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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.1820 Blue Star Patmos launched in 2012
18,498GT for Blue Star Ferries from Daewoo Shipbuilding, Okpo IMO: 9565041 Image attribution: Marios Prekos & Tony Davis
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Blue Star Ferries, Blue Star Patmos, Daewoo Shipbuilding, IMO: 9565041, Okpo
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No.1221 Greifswald launched in 1988
21,980grt for VEB Deutfracht from VEB Mathias Thesen, Wismar IMO: 8311912 Antey 2024 Russian Flag Image attribution: UKRFERRY & 3 named images from Marine Traffic
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, Ro-pax
Tagged Greifswald, IMO: 8311912, VEB Deutfracht, VEB Mathias Thesen, Wismar
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No.1222 Sassnitz launched in 1988
20,276GT built for GDR State Railways by Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Aalborg IMO: 8705383 Then Stena Line Arrived Aliaga 19 Oct 2021 Image attribution: Just Ferries, Peter Ferrary & Tony Davis
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Aalborg Vaerft, GDR Tate Railways, IMO: 8705383, Sassnitz, Stena Line
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No.903 Leonardo da Vinci launched in 1958
33,340grt ‘Italia’ SAN by Ansaldo, Sestri-Ponente 1978 returned to La Spezia, Italy to be laid up. Fire started on board on 4 July 1980. The burnt-out hull was later righted and towed to the scrapyard at La Spezia in 1982. … Continue reading
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Ansaldo, Fire, Italia SAN, La Spezia, Leonardo da Vinci, Sestri Ponente
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No.742 Modjokerto launched in 1946
10,116grt for Rotterdam Lloyd from Caledon, Dundee Dona Rita 1963 Socrates Nav Co Atlas Promoter 1968 Korea Atlas Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972 Only 36 passengers
Posted in passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Atlas Promoter, Caledon, Dona Rita, Dundee, Modjokerto, Rotterdam Lloyd
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No.743 Argentina Star launched in 1946
10,716grt for Blue Star Line from Cammell Laird, Birkenhead Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972 Argentina Star in her last time in Santos. July 1972 Luiz Fernando Horstien
No.744 President Wilson launched in 1946
15,359grt for American President Line by Bethlehem Shipyard, Alameda, California Oriental Empress 1973 Oceanic Cruise Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1984 President Wilson February 1, 1971 Albert Groom ORIENTAL EMPRESS photo by Chris Howell
No.745 Athenic launched in 1946
15,187grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1969 Image attribution: William Hall Raine National Library NZ, George Wiseman & Marc Piché
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Athenic, Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Shaw Savill & Albion
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No.746 Kampala launched in 1946
10,304grt for British India Line from Stephen, Glasgow Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1971 Image attribution: Trevor Jones
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged British India, Kampala, Stephen Glasgow
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No.747 Media launched in 1946
15,465grt for Cunard-White Star Line from John Brown, Clydebank Flavia 1961 Cogedar Flavian 1982 Flavian Shipping Lavia 1986 Lavia Shipping Fire 1989, scrapped Kaohsiung Image from: John Gibbard & Panama Maru Naoyuki
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Clydebank, Cogedar, Cunard-White Star Line, Fire, Flavia, Flavian, John Brown, Lavia, Media
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