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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: troopship
No.614 Mauretania launched in 1938
35,738grt for Cunard-White Star Line by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead Scrapped in Inverkeithing 1965 Coloured by Daryl LeBlanc Mauretania as a troopship Mauretania in cruising green
No.273 Conte Rosso launched in 1917
15,000grt for Lloyd Sabaudo by Beardmore, Glasgow Converted to an aircraft carrier HMS Argus 1918 Royal Navy Sold to Thos. W. Ward Dec 1946 & arrived at Inverkeithing to be broken up
Posted in Navy Ship, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Beardmore, Conte Rosso, Glasgow, HMS Argus, Inverkeithing, Lloyd Sabaudo, Royal Navy
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No.276 Narkunda launched in 1918
16,118grt P & O Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed, bombed Bougie 1942 The first two photos were sold on board during my grandparents’ posting to Gibraltar in 1924. They also returned to the UK on her in 1929. … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrant Ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Bougie, Gibraltar, Harland & Wolff, Narkunda, P&O, torpedoed
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No.277 Johan de Witt launched in 1919
10,355grt for Stoomv Mij ‘Nederland’ by Nederlandsche SB Mij, Amsterdam Neptunia 1949 Greek Line Scrapped Hendrik Ido Ambacht 1957 (Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht is a village and municipality in the western Netherlands)
No.278 Wenatchee launched in 1919
14,174grt for US Shipping Board from New York SB Corp, Camden President Jefferson 1922 Admiral Oriental Henry T. Allen 1941 US Navy President Jefferson 1946 US Maritime Commission Scrapped Baltimore 1948 SS Wenatchee arrives in Seattle USS Henry T.Allen (APA-15) … Continue reading
No.279 Sea Girt launched in 1919
13,789grt for US Shipping Board 535ft Class from New York SB Corp, Camden Southern Cross 1921 Munson Line Wharton 1939 US Navy Scrapped Baltimore 1952 Image attribution: Percy Loomis Sperr SOUTHERN CROSS. Oct.31, 1932, thanks to Yoshiaki Nishimura SOUTHERN CROSS … Continue reading
No.414 Ranchi launched in 1925
16,650grt for P & O Line from Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle Her second funnel was removed in Bombay 23 Oct 1939 Scrapped in Newport 1953 Ranchi – photo from Kevin Blair on tynebuiltships In 1947 the Ministry of Transport returned Ranchi … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Hawthorn Leslie, Newcastle, Newport, P&O, Ranchi
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The World's Passenger Ships 