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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.1316 Nancowry launched in 1992
14,176GT for Shipping Corporation of India Ltd from Stocznia, Szczecin IMO: 8606434 Arrived Alang 12 Oct 2021 Image attribution: Tony Hogwood on Marine Traffic Bob Scott on Ship Spotting
Posted in ferry, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Alang, IMO: 8606434, Nancowry, Shipping Corporation of India, Stocznia, Szczecin
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No.322 Pine Tree State launched in 1921
14,119grt for US Shipping Board from Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point President Grant 1922 Admiral Oriental Harris 1940 US Navy President Grant 1946 US Maritime Commission Scrapped in Wilmington 1947 Image attribution: Percy Loomis Sperr https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/03/03002.htm USS Harris
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship, US Shipping Board 535ft Class
Tagged Admiral Oriental, Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Harris, Pine Tree Mariner, President Grant, Sparrow's Point, US Maritime Commission, US Navy, US Shipping Board, Wilmington
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No.324 City of Paris launched in 1921
10,902grt for Ellerman Lines from Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Scrapped in Newport 1956 Image attribution: John Crossland
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged City of Paris, Ellerman Line, Newcastle, Newport, Swan Hunter
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No.325 Ausonia launched in 1921
13,912grt for Cunard Line by Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle Scrapped in Castlellon 1965 From 1942 she was a Royal Navy heavy repair ship. The oldest ship in my database that I’ve seen – Gibraltar 1964 Photo from Richard Cox Ausonia in … Continue reading
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Armstrong Whitworth, Ausonia, Castellon, Cunard Line, Newcastle, Royal Navy
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No.326 Balranald launched in 1921
13,039grt for P & O Branch Line from Harland & Wolff, Greenock Scrapped in Troon 1936
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Balranald, Greenock, Harland & Wolff, P&O Branch Line, Troon
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No.327 Laconia launched in 1921
19,680grt for Cunard Line by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Torpedoed by U 156 in the South Atlantic 1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Laconia_(1921) From Rich Turnwald U-156 37-35 Laconia 1942 09 15
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Cunard Line, Laconia, Newcastle, Swan Hunter, torpedoed, U156
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No.329 Palmetto State launched in 1921
13,712grt for US Shipping Board from Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point Pan America 1922 Munson Line Hunter Ligget 1939 US Army Scrapped Baltimore 1948 Image attribution: Percy Loomis Sperr BREMEN and PAN AMERICA in New York. Aug.1, 1931 by Percy … Continue reading
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