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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.574 Canada launched in 1935
11,108grt for East Asiatic Co by Nakskov Skibsvaerft, Nakskov Mined, Spurn Head 1939 (off the port of Hull)
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Canada, East Asiatic Co, Hull, Mined, Nakskov, Nakskov Skibsvaerft, Spurn Head
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No.74 Kroonland launched 1902
12,760grt for for Red Star Line by Cramp, Philadelphia Scrapped Genoa 1927 More details at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kroonland 2nd image – Panama Pacific Line steamer SS Kroonland 1923 from James Gordon Steese
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Tagged Cramp, Genoa, Kroonland, Philadelphia, red Star Line
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No.73 Hanoverian launched in 1902
13,507grt for Leyland Line by Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle Mayflower 1903 Dominion Line Cretic 1903 White Star Line Devonian 1923 Leyland Line Scrapped Bo’ness 1929
No.474 Bremen launched 1928
51,656grt for North German Lloyd from Deschimag, AG ‘Weser’ Bremen Fire 1941, although not due to the war. She was later scrapped in Bremerhaven More information at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Bremen_(1928) Image attribution: Steve Walker Color Europa and Bremen Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc
No.572 Duntroon launched in 1935
10,514 Melbourne SS Co by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Tong Hoo 1961 Kie Hock Lydia 1966 Africa Shipping Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1973 Allan Green Collection
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Tagged Duntroon, Kie Hock, Melbourne SS Co, Newcastle, Swan Hunter, Tong Hoo
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No.72 Oscar II launched in 1901
10,012grt for Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (DFDS) by Stephen, Glasgow Scrapped Blyth 1934
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Blyth, DFDS, Glasgow, Oscar II, Stephen
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No.475 Rangitiki launched 1928
16,755grt for New Zealand Shipping Company from John Brown, Clydebank Scrapped in Santander 1962
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Clydebank, John Brown, New Zealand Shipping Co, Rangitiki, Santander
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No.476 Viceroy of India launched 1928
19,648grt for P&O by Stephen, Glasgow Torpedoed by U 407 off Oran 1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Viceroy_of_India Viceroy of India on the 11th of November, 1942
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Tagged Glasgow, P&O, Stephen, torpedoed, U407, Viceroy of India
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The World's Passenger Ships 