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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.177 Indrapura launched in 1911
10,286grt for Indra Line by Swan Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Newcastle Port Adelaide 1916 Commonwealth & Dominion Torpedoed by U 81 off Fastnet 1917 David Little collection
No.176 Talthybius launched in 1911
10,224grt Blue Funnel Line from Scott’s, Greenock Taruyasu Maru 1942 Japan Empire Evenlode 1947 Ministry of War Transport Scrapped in Briton Ferry 1949 An interesting history, sank in Singapore and raised by the Japanese, later mined, sank and raised by … Continue reading
No.867 Uige launched in 1954
10,001grt for Comphania Colonial de Navegacao by Cockerill, Hoboken Scrapped Lisbon 1980 Image attribution: Luis Miguel Correia Uíge, formerly Carmona, is a provincial capital city in northwestern Angola – pronounced Weej
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Tagged Cia Colonial, cockerill, Hoboken, Lisbon, Uige
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No.863 Clement Ader launched in 1953
11,349grt for Chargeurs Réunis by Ataliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire Alessandro Volta 1957 ‘Italia’ SAN Scrapped in La Spezia 1979 From Bridgeman
No.862 City of Durban launched in 1953
13,343grt for Ellerman Lines from Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mediterranean Dolphin 1971 MA Karageorgis Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1974 Mediterranean Dolphin 1971 MA KarageorgisScrapped in Kaohsiung 1974, far left of the photoImage from: http://global-mariner.com/index114WhenShipsDie.html
No.772 Claude Bernard launched in 1948
12,021grt for Chargeurs Réunis from Ateliers & Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire IMO 5166574 J. G. Fichte 1962 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Sunrise IV 1979 Estrella Christal Pegancia 1980 Estrella Christal Scrapped in Karachi 1981
No.771 Peleus launched in 1948
10,096 Blue Funnel Line from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead IMO 5273298 Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972
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Tagged Birkenhead, Blue Funnel Line, Cammell Laird, IMO 5273298, Kaohsiung, Peleus
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No.175 Kaiser Franz Josef I launched in 1911
12,567grt for Unione Austriaca from Cant Nav Triestino, Monfalcone General Diaz 1919 Cosulich Soc Triestina Presidente Wilson 1920 Cosulich Soc Triestina Gange 1929 Lloyd Triestino Marco Polo 1936 Adriatica SAN Sunk as a block-ship 1944, scrapped La Spezia An Austrian … Continue reading
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Tagged Adriatica, Austrian, Cant Nav Triestino, Cantieri Navale, Cosulich Soc Triestina, Gange, General Diaz, Kaiser Franz Josef I, La Spezia, Lloyd Triestino, Marco Polo, Monfalcone, Presidente Wilson, Unione Austriaca
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No.173 Vandyck launched in 1911
10,328grt for Lamport & Holt from Workman Clark, Belfast Scuttled South Atlantic 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Vandyck_(1911)
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Tagged Belfast, Lamport & Holt, South Atlantic, Vandyck, Workman Clark
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No.171 Waimana launched in 1911
10,389grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Workman Clark, Belfast Herminius 1926 Aberdeen Line Waimana 1932 Shaw, Savill & Albion Empire Waimana 1941 Ministry of War Transport Waimana 1946 Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped Milford Haven 1952 Empire Waimana 1941 … Continue reading
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