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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.496 Western Prince launched in 1929
10,926grt for Furness, Withy & Co from Napier & Miller, Glasgow Torpedoed by U96 off Orkney in 1940 A single photo, plus a model of her identical sister Northern Prince. Another sister Southern Prince became the ANNA C
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Furness Withy, Glasgow, Napier & Miller, Orkney, torpedoed, Western Prince
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No.481 Asama Maru launched 1928
16,975grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed China Sea 1944 Image attribution: Steve Walker & Daryl LeBlanc Color Image from Panama Maru Naoyuki
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Asama Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen, torpedoed
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No.441 Avila launched in 1926
12,872grt for Blue Star Line from John Brown, Clydebank Avila Star 1929 Blue Star Line Torpedoed by U 201 in the Atlantic 1942 Replacing the bonnet on the rear funnel of the blue funnel liner AVILA STAR. London docks
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Avila, Avila Star, Blue Star Line, Clydebank, John Brown, torpedoed
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No.400 Monte Sarmiento launched in 1924
13,625grt for Hamburg-South America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Bombed Kiel 1942 Monte Sarmiento in Bergen Summer of 1925
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Blohm & Voss, Bombed, Hamburg, Hamburg- South America, Kiel, Monte Sarmiento
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No.320 Vandyck launched 1921
13,233grt for Lamport & Holt by Workman Clark, Belfast Bombed Norway 1940
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Bombed, Lamport & Holt, Norway, Vandyck, Workman Clark
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No.240 Almanzora launched in 1914
16,034grt for Royal Mail Lines by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Blyth 1948
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Almanzora, Blefast, Blyth, Harland & Wolff, royal Mail Line
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No.480 Staffordshire launched 1928
10,654grt Bibby Line from Fairfield, Glasgow Stafford Maru 1959 Mitsui Bussan Scrapped in Osaka 1959 Image from Malcolm Cranfield
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Fairfield, Glasgow, Osaka, Staffordshire
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No.120 Chiyo Maru launched in 1907
13,426grt for Toyo Kisen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Ran aground Hong Kong 1916 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & Rich Turnwald Collection
Posted in Japanese, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Chiyo Maru, Hong Kong, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Toyo Kisen
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No.760 Lavoisier launched in 1948
11,968grt for Chargeurs Réunis by Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire Riviera Prima 1961 Commerciale Marittime Viking Princess 1964 A/S Sigline Fire, scrapped in Bilbao 1966 Rich Turnwald image
No.840 City of Port Elizabeth launched in 1952
13,363grt for Ellerman Line by Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mediterranean Island 1971 MA Karageorgis Mediterranean Sun 1975 MA Karageorgis Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1980 IMO 5074020 Not the major conversion that you will see later on the other sisters Illustration by Henry Brayshaw
The World's Passenger Ships 