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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.83 Arabic launched in 1902
15,801grt for White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by U 24 off Ireland 1915 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Arabic, Harland & Wolff, torpedoed, U24, White Star Line
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No.469 Highland Monarch launched in 1928
14,137grt for Nelson Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Incorporated into Royal Mail Line in 1932 Scrapped in Dalmuir 1960 Images from John Gibbard at Tilbury July 1959
No.1579 Partenope launched in 2001
24,409grt for TTT Lines by Cantieri Navale Visentini, Porto Viro Napoles 2015 Balearia IMO: 9243423 Image copyright: Peter Ferrary
Posted in ferry, Passenger/Cargo, Ro-pax
Tagged Balearia, Cantieri Navale Visentini, IMO: 9243423, Napoles, Partenope, Porto Viro
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No.1078 Stena Trader launched in 1978
18,732grt for Stena Container Line by Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan Stena Transporter 1978 Stena Line Finnrose 1979 Finnlines O/Y Baltic Ferry 1980 Townsend Car Ferries Ltd Pride of Suffolk 1992 P&O European Ferries European Diplomat 2001 P&O Irish Sea Diplomat … Continue reading
No.471 Highland Chieftain launched in 1928
14,131grt for Nelson Line for Harland & Wolff, Belfast Incorporated into Royal Mail Line in 1932 Calpean Star 1959 Calpe Shipping Sank off Montevideo 1960 Image attribution: Gilberto Hornstein & Hvalfangstmuseet Sandefjord Shown in RML colours discharging meat at Z … Continue reading
No.76 Corinthic launched in 1902
12,231grt for White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Sailed mainly Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped Wallsend 1932 She was built for the combined companies of White Star & Shaw Savill Lines, operating passenger and cargo services to and … Continue reading
No.576 Derbyshire launched in 1935
11,650grt for Bibby Line by Fairfield, Glasgow Scrapped in Hong Kong 1964 2 pre-war photos, Derbyshire on the Clyde, leaving for N Africa 1942 photo Malcolm Cranfield, and post war
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Bibby Line, Derbyshire, Fairfield, Glasgow, Hong Kong
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No.575 Gneisenau launched in 1935
18,160grt for North German Lloyd by Deschimag AG ‘Weser’ Bremen Mined Gedser 1943 Old postcard Gneisenau in Bremen from Frank Scherer Rich Turnwald’s photo
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Bremen, Deschimag, gedser, Gneisenau, Mined, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, Weser
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No.71 Merion launched in 1901
11,621grt for American Line by John Brown, Clydebank Tiger 1914 British Admiralty (A dummy ship for HMS Tiger) Torpedoed by UB8 off Mudros 1915 and as HMS Tiger
Posted in Emigrant Ship, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Admiralty, American Line, Clydebank, HMS Tiger, John Brown, Merion, Mudros, torpedoed, UB8
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No.1070 Stena Shipper launched in 1977
18,799grt for Stena Container Line Ltd by Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan Norsky 1978 Stena Line Merzario Ionia 1980 Merzario Constellation Enterprise 1981 Constellation Lines N & T 700 1987 Nordstrom & Thulin Graip 1987 Nordstrom & Thulin Chong Ming Dao … Continue reading
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, Ro-pax
Tagged Aliaga, Chong Ming Dao, Constellation Enterprise, Graip, Kilmore, Merzario Ionia, N&T 700, Norsky, Stena, Stena Shipper
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The World's Passenger Ships 