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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.70 Walmer Castle launched in 1901
12,546grt for Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Blyth 1932 Walmer is 7 miles north of Dover, Kent Image copyright: Bandcstaffregister
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Blyth, Harland & Wolff, Union-Castle Line, Walmer Castle
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No.477 Leopoldville launched in 1928
11,172grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Cockerill, Hoboken, Belgium Modernised 1936/37 Torpedoed by U 486, off Cherbourg 1944 with tragic loss of life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_L%C3%A9opoldville_(1928)
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Tagged Cherbourg, cockerill, Compagnie Maritime Belge, Hoboken, Leopoldville, torpedoed, U486
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No.977 Mikhail Lermontov launched 1970
19,872grt USSR (Baltic Shipping Company) from Mathias-Thesen Yard, Wismar Aground Port Gore, New Zealand & sank 1986 IMO:7042318 The 5th of 5 Poet class liners/cruise ships Image attribution: Eric Sanders, Leo Johannes, Masato Nishiguchi, & Mike Cornwall
No.1977 MSC Seashore floated out 20 Aug 2020
169,380GT for MSC Cruises from Fincantieri, Monfalcone IMO: 9843792 Image attribution: Artem Artem, Emmanuel Almonte, Franco Sasson & Stanley Barker from Marine Traffic
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged fincantieri, IMO: 9843792, Monfalcone, MSC Cruises, MSC Seashore
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No.1569 Europa Palace launched in 2001
36,825GT for Minoan Line from Fincantieri, Sestri Ponente Amsicora 2012 Tirrenia Mykonos Palace 2018 Grimaldi Cia di Navigazione Festos Palace 2020 Minoan Line IMO: 9220342 Image copyright: Marios Prekas Image from Tony Davis
No.1069 Habib launched in 1977
11,179grt for Cotunav by Schiffbau Werft, Rendsburg Scrapped Alang 2013 Photo by David Thorn image from Malcolm Cranfield Image from Carlo Martinelli
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Alang, Cotuna, Habib, Rendsburg, Schiffbau Werft, tunisia Ferries
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No.569 Potsdam launched in 1935
17,528grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Empire Jewel 1945 Ministry of Transport Empire Fowey 1946 Ministry of Transport Safina-E-Hujjaj 1960 Pan-Islamic SS Co (and a regular caller in Aden) Scrapped Gadani Beach 1976 Potsdam at Suez Empire … Continue reading
No.69 Noordam launched in 1901
12,531grt for Holland-America Line Harland & Wolff, Belfast Kungsholm 1922 Chartered to Swedish-America Line Noordam 1924 Holland-America Line Scrapped Netherlands 1928 Image copyright Kungsholm: http://Captainalbert.com Chartered for just under two years to the Swedish America Line
No.478 Duchess of York launched 1928
20,021grt for Canadian Pacific from John Brown, Clydebank Bombed Oporto 1943
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Bombed, Canadian Pacific, Clydebank, Duchess of York, John Brown, Oporto
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No.978 Princess of Nova launched in 1971
10,109grt for Canadian Pacific from St John Shipbuilding & Dry Docking Co. St John Princess of Acadia 1971 CN Marine Inc IMO: 7039567 Scrapped Port Colborne 2017 Image attribution: Mac Mackay
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Tagged Canadian Pacific, CN Marine, IMO: 7039567, Port Colborne, Princess of Acadia, Princess of Nova, St John SB
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