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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.784 Rangitane launched in 1949
21,867grt for New Zealand Shipping Co. from John Brown, Clydebank Jan 1968 Astroguardo Oriental Esmeralda 1968 CY Tung Group Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1976 Image attribution: Chris Howell
No.781 Rio Jachal launched in 1949
11,342grt for Flota Mercante del Estado from Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente Fire, scrapped Buenos Aires 1970 Image attribution: http://histarmar.com.ar
No.140 Osterley launched in 1909
12,129grt for Orient Steam Navigation Co by London & Glasgow Ship Building, Govan Scrapped in Glasgow 1930
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Glasgow, Govan, London & Glasgow Ship Building, Orient SN Co, Osterley
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No.139 Vasari launched in 1908
10,117grt for Lamport & Holt by Raylton Dixon, Middlesbrough Arctic Queen 1928 Hellyer Brothers Pishchevaya Industriya 1935 Soviet Union Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1979, aged 71 Pishchevaya Industriya photo by Sergey Konstantinov
No.138 Megantic launched in 1908
14,878grt for White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Osaka 1933 Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc & Steve Walker Color
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Megantic, Osaka, White Star Line
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No.137 Otway launched in 1908
12,077grt for Orient Steam Navigation Co by Fairfield, Glasgow Torpedoed by UC 49 off the Hebrides 1917
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Fairfield Glasgow, Hebrides, Orient SN Co, Otway, torpedoed, UC49
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No.136 Minnewaska launched in 1908
14,317grt for Atlantic Transport Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mined Suda Bay 1916
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Atlantic Transport, Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Mined, Minnewaska, Suda Bay
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No.762 Gothic launched in 1947
15,902grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1969 Three photos of her as the Royal Yacht in 1954 Gothic, after the devastating bridge fire
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Gothic, Kaohsiung, Newcastle, Royal Yacht, Shaw Savill & Albion, Swan Hunter
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No.134 Laurentic launched in 1908
14,892grt for White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mined Malin Head 1917 with significant loss of life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Laurentic_(1908)
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Laurentic, White Star Line
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No.133 Cleveland launched in 1908
16,960grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Mobile 1919 US Navy King Alexander 1920 Byron SS Co Cleveland 1923 United American Lines Scrapped Hamburg 1933 The Cleveland in Manila in 1913
The World's Passenger Ships 