Category Archives: Passenger/Cargo

No.168 Zealandic launched in 1911

10,898grt for White Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mamilius 1926 Aberdeen Line Mamari 1932 Shaw, Savill & Albion HMS Hermes 1940 Royal Navy ( a dummy ship for the aircraft carrier) Bombed Cromer 1941 Maamilius Mamari HMS Hermes

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No.165 Remuera launched in 1911

11,276 New Zealand Shipping Company by Denny, Dumbarton Bombed off Rattray Head 1940, Aberdeenshire

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No.164 Demosthenes launched in 1911

11,233 Aberdeen Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Newcastle 1931

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No.842 Braemar Castle launched in 1952

17,029grt for Union-Castle Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Faslane 1966 2nd Image attribution: John Gibbard Braemar Castle in Aden Braemar Castle in the Suez Canal

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No.790 Rio Tunuyan launched in 1949

11,317 Flota Mercante del Estado by Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente Evita 1952 Flota Mercante del Estado Rio Tunuyan 1955 FANU Scrapped in San Pedro 1977 RIO TUNUYAN (ex. EVITA) a Victor Scriven slide from Rich Turnwald

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No.789 Perseus launched in 1949

10,109grt for Blue Funnel Line by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1973 Image from Kevin Blair Image from Malcolm Cranfield Image from George Robinson

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No.787 Eva Peron launched in 1949

12,627grt for Cia Argentina de Nav Dodero from Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow Uruguay 1955 Cia Argentina de Nav Dodero Scrapped in San Pedro 1973 Eva Peron photo by Hans Richard Removal of the Eva Peron name, photo from ‎Germán Symcha‎ Uruguay 1955 … Continue reading

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No.786 Hector launched in 1949

10,125grt for Blue Funnel Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972 Image attribution: Fotoflite Image by Trevor Jones

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No.785 Patroclus launched in 1949

10,109grt for Blue Funnel Line from Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow Philoctetes 1972 Blue Funnel Line Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1973 Image by Kevin Blair Image from David Shackleton Image from Trevor Jones

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No.784 Rangitane launched in 1949

21,867grt for New Zealand Shipping Co. from John Brown, Clydebank Jan 1968 Astroguardo Oriental Esmeralda 1968 CY Tung Group Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1976 Image attribution: Chris Howell

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