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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 liner
No.383 Talma launched in 1923
10,000GT for British India Line from Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle Scrapped in Inverkeithing 1949 Image attribution: Allan Green Collection
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged British India, Hawthorn Leslie, Inverkeithing, Newcastle, Talma
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No.295 Montcalm launched in 1920
16,418grt for Canadian Pacific from John Brown, Clydebank HMS Wolfe 1939 British Admiralty Scrapped in Faslane 1952
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged British Admiralty, Canadian Pacific, Clydebank, Faslane, HMS Wolfe, John Brown, Montcalm
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No.1196 Mikhail Sholokhov launched in 1986
12,798GT for USSR Far East Shipping Co from Szczecin, Szczecin IMO:8325420 Mikhail 2004 FESCO Mikhail Sholokhov 2004 FESCO Ougo Foscolo 2004 Foscolos Ugo Foscolo 2007 Foscolos Fos 1 2008 Foscolos Scrapped Alang 2011 Image attribution: William Barber, Ian Lewis & … Continue reading
Posted in ferry, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Far East Shipping Co, IMO:8325420, Mikhail Sholokhov, Ougo Foscolo, Szczecin, USSR
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No.906 Savannah launched July 21, 1959
15,585grt for States Marine Lines Inc by New York SB Co, Camden The first nuclear-powered merchant ship, designed to carry 60 passengers Moored at Baltimore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah Image attribution: Matthew Abbott & Mark Sages
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Blatimore, Camden, New York SB, Savannah, States Marine Lines
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No.873 Niassa launched in 1955
10,912grt for by CNN-Companhia Nacional de Navegacao from Cockerill, Hoboken (Belgium) Scrapped in Bilbao 1979 Image attribution: Luis Miguel Correia & Gordon Dalzell
No.874 Port Melbourne launched in 1955
16,300grt for Port Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Therisos Express 1972 J C Carras Danae 1975 J C Carras Anar 1992 J C Carras Starlight Princess 1992 Prestige Cruises Baltica 1994 Classic International Princess Danae 1996 Classic International Lisboa … Continue reading
No.756 Pretoria Castle launched in 1947
28,705grt for Union-Castle Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast S.A. Oranje 1966 South African Marine Corp Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1975 Image attribution: Don Hazeldine & Beken of Cowes
No.759 Leopoldville launched in 1947
10,901grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Cockerill, Hoboken P.E. Lumumba 1967 Cie Mar Congolaise Scrapped in Rio Grande 1974 Image attribution: JP Hack on Ship Nostalgia
No.384 Stuttgart launched in 1923
13,325grt for North German Lloyd from Vulcan, Stettin Bombed Gdansk/Gdynia 1943
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Bombed, Gdansk, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, Stuttgart, Vulcan Stettin
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No.385 Voltaire launched in 1923
13,248grt for Lamport & Holt by Workman Clark, Belfast Sunk mid-Atlantic by the German raider Thor 1941 General Von Steuben (Norddeutscher Lloyd), SS Voltaire (Lamport and Holt Line) and SS Atlantis (Royal Mail Lines) anchored at Stockholm, Sweden. 1934.
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Belfast, Lamport & Holt, sunk, Thor, Voltaire, Workman Clark
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