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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.884 Gripsholm launched in 1956
23,191grt for Swedish America Line from Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente Navarino 1974 MA Karageorgis Samantha 1983 Multiship Italia Regent Sea 1984 Regent Cruises Sea 1997 Antonios Lelakis Sank en route breakers 2001 Image attribution: Bob Scott, Gordon Dalzell & Rick Garcia
No.234 Johann Heinrich Burchard launched in 1914
19,980grt for Hamburg-America Line from Tecklenborg, Geestemunde Limburgia 1920 Royal Holland Lloyd Reliance 1922 United American Line Reliance 1926 Hamburg-America Line Fire at Hamburg 1938, scrapped Bremerhaven Image attribution: Steve Walker Color RELIANCE in Copenhagen in 1933 Franz Grasser worked … Continue reading
No.421 Berlin launched in 1925
15,286grt for North German Lloyd by Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack Admiral Nakhimov 1949 USSR Collision, sank Black Sea with heavy loss of life 1986 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Admiral_Nakhimov for a more detailed history, including sinkings in 1945 & 1947. Image attribution: Dragomir Novakovic & … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Admiral Nakhimov, Berlin, Bremer Vulcan, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, sank, USSR, Vegesack
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No.422 Rawalpindi launched in 1925
16,619grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rawalpindi Sunk North Atlantic 1939 in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The Captain Edward Kennedy RN, killed in action with 237 others, was the … Continue reading
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Kennedy, P&O, Rawalpindi
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No.424 Conte Biancamano launched in 1925
24,416grt for Lloyd Sabaudo from Beardmore, Glasgow USS Hermitage 1942 US Navy Conte Biancamano 1947 Italia SAN Scrapped in La Spezia 1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Conte_Biancamano Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & Don Gammon USS Hermitage Image attribution: Don Gammon
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Beardmore, Conte Biancamano, Glasgow, Italia SAN, La Spezia, Lloyd Sabaudo, US Navy, USS Hermitage
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No.423 Caledonia launched in 1925
17,046grt for Anchor Line from Stephen, Glasgow HMS Scotstoun 1939 Royal Navy Torpedoed by U25 off Inishtrahull 1940 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color HMS Scotstoun
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Anchor Line, Caledonia, HMS Scotstoun, Royal Navy, Stephen Glasgow, torpedoed, U25
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No.425 Rajputana launched in 1925
16,568grt for P & O Line from Harland & Wolff, Greenock Torpedoed by U 108 off Ireland in 1941 Image attribution: Norman Stewart
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Greenock, Harland & Wolff, P&O, Rajputana, torpedoed, U108
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No.428 Asturias launched in 1925
22,071grt for Royal Mail Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Originally with two funnels Scrapped in Faslane 1957 Image attribution: John Wilson, State Library of Queensland & Allan Green Collection
Posted in Emigrant Ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Asturias, Belfast, Faslane, Harland & Wolff, royal Mail Line
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The World's Passenger Ships 