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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.150 Franconia launched in 1910
18,150grt for Cunard Line by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Torpedoed by UB 47 off Malta 1916 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Cunard Line, Franconia, Malta, Newcastle, Swan Hunter, torpedoed, UB47
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No.149 Maloja launched in 1910
12,431grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mined off Dover 1916 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Dover, Harland & Wolff, Maloja, Mined, P&O
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No.147 Rangatira launched in 1909
10,118grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Workman Clark, Belfast Ashore on Robben Island, Table Bay, Cape Town 1916 http://nzmaritime.co.nz/Rangatira1909.htm Image attribution: NZ National Maritime Museum
No.146 Espagne launched in 1909
11,155grt for CGT French Line by de Provence, Port de Bouc Scrapped in St Nazaire 1934
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged CGT French Line, de Provence, Espagne, Port de Bouc, St Nazaire
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No.858 Olympia launched in 1953
22,979grt for Greek Line by Stephen, Glasgow Caribe 1981 Sally Shipping Caribe I 1983 Commodore Cruise Line Regal Empress 1993 Regal Cruise Line Scrapped Alang 2009 Image attribution: Janet Cook, Tony Davis & Julio Montes
No.857 City of York launched in 1953
13,345grt for Ellerman Lines by Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Mediterranean Sky 1971 MA Karageorgis Siterranean Sky 1987 Argentina Mediterranean Sky 1991 MA Karageorgis Sank Elevsis 2003 Image attribution: Fotoflite, Neven Jerković & Henry Brayshaw
No.856 Wirakel launched in 1953
10,714grt for Phs van Ommeren NV by P. Smit, Rotterdam Kydon 1968 Cretan Maritime City of Taranto 1989 Lelakis Group She was a converted oil tanker and was scrapped in Aliağa in 1998 Image attribution: Χαριλαος Ντιγριντακης
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged City of Taranto, Cretan Maritime, Kydon, Lelakis, P Smit Jr, Phs van Ommeren, Rotterdam, Wirakel
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No.854 Pine Tree Mariner launched in 1952
14,812grt for US Maritime Commission from Bethlehem Steel Co, Quincy Mariposa 1956 Matson Line Jin Jiang 1983 China Ocean Shipping Queen of Jin Jiang 1992 COS Heng Li 1995 COS Nisarutn 1996 COS Scrapped Alang 1996 Images: Chris Howell, James … Continue reading
The World's Passenger Ships 