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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.119 Hesperian launched in 1907
10,920 Allan Line by Stephen, Glasgow Torpedoed by U 20 off Fastnet 4 Sept 1915 Image attribution: Liverpool Maritime Museum
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Allan line, Hesperian, Stephen Glasgow, torpedoed, U20
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No.118 Tenyo Maru launched in 1907
13,459 Toyo Kisen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Scrapped in Japan 1933
Posted in Japanese, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Japan, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Tenyo Maru, Toyo Kisen
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No.117 Grampian launched in 1907
10,187grt for Allan Line by Stephen, Glasgow Scrapped Netherlands 1925 Grampian after hitting an iceberg on July 10 1919 From Norway Heritage’s site
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Allan line, Grampian, Netherlands, Stephen Glasgow
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No.116 Cairo launched in 1907
10,864grt for Egyptian Mail by Fairfield, Glasgow Royal Edward 1910 Royal Line Torpedoed by UB 14 in the Aegean Sister ship of the Royal George
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Aegean, Cairo, Egyptian Mail, Fairfield Glasgow, Royal Edward, Royal Line, torpedoed, UB14
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No.115 Heliopolis launched in 1907
10,897 Egyptian Mail by Fairfield, Glasgow Royal George 1910 Royal Line Scrapped Wilhelmshaven 1922 This liner is not the Heliopolis that took migrants from Malaga, Spain to Hawaii in 1907 – incorrectly posted on Wikipedia and many Hawaiian family tree … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Egyptian Mail, Fairfield Glasgow, Hawaii, Heliopolis, Malaga, Royal George, Royal Line, Wilhelmshaven
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No.114 Avon launched in 1907
11,073grt for Royal Mail Lines by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Avoca 1916 Royal Navy Avon 1917 Royal Mail Lines Scrapped in Briton Ferry, South Wales 1930
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Avoca, Avon, Belfast, Briton Ferry, Harland & Wolff, royal Mail Line, Royal Navy
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No.112 Kronprinzessin Cecilie launched in 1906
19,360grt for North German Lloyd by Vulcan, Stettin Mount Vernon 1917 US Shipping Board Scrapped Baltimore 1940 Kronprinzessin Cecilie at Bar Harbor, Maine with black funnel tops painted in order to imitate the British liner Olympic USAT Mount Vernon at … Continue reading
No.111 Mauretania launched in 1906
31,938 tons for Cunard Line from Swan Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Newcastle Scrapped in Rosyth 1935 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & Daryl LeBlanc
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Cunard Line, Mauretania, Newcastle, Rosyth, Swan Hunter
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