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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.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
No.164 Demosthenes launched in 1911
11,233 Aberdeen Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Newcastle 1931
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Aberdeen Line, Belfast, Demosthenes, Harland & Wolff, Newcastle
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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
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Around Africa, Belfast, Braemar Castle, Faslane, Harland & Wolff, Union Castle
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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
Posted in passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Ansaldo, Evita, FANU, Flota Mercante del Estado, Rio Tunuyan, San Pedro, Sestri Ponente
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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
Posted in passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Belfast, Blue Funnel Line, Harland & Wolff, Hector, Kaohsiung
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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
