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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.1543 New Rainbow Love launched in 2001
11,401GT for Kyuetsu Ferry Mitsubishi, Shimonoseki Sun Flower Daisetsu 2007 Shosen Mitsui Ferry IMO: 9236705 Image copyright: Yosshii on Marine Traffic Hiroyuki Yoshimoto Shigeru Nishiyama
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Kyuetsu Ferry, Mitsubishi, New Rainbow Love, Shimonoseki, Shosen Mitsui, Sun Flower Daisetsu
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No.1043 Viking Valiant launched 1974
14,760grt for Thoresen Car Ferries Ltd by Aalborg Vaerft, Aalborg Pride of Le Havre 1989 P&O Pride of Cherbourg 1994 P&O Pride of Al Salam 1 2002 El Salam Al Salam 1 2002 Nador 2004 Comanav Mogador 2005 Comanav BU … Continue reading
No.497 Tatsuta Maru launched in 1929
16,975grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Tatuta Maru 1938 Nippon Yusen KK Torpedoed by US submarine Tarpon off Japan 1943 Image attribution: Yoshiaki Nishimura Tatsuta Maru, marked with symbols of safe passage while working as a repatriation ship … Continue reading
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen, Tarpon, Tatsuta Maru, Tatuta Maru, torpedoed
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No.43 Saxonia launched in 1899
14,281grt for Cunard Line from John Brown, Clydebank Scrapped Netherlands 1925 Image copyright: Steve Walker Color
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Clydebank, cunard, John Brown, Saxonia
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No.1499 Amsterdam launched in 2000
60,874GT for Holland-America Line from Fincantieri, Marghera Bolette 2020 Fred Olsen Line IMO: 9188037 Image attribution: Nicky Capeta, Stewart Ruskin, JD Schwartz & Dexter Sularte
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Amsterdam, Bolette, fincantieri, Fred Olsen, Holland America, Holland America Cruises, Marghera
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No.1542 Doro Londa launched in 2001
14,800GT for Indonesian Government (PELNI) by Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg Images from Gwenole de Kermenguy & Andreas Merentek
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Doro Londa, Indonesia, Jos Meyer, Papenburg, PELNI
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No.1042 Cunard Countess launched in 1974
17,586grt for Cunard from Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen Awani Dream 2 1996 Awani Olympic Countess 1998 Royal Olympic Olympia Countess 2002 Royal Olympic Cruises Ocean Countess 2004 Royal Olympic Cruises Lili Marleen 2005 Kreuzfahren Ruby 2007 Monarch Classic Cruises Ocean … Continue reading
No.42 Ivernia launched in 1899
13,799grt for Cunard Line by C.S. Swan & Hunter, Newcastle Torpedoed by UB 47 in 1917 off Cape Matapan Image copyright: Daryl LeBlanc color
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Cape Matapan, cunard, Ivernia, Swan Hunter, torpedoed, UB47
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No.1979 Wonder of the Seas floated out 5 Sep 2020
236,857GT for Royal Caribbean International from Chantiers de l’Atlantique, St Nazaire IMO: 9838345 Was the largest passenger ship in the world, until the Icon of the Seas in 2024 Image attribution: Pascal Bredel, 2 from Paul Gooch & Tony Davis
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Chantiers, Royal Caribbean, St Nazaire, Wonder of the Seas
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