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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.839 Monasterio de Guadalupe launched in 1951
10,226grt for Empresa Nacional Elcano by Soc Española de Constructions Navales, Bilbao Guadalupe 1952 Cia Trasatlantica Scrapped in Castellon 1973
No.912 Empress of Canada launched in 1960
27,284grt for Canadian Pacific from Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mardi Gras 1972 Carnival Cruise Line Star of Texas 1994 Gold Star Cruises Lucky Star 1994 Gold Star Cruises Apollon 1995 Royal Olympic Apollo 2003 In lay up and final voyage Scrapped Alang … Continue reading
No.387 Slamat launched in 1923
11,406grt for Rotterdam Lloyd from De Schelde, Vlissingen Bombed Nauplia 1941 in the Battle of Greece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Slamat
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Bombed, de Schelde, Greece, Rotterdam Lloyd, Slamat, Vlissingen
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No.299 Empress of Canada launched in 1920
21,517grt for Canadian Pacific from Fairfield, Glasgow Torpedoed by Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci, South Atlantic 1943 Of approximately 1,800 people on board, 392 died. 149 of the fatalities were Italian prisoners of war Photo: Steve Walker Color & Edwin … Continue reading
No.1682 Costa Serena launched in 2006
114,147GT for Costa Crociere S.p.A from Fincantieri, Sestri Ponente IMO:9343132 Image attribution: Vitor Francisco & four named images from Marine Traffic
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger liner
Tagged Costa Crociere, Costa Serena, fincantieri, IMO: 9343132, Sestri Ponente
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No.300 Buckeye State launched in 1920
1920grt for 14,123 US Shipping Board by Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point President Taft 1922 Pacific Mail SS Co Williard A. Holbrook 1941 US Army Scrapped Maryland 1952 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22044.htm Willard A. Holbrook in Australia
No.389 Camranh launched in 1923
10,193grt for Chargeurs Réunis from Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Nantes Brazza 1927 Chargeurs Réunis Torpedoed by U 37 off Oporto in 1940 Images from Rich Turnwald Collection
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, Brazza, Camranh, Chargeurs Reunis, Nantes, Oporto, torpedoed
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No.390 Ascania launched in 1923
14,013grt for Cunard Line from Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Scrapped in Newport 1957 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color – ASCANIA & CARINTHIA Montreal 1956
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Armstrong Whitworth, Ascania, Cunard Line, Newcastle, Newport
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No.891 Sylvania launched in 1956
21,989grt for Cunard Line from John Brown, Clydebank Fairwind 1968 Fairwind Shipping (Sitmar) Sitmar Fairwind 1988 Sitmar Cruises Dawn Princess 1988 Princess Cruises Albatros 1993 Phoenix Reisen Genoa 2004 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2004 Image: Vincent Neale, Brian Fisher, Masato Nishiguchi … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Alang, Albatros, Clydebank, Cunard Line, Dawn Princess, Fairwind, Genoa, John Brown, Phoenix Reisen, Princess Cruises, Sitmar, Sitmar Fairwind, Sylvania
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The World's Passenger Ships 