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No.721 Marine Serpent launched in 1945

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12,420grt for US Maritime Commission from Kaiser, Vancouver Galveston 1968 Sea Land Service Scrapped Kaohsiung Image attribution: David M. Davis

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No.241 William O’Swald launched in 1914

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20,200grt for Hamburg-America Line from A.G. ‘Weser’, Bremen Brabantia 1920 Royal Holland Lloyd Resolute 1922 United American Lines Resolute 1926 Hamburg-America Line Lombardia 1935 Lloyd Triestino Bombed Naples 1943 Image: Liverpool Maritime Museum

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No.161 Paul Lecat launched in 1911

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12,989grt for Messageries Maritimes by Constructions Navales, La Ciotat Scrapped La Spezia 1928 Image attribution: http://messageries-maritimes.org

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No.80 Kaiser Wilhelm II launched in 1902

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19,361grt for North German Lloyd by Vulcan, Stettin Agamemnon 1917 US Navy Monticello 1929 US Shipping Board Scrapped Baltimore 1940 Photo from Rich Turnwald USS Agamemnon after World War One in 1919. (Boston Public Library – Leslie Jones)

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No.681 Admiral W L Capps launched 1944

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17,100grt for US Navy from Bethlehem Steel Co, Alameda, California Gen Hugh J Gaffey 1947 US Army Sunk as a target in the Pacific in 2000 General Hugh J.Gaffey (IX-507) at Pearl Harbor 1986

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No.1161 Rinjani launched in 1984

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13,860GT for Indonesian Government (PELNI) by Jos. L. Meyer, Papenburg Tanjung Fatagar 2010 Indonesian Navy IMO: 8303252 Image attribution: Operationraleighseram & Jens Smit

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No.45 Minnehaha launched in 1900

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13,403grt for Atlantic Transport Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by U 48 off Fastnet 1917

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No.44 Minneapolis launched in 1899

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13,401grt for Atlantic Transport Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Torpedoed by U35 Malta in 1916

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No.497 Tatsuta Maru launched in 1929

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16,975grt for Nippon Yusen KK from Mitsubishi, Nagasaki Tatuta Maru 1938 Nippon Yusen KK Torpedoed by US submarine Tarpon off Japan 1943 Image attribution: Yoshiaki Nishimura Tatsuta Maru, marked with symbols of safe passage while working as a repatriation ship … Continue reading →

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No.43 Saxonia launched in 1899

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14,281grt for Cunard Line from John Brown, Clydebank Scrapped Netherlands 1925 Image copyright: Steve Walker Color

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