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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.96 Dakota launched in 1904
20,714 Great Northern SS Co by Eastern SB, Groton, Connecticut Aground Yokohama 1907 Image from Rich Turnwald Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
No.455 Conte Grande launched in 1927
25,661grt for Lloyd Sabaudo from Stabilimento Tecnico, Trieste Monticello 1942 US Navy Conte Grande 1947 Italia SAN Scrapped in La Spezia 1961 Image attribution: Steve Walker & Rhett Young Joubert Color
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Conte Grande, Itaalia SAN, La Spezia, Lloyd Sabaudo, Monticello, Stabilimento Tecnico, Trieste, US Navy
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No.955 Shota Rustaveli launched in 1967
20,146grt USSR (Black Sea Shipping Company) Mathias-Thesen Yard, Wismar Assedo 2000 Kaalbye Shipping (Assedo is Odessa backwards) IMO:6707753 Scrapped Alang 2003 Named after the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli Image attribution: Mike Cornwall, Carlo Martinelli, me, Tony Davis & Neven Jerkovic
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Alang, Assedo, Black Sea Shipping, IMO:6707753, Mathias-Thesen Yard, Odessa, Shota Rustaveli, USSR, Wismar
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No.95 Servian launched in 1903
18,072grt Originally christened as the SS Servian, she was built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff, Ltd. of Belfast for the Wilson & Furness-Leyland Line, a subsidiary of International Mercantile Marine Co. spearheaded by J.P. Morgan. After plans for a … Continue reading
No.456 Bermuda launched 1927
19,086grt for Furness, Withy & Co from Workman Clark, Belfast Fire in Bermuda 1931, towed to Belfast for repairs where fire broke out again. Her engines were removed and the hulk was towed to Scotland for breaking but she ran … Continue reading
No.94 Scotian launched in 1903
18,168grt for Harland & Wolff, Belfast by Harland & Wolff, Belfast The order was cancelled, she was uncompleted for many months and laid up until purchased by Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) of Hamburg, Germany in 1906 President Lincoln 1907 Hamburg-America … Continue reading
No.93 Baltic launched in 1903
23,884grt for White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Japan 1933 Coloured by Steve Walker 1904 White Star piers New York
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Blatic, Harland & Wolff, Japan, White Star Line
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No.458 Christiaan Huygens launched 1927
15,637grt from Stoomv Mij ‘Nederland’ for Nederlandsche SB Mij, Amsterdam Mined Netherlands 1945 Frank Thomas added ‘She struck a mine leaving River Scheldt in August ’45, her wreck is still there’
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Amsterdam, Christiaan Huygens, Mined, Nederland, Nederlandsche, Netherlands, Stoomv Mij
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No.958 Queen Elizabeth 2 launched 20 September 1967
Maiden voyage 2 May 1969 65,863grt 70,327GT Cunard Line by John Brown, Clydebank Queen Elizabeth 2 left Southampton Docks for the final time 11 November 2008 Now an hotel in Dubai IMO: 6725418 Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc, Andrew Petrie, John … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Clydebank, Cunard Line, Dubai, IMO: 6725418, John Brown, Queen Elizabeth 2, Southampton
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The World's Passenger Ships 