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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.415 Chitral launched in 1925
15,248grt for P & O Line from Stephen, Glasgow Scrapped in Dalmuir 1953 Images from the Allen Green Collection
Posted in Emigrant Ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Chitral, Dalmuir, P&O, Stephen Glasgow
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No.416 Alaunia launched 7 Feb 1925
14,030grt for Cunard Line from John Brown, Clydebank HMS Alaunia 1939 Scrapped in Blyth 1957 14 years a liner 18 years RN-AMC, transport and repair ship HMS Alaunia – IWM
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Alaunia, Blyth, Clydebank, Cunard Line, John Brown
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No.611 Durban Castle launched in 1938
17,388grt for Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Hamburg 1962 Image attribution: Andreas Hoppe & Ian Joseph Image from Yoshiaki Nishimura Image from Chris Howell
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Durban Castle, Hamburg, Harland & Wolff, Union Castle
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No.613 Dominion Monarch launched in 1938
27,155grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Swan, Hunter & Wigham, Richardson, Newcastle Dominion Monarch Maru 1962 Breakers Scrapped in Osaka 1962 Image attribution: Skyfoto’s Fotoflite She is the ship in the opening sequence of ‘Call the Midwife Dominion Monarch … Continue reading
No.616 Sobieski launched in 1938
11,030grt for Gdynia-America Line by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle Gruzia 1950 USSR Scrapped in La Spezia 1975 Gruzia, photo from Peter Ferrary
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Gdynia-America Line, Gruzia, La Spezia, Newcastle, Sobieski, Swan Hunter, USSR
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No.618 Ancon launched in 1938
10,021grt for Panama Railroad by Bethlehem Steel Co, Quincy State of Maine 1963 Maine Maritime Academy Scrapped in Wilmington 1973 ANCON during WW2 Post-WWII image of SS Ancon returning to the Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Quincy, MA., 13 June 1947, after being … Continue reading
No.619 Queen Elizabeth, launched in 1938
at 83,673 gross registered tons for Cunard-White Star Line by John Brown, Clydebank Entered regular transatlantic service with Cunard Line service in 1946 Elizabeth 1969 Queen Ltd Seawise University 1970 Seawise Foundations (CY Tung) Fire at Hong Kong 1972, later … Continue reading
No.422 Rawalpindi launched in 1925
16,619grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Rawalpindi Sunk North Atlantic 1939 in a surface action against the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The Captain Edward Kennedy RN, killed in action with 237 others, was the … Continue reading
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Kennedy, P&O, Rawalpindi
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No.424 Conte Biancamano launched in 1925
24,416grt for Lloyd Sabaudo from Beardmore, Glasgow USS Hermitage 1942 US Navy Conte Biancamano 1947 Italia SAN Scrapped in La Spezia 1969 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Conte_Biancamano Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & Don Gammon USS Hermitage Image attribution: Don Gammon
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Beardmore, Conte Biancamano, Glasgow, Italia SAN, La Spezia, Lloyd Sabaudo, US Navy, USS Hermitage
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No.423 Caledonia launched in 1925
17,046grt for Anchor Line from Stephen, Glasgow HMS Scotstoun 1939 Royal Navy Torpedoed by U25 off Inishtrahull 1940 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color HMS Scotstoun
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Anchor Line, Caledonia, HMS Scotstoun, Royal Navy, Stephen Glasgow, torpedoed, U25
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