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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.788 Bloemfontein Castle launched in 1949
18,400 tons for Union-Castle Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast 181.3m x 23.3m 18.5 kts 721 passengers Patris 1959 Chandris Line Mediterranean Island 1979 Karageorgis Line Mediterranean Star 1981 Karageorgis Line Terra 1987 Breakers Scrapped in Pakistan 1987 Patris in … Continue reading
No.786 Hector launched in 1949
10,125grt for Blue Funnel Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972 Image attribution: Fotoflite Image by Trevor Jones
Posted in passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Belfast, Blue Funnel Line, Harland & Wolff, Hector, Kaohsiung
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No.784 Rangitane launched in 1949
21,867grt for New Zealand Shipping Co. from John Brown, Clydebank Jan 1968 Astroguardo Oriental Esmeralda 1968 CY Tung Group Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1976 Image attribution: Chris Howell
No.782 Jason launched in 1949
10,160grt for Blue Funnel Line from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972 Photo from Chris Howell
Posted in passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Blue Funnel Line, Jason, Kaohsiung, Newcastle, Swan Hunter
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No.781 Rio Jachal launched in 1949
11,342grt for Flota Mercante del Estado from Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente Fire, scrapped Buenos Aires 1970 Image attribution: http://histarmar.com.ar
No.140 Osterley launched in 1909
12,129grt for Orient Steam Navigation Co by London & Glasgow Ship Building, Govan Scrapped in Glasgow 1930
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Glasgow, Govan, London & Glasgow Ship Building, Orient SN Co, Osterley
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No.139 Vasari launched in 1908
10,117grt for Lamport & Holt by Raylton Dixon, Middlesbrough Arctic Queen 1928 Hellyer Brothers Pishchevaya Industriya 1935 Soviet Union Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1979, aged 71 Pishchevaya Industriya photo by Sergey Konstantinov
