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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.1992 Silver Dawn floated out 14 Jan 2021
40,844GT for Silversea Cruises from Fincantieri, Ancona IMO: 9857937 Image attribution: Silversea Cruises, Claudio Ritossa & Tony Davis
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged ancona, fincantieri, Silver Dawn, Silversea Cruises
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No.1526 Moby Wonder launched in 2000
36,093GT for Moby Lines from Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo Image from Tony Davis
No.530 Monte Rosa launched in 1930
13,882grt for Hamburg-South America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Empire Windrush 1946 Ministry of Transport Fire sank Mediterranean 1954 Empire Windrush fire – Imperial War Museum
No.26 Bulgaria launched in 1898
10,237grt for Hamburg-America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Canada 1913 Unione Austriaca Bulgaria 1913 Hamburg-America Line Hercules 1917 US Army Philippines 1919 US Shipping Board Scrapped New York 1924 the Bulgaria
No.1993 Viking Glory floated out 26 Jan 2021
65211GT for Viking Line from Xiamen Shipbuilding IMO: 9827877 Image attribution: Viking Line, Tony Davis & Markus Mattila
Posted in ferry, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Baltic, Viking Glory, Viking Line, Xiamen
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No.1525 Mega Express Two launched in 2000
26,400GT for Corsica Ferries by Cantiere Navale Fratelli, Livorno Image by Kalie Deshayes Pierre Henri Weber Egil Dammen
Posted in ferry, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Cantieri, Corsica Ferries, Livorno, Mega Express
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No.1025 Dana Regina launched in 1973
12,192grt for Det Forenede D/S by Aalborg Vaerft, Aalborg Nord Estonia 1990 Est Line Thor Heyerdahl 1993 Larvik Line Vana Tallinn 1994 Tallink Adriatica Queen 2011 Allferries Scrapped Aliaga, Turkey 2014
Posted in ferry, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Aalborg Vaerft, Adriatica Queen, Dana Regina, DFDS, Est, Larvik, Nord Estonia, Thor Heyerdahl, Tllink, Vana Tallinn
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No.523 Empress of Britain launched in 1930
42,348grt for Canadian Pacific by John Brown, Clydebank Bombed off Ireland 1940. The largest British passenger ship lost in WW2 Image copyright: John Brown & Steve Walker color
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Bombed, Canadian Pacific, Empress of Britain, John Brown, torpedoed
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No.2015 Norwegian Prima floated out 13 Aug 2021
142500GT for Norwegian Cruise Line by Fincantieri, Marghera IMO: 9823986 Image attribution: j.lucas.shipslife & Gary Davies
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged fincantieri, Marghera, NCL, Norwegian Prima, Norwgian Cruise Line
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The World's Passenger Ships 