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No.168 Zealandic launched in 1911
10,898grt for White Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mamilius 1926 Aberdeen Line Mamari 1932 Shaw, Savill & Albion HMS Hermes 1940 Royal Navy ( a dummy ship for the aircraft carrier) Bombed Cromer 1941 Maamilius Mamari HMS Hermes
