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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.
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No.142 Mantua launched in 1909
10,885grt for P & O Line from Caird, Greenock Scrapped Shanghai 1935
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Caird, Greenock, Mantua, P&O, Shanghai
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No.141 Otranto launched in 1909
12,124grt for Orient Steam Nav Co by Workman Clark, Belfast Collision, sank Irish Sea 1918 with huge loss of life Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
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Tagged Belfast, Irish Sea, Orient Line, Otranto, sank, Workman Clark
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No.776 Moçambique launched in 1948
12,976grt for Cia Nacional from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972 Image attribution: Trevor Jones & Luís Miguel Correia Durban Harbour From Rich Turnwald
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Tagged Cia Nacional, Moçambique, Newcastle, Swan Hunter
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No.850 Santa Maria launched in 1952
20,906grt for Cia Colonial by Cockerill, Hoboken Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1973 In the news in 1961 for being hijacked http://ssmaritime.com/Vera-Cruze-Santa-Maria.htm Image attribution: José Luís Proença, Arturo E Braam & Jeronimo Rodriguez Rosales with the Vera Cruz, posted as No.821 on … Continue reading
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Tagged Cia Colonial, cockerill, Hoboken, Santa Maria
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No.847 Général Mangin launched in 1952
12,457 Cie de Nav Fraissinet et Cyprien Fabre from Penhoët, St Nazaire President 1969 Philippine President Line Eastern Queen 1972 Cia de Nav Abeto SA Hizbul Bahr 1977 Bangladesh Shipping Shaheed Salahuddin 1981 Bangladesh Navy Scrapped Chittagong 1985
No.846 City of Exeter launched in 1952
13,345grt for Ellerman Lines by Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mediterranean Sea 1971 MA Karageorgis Tutku 1996 Istanbul Sea Lines Alice 1996 Armon Trading Scrapped Aliaga 1998 Images: Malcolm Cranfield, Ben Ayre & Chris Howell
No.845 Free State Mariner launched in 1952
14,799grt for US Maritime Commission from Bethlehem SB Corp, Sparrow’s Point Monterey 1956 Matson Line (later Flotta Lauro) Monte 2006 Breakers Scrapped Alang 2006 Image attribution: Frank A.Gerhardt, Admeto Verde & Tony Davis
The World's Passenger Ships 