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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.1117 Finnhawk launched in 1980
33,163GT for Finnlines O/Y Oskarshamn Varv AB, Oskarshamn Malmo Link 1990 Finnlines O/Y Ropax 1 2007 Channel Ferries Aqua Hercules 2011 Salem Al Makrani Cargo Laid up in Turkey in 2013 – any more information? Image attribution: Jorg Friedrich, named … Continue reading
Posted in ferry, Passenger/Cargo, Ro-pax
Tagged Aqua Hercules, Finnhawk, Finnlines, Malmo Link, Oskarshamn, Oskarshamn Varv, Ropax 1, Turkey
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No.1113 Easy Rider launched in 1980
13,144grt for Castello Hellas by Nuovi Cantieri Apuania, Marina di Carrera IMO: 7826855 Seafreight Highway 1987 Sealink UK Boyana 1988 SOMAT Activ Marine 1990 SOMAT Urd 1991 Scandlines Nearchos K 2025 Creta Cargo Lines Image attribution: Marc Riedel & 3 named … Continue reading
No.149 Maloja launched in 1910
12,431grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mined off Dover 1916 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Dover, Harland & Wolff, Maloja, Mined, P&O
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No.147 Rangatira launched in 1909
10,118grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Workman Clark, Belfast Ashore on Robben Island, Table Bay, Cape Town 1916 http://nzmaritime.co.nz/Rangatira1909.htm Image attribution: NZ National Maritime Museum
No.857 City of York launched in 1953
13,345grt for Ellerman Lines by Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mediterranean Sky 1971 MA Karageorgis Siterranean Sky 1987 Argentina Mediterranean Sky 1991 MA Karageorgis Sank Elevsis 2003 Image attribution: Fotoflite, Neven Jerković & Henry Brayshaw
No.856 Wirakel launched in 1953
10,714grt for Phs van Ommeren NV by P. Smit, Rotterdam Kydon 1968 Cretan Maritime City of Taranto 1989 Lelakis Group She was a converted oil tanker and was scrapped in Aliağa in 1998 Image attribution: Χαριλαος Ντιγριντακης
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged City of Taranto, Cretan Maritime, Kydon, Lelakis, P Smit Jr, Phs van Ommeren, Rotterdam, Wirakel
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No.854 Pine Tree Mariner launched in 1952
14,812grt for US Maritime Commission from Bethlehem Steel Co, Quincy Mariposa 1956 Matson Line Jin Jiang 1983 China Ocean Shipping Queen of Jin Jiang 1992 COS Heng Li 1995 COS Nisarutn 1996 COS Scrapped Alang 1996 Images: Chris Howell, James … Continue reading
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