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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.2032 SH Vega floated out 11 Feb 2022
10,700GT for Swan Hellenic from Helsinki Shipyard Oy IMO: 9895252 Image attribution: Andrea Rolando, Santeri Velin, Florin Tanase & Sondre M Pettersen on Marine Traffic
No.71 Merion launched in 1901
11,621grt for American Line by John Brown, Clydebank Tiger 1914 British Admiralty (A dummy ship for HMS Tiger) Torpedoed by UB8 off Mudros 1915 and as HMS Tiger
Posted in Emigrant Ship, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Admiralty, American Line, Clydebank, HMS Tiger, John Brown, Merion, Mudros, torpedoed, UB8
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No.476 Viceroy of India launched 1928
19,648grt for P&O by Stephen, Glasgow Torpedoed by U 407 off Oran 1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Viceroy_of_India Viceroy of India on the 11th of November, 1942
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Glasgow, P&O, Stephen, torpedoed, U407, Viceroy of India
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No.976 Central No1 launched 1970
10,223grt for Central Ferry Co. Ltd from Mitsubishi, Shimonoseki Tassili 1973 Cie Nationale Algerienne IMO:7039476 Scrapped Alang 2000 Image attribution: Ken Murayama, Per Jensen & Mike Taplin on faktaomfartyg.se From Sam on Twitter
Posted in ferry, Japanese, passenger ship
Tagged Central Ferry, Central No.1, Cie National Algerienne, Mitsubishi, Shimonoseki, Tassili
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No.1476 Alyssa launched in 1998
25,206GT for Levantina Trasporti from Cantieri Navale Visentini, Porto Viro Svealand 2001 Stena Line Lisco Optima 2006 DFDS Lisco Optima Seaways 2012 DFDS Seaways IMO: 9188427 Image attribution: ferienwohnung-marquandt, PixelOpa & Wlodek Sulkowski
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Ro-pax
Tagged Alyssa, Cantiere Navale Visentini, DFDS, DFDS Seaways, IMO: 9188427, Levantina Trasporti, Lisco Optima, Optima Seaways, Porto Viro, Stena Line, Svealand
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No.1976 Hamayu launched 10 Aug 2020
15,400GT for TQF (Tokyo Kyushu Ferry) Cruising Resort from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki IMO: 9894569 Image attribution: Mitsubishi, via Spyridon Rossos & Wota Aki on Marine Traffic
Posted in ferry, Japanese, passenger ship
Tagged Cruising Resort, Hamayu, IMO: 9894569, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Tokyo Kyushu Ferry
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No.1570 Constellation floated out in 2001
90,280GT for Celebrity Cruises by Chantiers de l´Atlantique, St Nazaire Celebrity Constellation 2007 Celebrity Cruises IMO: 9192399 Image copyright: Robert Smith & Tony Davis Image from Daniel Ferro
No.1070 Stena Shipper launched in 1977
18,799grt for Stena Container Line Ltd by Hyundai Heavy Industries, Ulsan Norsky 1978 Stena Line Merzario Ionia 1980 Merzario Constellation Enterprise 1981 Constellation Lines N & T 700 1987 Nordstrom & Thulin Graip 1987 Nordstrom & Thulin Chong Ming Dao … Continue reading
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, Ro-pax
Tagged Aliaga, Chong Ming Dao, Constellation Enterprise, Graip, Kilmore, Merzario Ionia, N&T 700, Norsky, Stena, Stena Shipper
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No.570 Ville d’Alger launched in 1935
10,172grt for CGT French Line by Penhoët, St Nazaire (although sunk from Aug ’44-Feb ’45) Poseidon 1966 Typaldos Scrapped in La Spezia 1969 From maitres-du-vent.blog
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged CGT, French Line, La Spezia, Penhoet, Poseidon, St Nazaire, Typaldos, Ville d'Alger
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