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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.570 Ville d’Alger launched in 1935
10,172grt for CGT French Line by Penhoët, St Nazaire (although sunk from Aug ’44-Feb ’45) Poseidon 1966 Typaldos Scrapped in La Spezia 1969 From maitres-du-vent.blog
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged CGT, French Line, La Spezia, Penhoet, Poseidon, St Nazaire, Typaldos, Ville d'Alger
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No.70 Walmer Castle launched in 1901
12,546grt for Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Blyth 1932 Walmer is 7 miles north of Dover, Kent Image copyright: Bandcstaffregister
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Tagged Blyth, Harland & Wolff, Union-Castle Line, Walmer Castle
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No.477 Leopoldville launched in 1928
11,172grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Cockerill, Hoboken, Belgium Modernised 1936/37 Torpedoed by U 486, off Cherbourg 1944 with tragic loss of life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_L%C3%A9opoldville_(1928)
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Tagged Cherbourg, cockerill, Compagnie Maritime Belge, Hoboken, Leopoldville, torpedoed, U486
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No.977 Mikhail Lermontov launched 1970
19,872grt USSR (Baltic Shipping Company) from Mathias-Thesen Yard, Wismar Aground Port Gore, New Zealand & sank 1986 IMO:7042318 The 5th of 5 Poet class liners/cruise ships Image attribution: Eric Sanders, Leo Johannes, Masato Nishiguchi, & Mike Cornwall
No.569 Potsdam launched in 1935
17,528grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Empire Jewel 1945 Ministry of Transport Empire Fowey 1946 Ministry of Transport Safina-E-Hujjaj 1960 Pan-Islamic SS Co (and a regular caller in Aden) Scrapped Gadani Beach 1976 Potsdam at Suez Empire … Continue reading
No.69 Noordam launched in 1901
12,531grt for Holland-America Line Harland & Wolff, Belfast Kungsholm 1922 Chartered to Swedish-America Line Noordam 1924 Holland-America Line Scrapped Netherlands 1928 Image copyright Kungsholm: http://Captainalbert.com Chartered for just under two years to the Swedish America Line
No.478 Duchess of York launched 1928
20,021grt for Canadian Pacific from John Brown, Clydebank Bombed Oporto 1943
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Tagged Bombed, Canadian Pacific, Clydebank, Duchess of York, John Brown, Oporto
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No.568 Pilsudski launched in 1934
14,294grt for Gdynia-America Line by CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Mined off the River Humber 1939 Colour photo with the Kungsholm (No.468) and Stella Polaris
No.479 Virginia launched 1928
20,773grt for American Line from Newport News at Newport News Brazil 1938 Moore & McCormack Lines IMO: 5050854 Scrapped in New York 1964 Image attribution: Joe Wilhelm, artist & Gamle skipsbilder
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Tagged American Line, Brazil, IMO: 5050854, Moore McCormack, New York, Newport News, Virginia
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No.567 Queen Mary launched in 1934
81,237grt for Cunard-White Star Line from John Brown, Clydebank. Last voyage 1967. Hotel, Long Beach California Image copyright: Beken of Cowes & a postcard RMS Queen Mary at Balboa, en route to Long Beach She is No.567 on my database … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Capt Treasure Jones, Clydebank, Cunard Line, John Brown, Long Beach, Queen Mary, Southampton
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The World's Passenger Ships 