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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.1748 Baltic Queen launched in 2008
48,915GT for Tallink from STX Europe, Rauma IMO: 9443255
Posted in ferry, passenger ship
Tagged Blatic Queen, IMO: 9443255, Rauma, STX Europe, Tallink
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No.1749 MSC Magnifica launched in 2009
95,128GT for MSC Crociere from STX France, St Nazaire IMO: 9387085 Image attribution: Luiz Fernando Hornstein & Jens Wagner Image from Peter Ferrary
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged IMO: 9387085, MSC Crociere, MSC Magnifica, St Nazaire, STX France
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No.885 Empress of England launched in 1956
25,585grt for Canadian Pacific from Vickers-Armstrongs, Newcastle Ocean Monarch 1970 Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1975 Image attribution: Emdee on Shipspotting, Len Baker, Mike Cornwall & Peter J Fitzpatrick
No.341 Haruna Maru launched in 1921
10,421grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Stranded off Surga Bay 1942
Posted in Navy Ship, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Haruna Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen KK, Surga Bay
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No.339 Cristóbal Colón launched in 1921
10,833grt for Cia Trasatlantica by Soc Espanola de Construction Naval, Ferrol Stranded Bermuda 1936
No.340 Andania launched in 1921
13,950grt for Cunard Line from Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle Torpedoed by UA 70 off Iceland 1944 Image attribution: Old Ship Picture Galleries
Posted in Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Andania, Cunard Line, Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle, torpedoed, UA70
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No.622 Huascaran launched in 1938
10,022grt for Hamburg-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Beaverbrae 1948 Canadian Pacific Aurelia 1954 Cogedar Line Romanza 1970 Chandris Line Romantica 1991 New Ambassador Fire Cyprus 1998, Scrapped Alexandria Beaverbrae 1948 Canadian Pacific Aurelia by Ben Ayre Romanza 1970 … Continue reading
No.621 Argentina Maru launched in 1938
12,755grt for Osaka Shosen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Kaiyo 1943 Japanese Navy Bombed Beppu Bay 1945
Posted in fire on ship, Japanese, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Argentina Maru, Beppu Bay, Bombed, Japanese Navy, Kaiyo, Mitsubishi, Nagasak, Osaka Shosen KK
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No.623 Panama launched in 1938
10,603grt for Panama Railroad by Bethlehem Steel Co, Quincy James Parker 1941 US Army Panama 1946 Panama Railroad President Hoover 1957 American President Lines Regina 1964 Chandris Line Regina Prima 1973 Chandris Scrapped Aliaga 1985 Image attribution: Jack P Lewis … Continue reading
