Search
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.547 Carthage launched in 1931
14,304grt for P&O Line from Stephen, Glasgow. Two funnels pre-war Carthage Maru 1961 Mitsui Bussan Scrapped in Osaka 1961
Posted in Emigrant Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Carthage, Glasgow, Mitsui Bussan, Osaka, P&O, Stephen
1 Comment
No.402 Oronsay launched in 1924
20,001grt for Orient Line by John Brown, Clydebank Torpedoed by Italian submarine Archimede off West Africa 1942. She survived an attack at St Nazaire when the Lancastria was lost. My father was aboard when she was bombed off Ireland in … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Archimede, Clydebank, John Brown, Lancastria, Orient SN Co, Oronsay, St Nazaire, torpedoed
Leave a comment
No.596 Circassia launched in 1937
11,137grt for Anchor Line by Fairfield, Glasgow Scrapped in Alicante 1966
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Alicante, Anchor Line, Circassia, Fairfield, Glasgow
Leave a comment
No.466 Nieuw Zeeland launched in 1928
10,906grt for Koninklijke Paketvaart Mij from Rotterdamsche DD Mij Torpedoed by U380 in the Mediterranean 1942; not the U407 in many publications Bridge photo 21 July 1930
No.496 Western Prince launched in 1929
10,926grt for Furness, Withy & Co from Napier & Miller, Glasgow Torpedoed by U96 off Orkney in 1940 A single photo, plus a model of her identical sister Northern Prince. Another sister Southern Prince became the ANNA C
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Furness Withy, Glasgow, Napier & Miller, Orkney, torpedoed, Western Prince
Leave a comment
No.1760 Akeman Street launched in 2009
26,904GT for T Link Ferries from Cantiere Navale Visentini, Porto Viro Scintu 2011 Grandi Navi Veloci Norman Atlantic 2014 ANEK Fire 2014, Scrapped Aliaga Image attribution: T-Link, Marco Serra & Caesar Braithwaite
Posted in ferry, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Akeman Street, Aliaga, ANEK, Cantiere Navale Visentini, Grandi Navi Veloci, Norman Atlantic, Porto Viro, Scintu, T Link
Leave a comment
No.481 Asama Maru launched 1928
16,975grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Torpedoed China Sea 1944 Image attribution: Steve Walker & Daryl LeBlanc Color Image from Panama Maru Naoyuki
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Asama Maru, Mitsubishi, Nagasaki, Nippon Yusen, torpedoed
Leave a comment
No.360 Thuringia launched in 1922
11,343grt for Hamburg-America Line by Howaldt Kiel, Kiel General San Martin 1930 Hamburg-South America Line Empire Deben 1946 Ministry of Transport Scrapped in Newport 1949 Image attribution: Dr J Meyer, Hans Hartz & Lawrence Dunn collection
The World's Passenger Ships 