Category Archives: passenger ship

No.351 Diogenes launched in 1922

Posted on May 23, 2023 by donships

12,341grt for Aberdeen Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Mataroa 1926 Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped in Faslane 1957 Image attribution: Allan Green Collection & The Alexander Turnbull Library Mataroa departing Wellington 1957

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No.352 Hakozaki Maru launched in 1922

Posted on May 23, 2023 by donships

10,413grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed by US submarine off Balao East China Sea 1945

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No.353 Kerguelen launched in 1922

Posted on May 23, 2023 by donships

10,017grt for Chargeurs Réunis from Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire Chantilly 1923 Messageries Maritimes Scrapped in Marseille 1952 Image attribution: http://messageries-maritimes.org 1946

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No.354 Aramis launched in 1922

Posted on May 23, 2023 by donships

14,825grt for Messageries Maritimes from Chantiers et Ataliers de la Gironde Bordeaux Numerous problems with its turbines which were replaced by classic triple expansion engines. Chenonceaux 1925 Messageries Maritimes First voyage March 11, 1927 Scuttled by the Germans in Marseille … Continue reading →

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No.355 Cap Norte launched in 1922

Posted on May 23, 2023 by donships

13,615grt for Hamburg-South America Line from Vulcan, Hamburg Sierra Salvada 1932 North German Lloyd Cap Norte 1934 Hamburg-South America Line Empire Trooper 1940 Ministry of Transport Scrapped Inverkeithing 1955 Image – Hans Flugge.  NDL’s Sierra Salvada was taken in Funchal, … Continue reading →

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No.356 City of Nagpur launched in 1922

Posted on May 23, 2023 by donships

10,138grt for Ellerman Lines from Workman Clark, Belfast Torpedoed by U75 off Fastnet in the Atlantic 1941 City of Nagpur, Vandyck or Voltaire) and Canadian Pacific’s unmistakable Empress of Britain,

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No.357 Flandria launched in 1922

Posted on May 23, 2023 by donships

10,171grt for Royal Holland Lloyd by Barclay Curle, Glasgow Bretagne 1936 CGT French Line Torpedoed by U 45 in the English Channel

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No.358 Volendam launched in 1922

Posted on May 23, 2023 by donships

15,434grt for Holland-America Line from Harland & Wolff, Govan Scrapped Hendrik Ido Ambacht 1952 3 images from Clyde ships website

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No.682 General M C Meigs launched in 1944

Posted on May 22, 2023 by donships

17,707grt for US Navy from Federal SB & DD Co, Kearny In 1972 while under tow to the Suisun Bay layup facility, she broke her tow in a storm, and ran aground off the coast of Washington State, where she … Continue reading →

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No.683 General M L Hersey launched in 1944

Posted on May 22, 2023 by donships

10,654grt for US Navy from Kaiser, Richmond California Pittsburgh 1968 Sea Land Service St Louis 1968 Sea Land Service Scrapped 1979 http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/22/22148.htm U.S. Military Sea Transportation Service transport USNS General M. L. Hersey underway 1952

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