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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.34 Batavia launched in 1899
10,178 Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Polonia 1913 Unione Austriaca Batavia 1913 Hamburg-America Line Broken up in 1924 Image copyright: Cenaprints-Fotomaritime Image from Norway Heritage
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Batavia, Blohm & Voss, Hamburg-America, Polonia, Unione Austrica
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No.1988 Viking Octantis launched 22 Dec 2020
30,150GT for Viking Cruises from VARD shipyards (Tulcea Romania & Soviknes-Alesund Norway) IMO: 9863194 Image attribution: Jon Stone, Lorie Larner, Barry Anderson and Peter Routhier on Marine Traffic
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Norway, Soviknes Alesund, Tulcea Romania, Vard, Viking Cruises, Viking Octantis
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No.33 Hamburg launched in 1899
10,532grt for Hamburg-America Line by Vulcan, Stettin Red Cross 1914 US Red Cross Hamburg 1914 Hamburg-America Line Powhatan 1917 US Navy New Rochelle 1920 Baltic SS Corp Hudson 1921 United States Lines President Fillmore 1922 Dollar Line Scrapped USA 1928
No.1533 Superfast X launched in 2000
30285GT for Superfast Ferries by Howaldswerke Deutsche, Kiel Jean Nicoli 2007 SNCM SeaFrance Moliere 2008 SeaFrance Moliere 2012 SeaFrance Dieppe Seaways 2012 DFDS Stena Superfast X 2015 Stena Line A Nepita 2020 Corsica Linea Ile Rouge 2026 Marine Atlantic IMO: 9211511 … Continue reading
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged A Nepita, Corsica Line, DFDS, Dieppe Seaways, Howaldswerke, Jean Nicoli, Kiel, Moliere, SeaFrance, SNCM, Stena, Stena Superfast, Superfast Ferries, Superfast X
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No.1532 Superfast IX launched in 2000
30,285GT for Superfast Ferries by Howaldswerke Deutsche, Kiel Atlantic Vision 2008 Marine Atlantic St Patrick 2026 Hibernia Line IMO: 9211509 Image by A T Wiffen Image by Jack Reynolds Image by Jacques Maillet
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Atlantic Vision, Howaldswerke, Kiel, Superfast Ferries, Superfast IX
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No.532 President Hoover launched in 1930
21,936grt for Dollar Line by Newport News at Newport News Aground in 1937, she met her final fate on the rocks of Hoishoto (Kasho-to) Island off Formosa Broken up on the spot 1938-41 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_President_Hoover
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Dollar Line, Formosa, Hoishoto Island, Newport News, President Hoover, Taiwan
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No.1531 Superfast VII launched in 2000
30,285GT for Superfast Ferries by Howaldswerke Deutsche, Kiel Stena Superfast VII 2011 Stena Line IMO: 9198941 Image copyright: Bobjak
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Howaldswerke, Kiel, Stena, Stena Superfast, Superfast Ferries, Superfast VII
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No.1031 Monte Granada launched in 1974
10,829grt for Naviera Aznar by Union Naval de Levante, Valencia Garnata 1977 Libyan Ministry of Transport Scrapped Aliaga, Turkey 2007 IMO 9271585 Image copyright: Bernd Crause
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Aliaga, Garnata, Libya, Monte Granada, Naviera Aznar, Union Naval, Valencia
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No.1032 Belorussiya launched in 1974
16,631 USSR by Wärtsilä, Turku Kazakhstan II 1993 Delphin Seereisen Delphin 1996 Delphin Seereisen Arrived Aliaga, Turkey 22 Apr 2022 IMO: 7347536 Image by Gordy on Ship Spotting Image by Carlo Martinelli 2003 image by Bernd Baessmann DELPHIN photo … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Aliaga, Belorussiya, Delphin, Kazakhstan, Seereisen, Turku, USSR, Wartsila
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No.531 Victoria launched in 1930
13,062grt for Lloyd Triestino by CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Bombed Gulf of Sidra off Libya in 1942 Image copyright: Steve Walker Color a Joe Wilhelm painting Image from Fausto Iacono Victoria in Aden
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Adriatica, Lloyd Triestino, Mediterranean, Monfalcone, Victoria
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