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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.163 Titanic, launched 1911
46,329grt for White Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Sank North Atlantic April 1912 with huge loss of life. Posted on the 111th anniversary of her loss. Image attribution: Daryl LeBlanc Color
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Harland & Wolff, Iceberg, Titanic, Tragedy, White Starr line
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No.402 Oronsay launched in 1924
20,001grt for Orient Line by John Brown, Clydebank Torpedoed by Italian submarine Archimede off West Africa 1942. She survived an attack at St Nazaire when the Lancastria was lost. My father was aboard when she was bombed off Ireland in … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Archimede, Clydebank, John Brown, Lancastria, Orient SN Co, Oronsay, St Nazaire, torpedoed
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No.46 Main launched in 1900
10,067grt for North German Lloyd by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. Scrapped 1925 An interesting history at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Main_(1900) particularly with the lucky escape after the fire
Posted in Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Main, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd
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No.546 Champlain launched in 1931
28,124grt for CGT French Line by Penhoët, St Nazaire Mined La Pallice 1940 Image copyright: Daryl LeBlanc and Steve Walker Color
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged CGT, Champlain, French Line, La Pallice, Mined, Penhoet, St Nazaire
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No.596 Circassia launched in 1937
11,137grt for Anchor Line by Fairfield, Glasgow Scrapped in Alicante 1966
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Alicante, Anchor Line, Circassia, Fairfield, Glasgow
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No.466 Nieuw Zeeland launched in 1928
10,906grt for Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij from Rotterdamsche DD Mij Torpedoed by U380 in the Mediterranean 1942; not the U407 in many publications Bridge photo 21 July 1930
No.922 Funchal launched & in service in 1961
10,031grt for Empresa Insulana from Helsingor Skibsc, Helsingor Laid up Lisbon IMO: 5124162 More details of her 60 year career at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Funchal Image attribution: Erik Ask, Vitor Francisco, Tony Davis & a recent photo from Luis Miguel Correia
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Empresa Insulana, Funchal, Helsingor, Lisbon
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No.495 Campana launched in 1929
10,816grt for Société Générale de Transports Maritimes (SGTM) from Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Rio Jachal 1943 Argentina Campana 1946 SGTM Irpinia 1955 Sicula Oceanica Scrapped in La Spezia 1983 IMO: 5163675
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Argentina, Campana, Irpinia, La Spezia, Newcastle, Rio Jachal, SGTM, Sicula Oceanica, Swan Hunter
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The World's Passenger Ships 