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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.
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No.820 Antilles launched in 1951
19,828grt for CGT French Line from Arsenal de Brest, Brest Fire, sank off Mustique 1971 Image attribution: Beken of Cowes & Ben Ayre Antilles 1966 photographer Karl-Heinz Wolff
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Antilles, Arsenal de Brest, Brest, CGT French Line, Fire, Mustique
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No.1771 Queen Elizabeth launched in 2010
90,901GT for Cunard Line from Fincantieri, Marghera IMO: 9477438 Image attribution: Ian Collard, Vitor Francisco, Tony Davis & Wayne A’Court
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Cunard Line, fincantieri, IMO: 9477438, Marghera, Queen Elizabeth
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No.1733 Seabourn Odyssey launched 2008
32,346GT for Seabourn Cruise Line by San Giorgio, Genoa & Mariotti, Genoa IMO: 9417086 Mitsui Ocean Fuji 2024 MOL Cruises which operates Mitsui Ocean Cruises Image attribution: David Sky, John Gibbard & Wayne A’Court
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Genoa, IMO: 9417086, Marriotti, San Giorgio, Seabourn Cruise Line, Seabourn Odyssey
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No.1734 Wan Rong Hai launched in 2008
11,585grt for Dalian Wantong Ronghai by HuangHai Shipbuilding, Rongcheng IMO: 8741569
Posted in China, ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Dalian Wantong Ronghai, Huanghai Shipbuilding, IMO: 8741569, Rongcheng, Wan Rong Hai
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No.672 General H W Butner launched in 1943
17,951grt for US Navy from Federal SB & DD Co, Kearny Scrapped Brownsville 1976 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22113.htm
Posted in Class P2-S2-R2 (11 ships), Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Brownsville, Federal SB & DD Co, General H W Butner, Kearny, US Navy
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No.363 Conte Verde launched in 1922
18,765 Lloyd Sabaudo from Beardmore, Glasgow After acquisition by Italian Line in 1932, she became a part of Lloyd Triestino Scuttled by crew in Shanghai 1943, raised, bombed Maizuru Japan 1944 and finally scrapped in 1949. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Conte_Verde Image from Yoshiaki … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Beardmore, Conte Verde, Glasgow, Japan, Lloyd Sabaudo, Lloyd Triestino, Maizuru, Shanghai
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No.364 Franconia launched in 1922
20,158grt for Cunard Line from John Brown, Clydebank Scrapped in Inverkeithing 1956 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & State Library of New South Wales Franconia 2 March 1934, Frederick Garner Wilkinson
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Clydebank, Cunard Line, Franconia, Inverkeithing, John Brown, Sydney
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No.289 Munchen launched in 1920
18,940grt for North German Lloyd from AG ’Weser’, Bremen Ohio 1923 Royal Mail Lines Albertic 1927 White Star Line Scrapped Osaka 1934 White Star Line’s ALBERTIC, seen here at Boston in 1929. Image from Rich Turnwald Collection
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged AG Weser, Albertic, Bremen, Munchen, Nord Deutsche Lloyd, North German Lloyd, Ohio, royal Mail Line, White Star Line
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No.1772 Forza launched in 2010
25,518GT for ANEK from Nuovi Cantieri Apuania, Marina di Carrera IMO: 9458523 Image attribution: Manuel Hernandez Lafuente & 3 named images from Marine Traffic
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, Ro-pax
Tagged ANEK, Forza, IMO: 9458523, Marina di Carrera, Nuovi Cantieri Apuania
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No.1842 Britannia launched in 2014
143,730GT for P&O Cruises by Fincantieri, Monfalcone Image attribution: Ian Collard, Tony Davis & Jamie Scimonello
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Britannia, fincantieri, IMO: 9614036, Monfalcone, P&O Cruises
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