Category Archives: passenger ship

No.2028 P&O Pioneer launched 2 Jan 2022

47,394GT for P&O Ferries by Guangzhou Shipyard International In Service on the Dover – Calais route IMO: 9895161 Image attribution: GSI, Nawaf Abdulla, Ruelle Fabian from Marine Traffic

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No.56 Runic launched in 1900

12,482grt for White Star Line Harland & Wolff, Belfast New Sevilla 1930 Sevilla Whaling (converted into a whaling ship- registered in London) Torpedoed by U 138 off Galway 1940 Image copyright: Allan Green Collection

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No.492 Rangitata launched 1929

16,737grt for New Zealand Shipping Company from John Brown, Clydebank Rang 1962 Breakers Scrapped in Split 1962 Image attribution: Barry Parsons & Dedge, 4th image at Curacao

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No.992 Ferry Hamanasu launched 1972

13,407grt for Shin Nipponkai Ferry KK from Koyo Dockyard Co, Mihara Lissos 1987 Anek Lines IMO: 7220269 Scrapped Alang 2011 Image from Henry Casciaro Lissos at Alang

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No.1492 Millennium floated out 1999

90,228GT for Celebrity Cruises from Chantiers de l´Atlantique, St Nazaire Celebrity Millennium 2009 Celebrity Cruises IMO: 9189419 Image attribution: Joost Keesing, Stephen Lane, Bridge Valley & Domagoj Mulanovi

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No.1555 Olympia Palace launched in 2001

36,825GT for Minoan Line by Fincantieri, Sestri Ponente Bonaria 2012 Tirrenia Cruise Bonaria 2018 Tirrenia Knossos Palace 2021 Minoan Line IMO: 9220330 Image copyright: Josemaria Dominguez

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No.1055 Green Arch launched in 1975

12,891grt for Hiroshima Green Ferry by Kanda SB Co, Kure Okudogo 8 1982 Kurushima Dock Kydon 1991 ANEK Talos 1995 ANEK Ierapetra L 1999 LANE Lines Aqua Blue 2017 IMO: 7429669 Image copyright for the Ierapetra L: Stamatis Gianniotis Nikos Chatzipetros … Continue reading

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No.55 Deutschland launched in 1900

16,502grt for Hamburg-America Line by Vulcan, Stettin Victoria Luise 1911 Hamburg-America Line Hansa 1921 Hamburg-America Line Scrapped Hamburg 1925 Image copyright: Steve Walker Color

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No.493 Highland Princess launched in 1929

14,128grt Nelson Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Incorporated into Royal Mail Line in 1932 Marianna 1959 John S Latsis Slapy 1960 Czechoslovak Ocean Guanghua 1960 Chinese Republic IMO: 5136983 Scrapped 1981 Some 1959 images from John Gibbard

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No.993 launched as the Sun Rise Jan 1972

11,314grt for Nippon Kosoku Ferry by Kawasaki, Kobe Delivered as Sun Flower 2 in May 1972 for Nippon Kosoku Ferry Ltd Dynamo 1 1999 Orientalis 2000 Cambodia IMO:7206469 Scrapped Chittagong 2003 Images from: idyllicocean Image:Koji Ueda

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