Category Archives: troopship

No.487 Milwaukee launched in 1929

Posted on April 20, 2023 by donships

16,699grt Hamburg-America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Empire Waveney 1945 Ministry of Transport Fire in Liverpool 1946, scrapped Dalmuir & Troon 1947

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No.60 Rijndam launched in1901

Posted on April 20, 2023 by donships

12,527grt for Holland-America Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped Netherlands 1929

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No.488 Orontes launched in 1929

Posted on April 19, 2023 by donships

19,970grt for Orient Steam Navigation Co, by Vickers, Barrow Scrapped in Valencia 1962 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & John Grainger Friday 19 January 1962 – the beautiful old Orient liner Orontes – Fremantle Ports

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No.558 Oceania launched in 1932

Posted on April 19, 2023 by donships

19,507grt for Cosulich Soc Triestina di Nav by CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Torpedoed Mediterranean 1941 by HMS Upholder, the same day as her sister Neptunia Image from Fausto Iacono

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No.490 General Osorio launched 1929

Posted on April 19, 2023 by donships

11,590grt for Hamburg-America Line from Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack Transferred to Hamburg-South America in 1936. Accommodation ship at Kiel from Apr 1940. Sunk by air attack at Kiel on 24 Jul 1944, raised. Heavily damaged and sunk again by bombing at … Continue reading →

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No.489 Southern Prince launched in 1929

Posted on April 19, 2023 by donships

10,917grt for Furness, Withy & Co from Lithgows, Port Glasgow Anna C 1947 Costa fu Andrea Scrapped in La Spezia 1971 Image attribution: Roger Scozzafava, IWM, Emerson Franco Rocha & Ship2Shore

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No.557 Queen of Bermuda launched in 1932

Posted on April 19, 2023 by donships

22,575gt for Furness, Withy & Co by Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow Scrapped in Faslane 1966 Unique in that she sailed with 3, 2 and then one funnel Ben Ayre photo

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No.491 Chichibu Maru launched in 1929

Posted on April 19, 2023 by donships

17,498grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Yokohama Dock Co, Yokohama Titibu Maru 1938 Nippon Yusen KK Kamakura Maru 1939 Nippon Yusen KK Torpedoed by US submarine Gudgeon off Lagayan, Philippines 1943

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No.556 Washington launched in 1932

Posted on April 19, 2023 by donships

29,627grt for United States Lines by New York SB Co, Camden Mount Vernon 1941 US Navy Washington 1945 US Maritime Commission Scrapped in Kearny 1965 (Stern view – Washington at Wilmington. August 8, 1940 by Pacific National) Daryl LeBlanc color

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No.492 Rangitata launched 1929

Posted on April 18, 2023 by donships

16,737grt for New Zealand Shipping Company from John Brown, Clydebank Rang 1962 Breakers Scrapped in Split 1962 Image attribution: Barry Parsons & Dedge, 4th image at Curacao

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