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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.662 Biloxi launched in 1942
12,090grt for US Government from Ingalls, Pascagoula Henry Gibbins 1943 US Army Empire State IV 1960 NY State Maritime College Bay State 1974 Massachusetts Maritime Scrapped in Kearny 1982 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22183.htm
Posted in Class C3-S-A1, Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship, US Army
Tagged Bay State, Biloxi, Empire State, Henry Gibbins, Ingalls, Kearny, Massachusetts, NY State Maritime, Pascagoula, US Army
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No.302 Albania launched in 1920
12,768grt for Cunard Line from Scott´s, Greenock California 1930 Nav Libera Triestina Torpedo bombed off Syracuse 1941 Image attribution: David Osmond
No.303 Ballarat launched in 1920
13,065grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Greenock Scrapped in Briton Ferry 1935
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, Uncategorized
Tagged Ballarat, Belfast, Briton Ferry, Harland & Wolff, P&O Line
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No.304 Meduana launched in 1920
10,077grt for Cie Sudatlantique from Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Kerguelen 1928 Chargeurs Réunis Winrich von Kniprode 1940 German Navy Kerguelen 1945 Chargeurs Réunis Scrapped in Antwerp 1955
No.305 Alfonso XIII launched in 1920
10,551grt for Cia Trasatlantica from Soc Espanola de Construction Naval, Bilbao Habana 1931 Cia Trasatlantica Galicia 1964 Pescanova SA, Vigo Scrapped in Spain 1978 Completed after a fire in 1923, burned out in 1939, repaired & refitted as a cargo … Continue reading
No.309 Pittsburgh launched in 1920
16,332grt for White Star Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Pennland 1926 Red Star Line Bombed Athens 1941 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Pennland
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Athens, Belfast, Bombed, Harland & Wolff, Pennland, Pittsburgh, red Star Line, White Star Line
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No.1341 Hestia launched in 1993
13,539GT for Higashi Nihon by Mitsubishi, Shimonoseki IMO: 9061590 Sun Flower Furano 2007 Shosen Mitsui Ferry Golden Pearl 3 2017 Mongolian Flag Mutiara Berkah II 2018 Atosim Lampung Pelayaran Scrapped 2018
No.1342 Nordlys launched in 1993
11,204GT for Trom Fylkes by Volkswerft, Stralsund IMO: 9048914 A Hurtigruten ship Image attribution: Darren Holdaway
Posted in Cruise ship, ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Hurtigruten, IMO: 9048914, Nordlys, Stralsund, Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskap, Volkswerft
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No.1343 Queen Coral launched in 1993
11,478GT for Marix Line from Hayashikane Dockyard, Nagasaki IMO: 9066710 Eastern Dream 2009 DBS Cruiseferry Image attribution: Yuichi Morita & Sergei Skriabin
Posted in ferry, Japanese, passenger ship
Tagged DBS Cruise Ferry, Eastern Dream, Hayashikane, IMO: 9066710, Marix Line, Nagasaki, Queen Carol
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