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No.1748 Baltic Queen launched in 2008

48,915GT for Tallink from STX Europe, Rauma IMO: 9443255

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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

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No.649 Steel Artisan launched in 1941

12,464grt for US Navy by Western Pipe & Steel Co, San Francisco Barnes 1941 US Navy Attacker 1942 Royal Navy Castel Forte 1952 Sitmar Fairsky 1958 Fairline Shipping Corp (Sitmar) Destroyed by fire 1980, scrapped Hong Kong USS Barnes/HMS Attacker … Continue reading

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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

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No.341 Haruna Maru launched in 1921

10,421grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Stranded off Surga Bay 1942

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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

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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

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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

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No.621 Argentina Maru launched in 1938

12,755grt for Osaka Shosen KK by Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Kaiyo 1943 Japanese Navy Bombed Beppu Bay 1945

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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

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