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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.613 Dominion Monarch launched in 1938
27,155grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Newcastle Dominion Monarch Maru 1962 Breakers Scrapped in Osaka 1962 Image attribution: Skyfoto’s Fotoflite She is the ship in the opening sequence of ‘Call the Midwife Dominion Monarch … Continue reading
No.615 Tjitjalengka launched in 1938
10,972grt for Java-China-Java Line by Nederlandsche SB Mij, Amsterdam Scrapped in Hong Kong 1968 Served as a hospital ship in WW2 in the Far East When I was providing individual ship histories a woman wrote to me from Brazil – … Continue reading
No.618 Ancon launched in 1938
10,021grt for Panama Railroad by Bethlehem Steel Co, Quincy State of Maine 1963 Maine Maritime Academy Scrapped in Wilmington 1973 ANCON during WW2 Post-WWII image of SS Ancon returning to the Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA., 13 June 1947, after being … Continue reading
No.620 Pretoria Castle launched in 1938
17,392 Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Warwick Castle 1946 Union-Castle Line Scrapped in Barcelona 1962 Carrier HMS Pretoria Castle in WW2 Warwick Castle in Aden
No.232 Euripides launched in 1914
14,947grt for Aberdeen Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Akaroa 1932 Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped in Antwerp 1954 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color The Euripides at Princes Pier, Port Melbourne
No.223 Ulysses launched in 1913
14,499grt for Blue Funnel Line by Workman Clark, Belfast Torpedoed by U160 off Palm Beach 1942
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Tagged Belfast, Blue Funnel Line, torpedoed, U160, Ulysses, Workman Clark
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No.227 Borda launched in 1913
11,136grt for P & O Line Branch Line from Caird, Greenock Scrapped in Japan 1930
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Tagged Borda, Caird, Greenock, Japan, P&O Branch Line
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No.871 Port Sydney launched in 1954
16,310grt for Port Line from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle IMO number: 5282627 Akrotiri Express 1972 J C Carras Daphne 1975 J C Carras Switzerland 1997 Leisure Cruises Ocean Monarch 2005 Page & Moy Princess Daphne 2008 Classic International Daphne … Continue reading
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