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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.831 Europa launched in 1951
11,430grt for Lloyd Triestino from Ansaldo, La Spezia Blue Sea 1976 Freighter Fire, sank Jeddah 1976 Image attribution: Les Pivnic, Trevor Jones & my photo My photo, Aden
Posted in Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Ansaldo, Blue Sea, Europa, Fire, Jeddah, La Spezia, Lloyd Triestino
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No.306 Wolverine State launched in 1920
10,533 US Shipping Board from New York SB Corp, Camden President Harrison 1922 Dollar Line Kachidoki Maru 1941 Japanese Transport Torpedoed by US Submarines in 1944. Tragic wartime episodes for both the US & Japanese operators of the vessel. Image … Continue reading
No.319 Windsor Castle launched in 1921
18,967grt for Union-Castle Line by John Brown, Clydebank Torpedo bombed off Algiers 1943 Modified in the 1930s, new bow, funnels replaced with 2 larger ones and new lifeboat davits.Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Algiers, Clydebank, John Brown, torpedoed, Union Castle, Windsor Castle
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No.371 Westphalia launched in 1923
11,343grt for Hamburg-America Line from Howaldt Kiel, Kiel General Artigas 1930 Hamburg-South America Line Bombed Hamburg 1943 Image attribution: Edson Lucas on Ship Spotting
No.372 Philoctetes launched in 1922
11,446grt for Blue Funnel Line by Scott´s, Greenock Scrapped in Newport 1948
Posted in passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Blue Funnel Line, Newport, Philoctetes, Scott's Greenock
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No.373 Sarpedon launched as 1923
11,321grt for Blue Funnel Line from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead Scrapped in Newport 1953 Image attribution: Trove Australia National Library via Gordy Ross
No.374 Patroclus launched in 1923
11,314grt for Blue Funnel Line from Scott´s, Greenock Torpedoed by U 99 off Ireland on 1940
Posted in Navy Ship, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Blue Funnel Line, Patroclus, Scott's Greenock, torpedoed, U99
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No.375 Mooltan launched in 1923
20,847grt for P & O Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Faslane 1954 Mooltan in Aden Mooltan in the Suez Canal
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Faslane, Harland & Wolff, Mooltan, P&O
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The World's Passenger Ships 