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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.89 Macedonia launched in 1903
10,512grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Japan 1931
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Japan, Macedonia, P&O
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No.588 Windhuk launched in 1936
16,662grt for Woermann Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Lejeune 1943 US Navy Scrapped in Portland 1966 Sister of the Pretoria, later Empire Orwell (No.586) Windhuk, two paintings by Klaus Roskam USS Lejeune
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Lejeune, Portland, US Navy, Windhuk, Woermann Line
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No.88 Marmora launched in 1903
10,509grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by UB 64 off Ireland 1918 Image attribution: Allan Green Collection Imperial War Museum photo
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Harland & Wolff, Harland &Wolff, Marmora, P&O, torpedoed, UB64
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No.87 Mongolia launched in 1903
13,639grt for Pacific Mail SS Co by New York SB, Camden President Fillmore 1929 Dollar Line Panamanian 1940 Cia Transatlantica Scrapped Hong Kong 1946
No.464 Duchess of Atholl launched in 1927
20,119grt for Canadian Pacific from Beardmore, Glasgow Torpedoed by U 178 off Ascension Island in 1942 The ship took my father to Suez via Freetown and Durban in Dec 1940 in Convoy WS 4B
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Beardmore, Canadian Pacific, Duchess of Atholl, Fairfield Glasgow, torpedoed, U178
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No.586 Pretoria launched in 1936
17,891grt for German East Africa Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Empire Doon 1945 Ministry of Transport Empire Orwell 1949 Ministry of Transport Gunung Djati 1959 Pan-Islamic SS Co then Alfred Holt Tanjung Pandan 1979 Indonesian Navy Scrapped Taiwan 1987 … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Pilgrim Ship, troopship
Tagged Alfred Holt, Blohm & Voss, Blue Funnel Line, Empire Doon, Empire Orwell, German East Africa Line, Gunung Djate, Hamburg, Indonesian Navy, Ministry of Transport, Pan-Islamic, Pretoria, Tanjung Pandan
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No.86 Minnesota launched in 1903
20,602grt for Great Northern SS Co from Eastern SB, New London Troy 1919 US Navy Minnesota 1919 Atlantic Transport Line Scrapped Germany 1924
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Atlantic Transport, Great Northern SS, Minnesota, New London, Troy, US Navy
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No.585 Dunvegan Castle launched in 1936
15,007grt for Union-Castle Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by U 46 off Ireland 1940 Sister ship of the Dunnottar Castle which sailed for 68 years Image attribution: BandcStaffRegister
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Tagged Dunvegan Castle, Harland & Wolff, torpedoed, U46, Union Castle
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No.465 Nieuw Holland launched in 1927
10,903grt for Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij by Nederlandsche SB Mij, Amsterdam IMO: 5606875 Scrapped in Hong Kong 1958
The World's Passenger Ships 