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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: Passenger/Cargo
No.627 Andes launched in 1939
25,689grt for Royal Mail Lines by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Ghent 1971 Image attribution: Beken of Cowes ANDES on trials ANDES arriving in Oslo in May 31st 1945, with the Norwegian Government in exile on board
Posted in Cruise ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Andes, Belfast, Ghent, Harland & Wolff, royal Mail Line
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No.628 Oranjefontein launched in 1940
10,544grt for United Netherlands Navigation Co by Smit Jr, Rotterdam Fontein 1967 Breakers Scrapped in Bilbao 1969 Image attribution: Frank van der Heul, Allan Green Collection & Andreas Hoppe
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Bilbao, Fontein, Oranjefontein, Rotterdam, Smit Jr, United Netherlands
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No.630 Baudouinville launched in 1939
13,761grt for Compagnie Maritime by Belge by Cockerill, Hoboken Lindau 1942 German Navy Sunk Nantes 1944, raised 1946. scrapped Antwerp 1947 Image attribution: Ships Nostalgia Frederik Janssens
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Antwerp, Baudouinville, cockerill, Compagnie Maritime Belge, German Navy, Hoboken, Lindau, Nantes
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No.244 Suwa Maru launched in 1914
10,927grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed Wake Island Pacific 1943 Image attribution: http://combinedfleet.com Suwa Maru in Singapore in the 1930s whilst the Empress of Britain was on her World Cruise Suwa Maru at Wake Island
No.246 Ile de Cuba launched in 1914
11,953grt for CGT French Line from Chantiers et Ateliers de Provence at Port de Bouc Lafayette 1914 CGT French Line Mexique 1928 CGT French Line Mined Le Verdon 1940 Lafayette as a hospital ship Lafayette in Le Havre before 1928
No.700 General A W Greely launched in 1944
10,654grt for US Navy from Kaiser, Richmond California Hawaii Bear 1969 Pacific Far East Line Austral Glade 1976 Farrell Lines Pacific Enterprise 1979 American Pacific Caribe Enterprise 1982 American Pacific Scrapped 1986 https://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22141.htm
No.1292 Stena Traveller launched in 1991
18,332GT for Stena Line Launched Bruce Shipyard and towed to Fosen Mek, Rissa for completion TT Traveller 1992 TT line Stena Traveller 1995 Stena Line TT Traveller 1997 TT line Stena Traveller 2002 Stena Line Lisco Patria 2004 Lisco Patria … Continue reading
Posted in ferry, Passenger/Cargo, Ro-pax
Tagged DFDS Seaways, Fosen Mek, IMO: 8917390, Lisco, Lisco Patria, Patria Seaways, Rissa, Stena Line, Stena Traveller, TT Line, TT Traveller
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No.1300 Repubblica di Roma launched in 1991
35,152GT for Grimaldi Cia di Navigazione from Fincantieri, Castellammare IMO: 9009504 Fire 2014 then scrapped Aliaga Accommodation for 57 passengers & 3 named images from Marine Traffic
No.393 Minnetonka launched in 1924
21,998grt for Atlantic Transport Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Bo’ness 1934 Like her sister, short-lived due to the Depression
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Atlantic Transport, Belfast, Bo'ness, Harland & Wolff, Minnetonka
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