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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.35 Belgravia launched 1899
10,155grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Riga 1905 Black and Asow Sea Transbalt 1919 Sovtorgflot Torpedoed by US submarine Spadefish 1945, having been mistaken for a Japanese ship
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Belgravia, Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Hamburg-America, Riga, Sovtorflot, Transbalt, USS Spadefish
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No.34 Batavia launched in 1899
10,178 Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Polonia 1913 Unione Austriaca Batavia 1913 Hamburg-America Line Broken up in 1924 Image copyright: Cenaprints-Fotomaritime Image from Norway Heritage
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Batavia, Blohm & Voss, Hamburg-America, Polonia, Unione Austrica
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No.33 Hamburg launched in 1899
10,532grt for Hamburg-America Line by Vulcan, Stettin Red Cross 1914 US Red Cross Hamburg 1914 Hamburg-America Line Powhatan 1917 US Navy New Rochelle 1920 Baltic SS Corp Hudson 1921 United States Lines President Fillmore 1922 Dollar Line Scrapped USA 1928
No.532 President Hoover launched in 1930
21,936grt for Dollar Line by Newport News at Newport News Aground in 1937, she met her final fate on the rocks of Hoishoto (Kasho-to) Island off Formosa Broken up on the spot 1938-41 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_President_Hoover
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Tagged Dollar Line, Formosa, Hoishoto Island, Newport News, President Hoover, Taiwan
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No.32 Persic launched in 1899
11,973grt for White Star Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Netherlands 1937
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, troopship
Tagged Harland & Wolff, Netherlands, Persic, Scrapped, white star
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No.531 Victoria launched in 1930
13,062grt for Lloyd Triestino by CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Bombed Gulf of Sidra off Libya in 1942 Image copyright: Steve Walker Color a Joe Wilhelm painting Image from Fausto Iacono Victoria in Aden
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Adriatica, Lloyd Triestino, Mediterranean, Monfalcone, Victoria
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No.31 Saxon launched in 1899
12,970grt for the Union Steam Ship Co by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Blyth 1935 A Union-Castle liner for nearly all her career after the merger
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Tagged Blyth, Saxon, South Africa, Union Castle, Union Line
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No.30 Grosser Kurfürst launched in 1899
13,182grt for North German Lloyd by Schichau, Danzig Aeolus 1917 US Navy City of Los Angeles 1922 Los Angeles SS Co Scrapped Japan 1937
No.529 Worcestershire launched in 1930
11,45grt for Bibby Line by Fairfield, Glasgow Kannon Maru 1961 C Itoh Scrapped in Osaka 1961 Image from Paul Stathdee
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Tagged Bibby Line, Fairfield Glasgow, Kannon Maru, Worcestershire
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The World's Passenger Ships 