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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 ship
No.927 Michelangelo launched 16 Sep 1962
Completed April 1965 45,911grt for ‘Italia’ SAN from Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente 1976 sold to Iran Scrapped Gadani Beach, Pakistan 1991 IMO 5234113 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color, Postcard Per E. Merok & John Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Michelangelo Michelangelo in Geiranger, Norway in 1972. … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Ansaldo, Gadani Beach, IMO 5234113, Italia SAN, Michelangelo, Sestri Ponente
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No.925 Santa Mariana launched in 1962
14,442grt for Grace Line from Bethlehem Ship Building Corporation, Sparrow’s Point Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1988 IMO 5312642 Image attribution: Paul Wille on Ship Spotting & Jack Sparrow
No.926 Sakura Maru launched in 1962
12,628grt for Nihon Sangyo Junko from Mitsubishi, Kobe Sakura 1971 Oshima Unya Ziluolan 1982 Republic of China Scrapped 1994 IMO 5307350 Image attribution: Hiromaru
Posted in Japanese, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged China, IMO 5307350, Kobe, Mitsubishi, Nihon Sangyo, Sakura, Sakura Maru, Ziluolan
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No.928 Santa Maria launched 1962
14,442grt for Grace Line from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrow’s Point IMO 5312460 Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1988 Image attribution: Chris Howell, Fred Miller, David Oliver Thorne and Peter Wille
No.924 Ancerville launched in 1962
14,225grt for Cie de Nav Paquet by Penhoët, St Nazaire Ming Hua 1973 Republic of China Sea World 1983 Republic of China Hai Shang Shi Jie 1991 Republic of China IMO 5015957 Landlocked Hotel ship in Shenzhen 1991 Images: Mike … Continue reading
Posted in China, Cruise ship, ferry, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Static ship
Tagged Ancerville, China, Cie de Nav Paquet, Hai Shang Shi Je, Ming Hua, Penhoët, sea World, St Nazaire
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No.923 Santa Magdalena launched in 1962
14,443grt for Grace Line from Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrow’s Point IMO 5312408 Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1988 Photo with the Santa Mariana
No.939 Taras Shevchenko launched 16 Jan 1965
Delivered Apr ’66 19,549grt for USSR (Black Sea Shipping Company) by Mathias-Thesen Yard, Wismar IMO 6508195 Tara 2005 Breakers Scrapped Chittagong 2005 The third ship of the Poet Class Images: Tony Davis, Gordon Dalzell & Masato Nishiguchi
No.940 Kungsholm launched in 1965
26,678grt for Swedish America Line from John Brown, Clydebank IMO: 6512354 Sea Princess 1979 P&O Line Victoria 1995 P&O Line Mona Lisa 2002 Holiday Kreuzfahrten Oceanic II 2007 Louis Cruise Line The Scholar Ship 2007 The Scholar Ship Veronica 2010 … Continue reading
No.1938 Hanseatic Inspiration floated out 9 Feb 2019
15,651GT for Hapag-Lloyd from Vard Tulcea/Langsten IMO: 9817145 Image attribution: Hans-Peter Schroeder, Helga Massmann & Diego Zamora
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Hanseatic Inspiration, Hapag-Lloyd, IMO: 9817145, Langsten, Vard Tulcea
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