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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.952 Yao Hua launched in 1966
10,151 People’s Republic of China from Penhoët, St Nazaire Orient Princess 1986 ROC Maritime Moored in Tianjin since 2003 IMO: 6708109 Image attribution: Don Hazeldine & Hong Kong Cruise Society
No.98 Victorian launched in 1904
10,653grt for Allan Line by Workman Clark, Belfast Marloch 1922 Canadian Pacific Scrapped Milford Haven 1929
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Allan line, Belfast, Canadian Pacific, Marloch, Milford Haven, Victorian, Workman Clark
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No.453 Albertville launched in 1927
10,338grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Ataliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire Modernised in 1937, lengthened and a single funnel. Bombed Le Havre 1940 Picture taken at Antwerp, spire to the left is the Pilotage building
No.97 Caronia launched in 1904
19,594 Cunard Line by John Brown, Clydebank Taiseiyo Maru 1932 Japanese Breakers Scrapped Osaka 1933 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color Artist is Gordon Bauwens
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Caronia, Clydebank, John Brown, Osaka, Taiseiyo Maru
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No.454 Laurentic launched in 1927
18,724grt for White Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by U 99 off Ireland in 1940 Image attribution: Steve Walker & Daryl LeBlanc Color Laurentic in Haifa, 1936 during the Palestine disturbances Philippe Martin added – “Môle du … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Bordeaux, Harland & Wolff, Ireland, Laurentic, Palestine, torpedoed, U99, White Star Line
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No.96 Dakota launched in 1904
20,714 Great Northern SS Co by Eastern SB, Groton, Connecticut Aground Yokohama 1907 Image from Rich Turnwald Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
No.455 Conte Grande launched in 1927
25,661grt for Lloyd Sabaudo from Stabilimento Tecnico, Trieste Monticello 1942 US Navy Conte Grande 1947 Italia SAN Scrapped in La Spezia 1961 Image attribution: Steve Walker & Rhett Young Joubert Color
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Conte Grande, Itaalia SAN, La Spezia, Lloyd Sabaudo, Monticello, Stabilimento Tecnico, Trieste, US Navy
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No.955 Shota Rustaveli launched in 1967
20,146grt USSR (Black Sea Shipping Company) Mathias-Thesen Yard, Wismar Assedo 2000 Kaalbye Shipping (Assedo is Odessa backwards) IMO:6707753 Scrapped Alang 2003 Named after the Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli Image attribution: Mike Cornwall, Carlo Martinelli, me, Tony Davis & Neven Jerkovic
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Alang, Assedo, Black Sea Shipping, IMO:6707753, Mathias-Thesen Yard, Odessa, Shota Rustaveli, USSR, Wismar
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No.95 Servian launched in 1903
18,072grt Originally christened as the SS Servian, she was built in 1903 by Harland and Wolff, Ltd. of Belfast for the Wilson & Furness-Leyland Line, a subsidiary of International Mercantile Marine Co. spearheaded by J.P. Morgan. After plans for a … Continue reading
No.456 Bermuda launched 1927
19,086grt for Furness, Withy & Co from Workman Clark, Belfast Fire in Bermuda 1931, towed to Belfast for repairs where fire broke out again. Her engines were removed and the hulk was towed to Scotland for breaking but she ran … Continue reading
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