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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.450 Sibajak launched in 1927
12,040 for Rotterdam Lloyd from De Schelde, Vlissingen Scrapped in Hong Kong 1959 Image attribution: Rhett Young Joubert & John Gibbard Image attribution: John Gibbard, taken at Southampton 18 May 1958
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged de Schelde, Hong Kong, Rotterdam Lloyd, Sibajak, Vlissingen
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No.100 Kaiserin Auguste Victoria launched in 1905
24,581grt for Hamburg-America Line by Vulcan, Stettin Empress of Scotland 1921 Canadian Pacific Scrapped Blyth 1931
No.451 Cheshire launched 1927
10,560grt for Bibby Line from Fairfield, GlasgowScrapped in Newport 1957 Image from Gordy on Ship Spotting Image from Pamela Ross
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Tagged Bibby Line, Cheshire, Fairfield, Glasgow
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No.99 Virginian launched in 1904
10,754 for Allan Line by Stephen, Glasgow Drottningholm 1920 Swedish-America Line Brasil 1948 Home Lines Homeland 1951 Home Lines Scrapped Trieste 1955
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Tagged Allan line, Brasil, Drottningholm, Glasgow, Home Lines, Homeland, Stephen, Swedish-America, Trieste, Virginian
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No.452 Cap Arcona launched in 1927
27,560grt for Hamburg-South America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Bombed Neustadt in the Bay of Lübeck 1945. Wreck finally broken up in 1949 Tragically, this was one of the largest single-incident maritime losses of life in World War 2 … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay of Lubeck, Blohm & Voss, Bombed, Cap Arcona, Hamburg, Hamburg- South America, Neustadt
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No.952 Yao Hua launched in 1966
10,151 People’s Republic of China from Penhoët, St Nazaire Orient Princess 1986 ROC Maritime Moored in Tianjin since 2003 IMO: 6708109 Image attribution: Don Hazeldine & Hong Kong Cruise Society
No.98 Victorian launched in 1904
10,653grt for Allan Line by Workman Clark, Belfast Marloch 1922 Canadian Pacific Scrapped Milford Haven 1929
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Tagged Allan line, Belfast, Canadian Pacific, Marloch, Milford Haven, Victorian, Workman Clark
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No.453 Albertville launched in 1927
10,338grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Ataliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire Modernised in 1937, lengthened and a single funnel. Bombed Le Havre 1940 Picture taken at Antwerp, spire to the left is the Pilotage building
No.97 Caronia launched in 1904
19,594 Cunard Line by John Brown, Clydebank Taiseiyo Maru 1932 Japanese Breakers Scrapped Osaka 1933 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color Artist is Gordon Bauwens
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Tagged Caronia, Clydebank, John Brown, Osaka, Taiseiyo Maru
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No.454 Laurentic launched in 1927
18,724grt for White Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by U 99 off Ireland in 1940 Image attribution: Steve Walker & Daryl LeBlanc Color Laurentic in Haifa, 1936 during the Palestine disturbances Philippe Martin added – “Môle du … Continue reading
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Tagged Belfast, Bordeaux, Harland & Wolff, Ireland, Laurentic, Palestine, torpedoed, U99, White Star Line
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The World's Passenger Ships 