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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.
Tag Archives: Belfast
No.184 Makarini launched in 1912
10,624grt for Tyser Line from Workman Clark, Belfast Port Nicholson 1914 Commonwealth & Dominion Mined Dunkirk 1917 Image attribution: Australian War Memorial
No.870 Southern Cross launched in 1954
20,204grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Calypso 1973 Cia de Vap Cerulea SA Calypso I 1980 Eastern Steamship Lines Azure Seas 1980 Western Steamships OceanBreeze 1992 Dolphin Cruise OceanBreeze 1999 Imperial Majesty Scrapped Chittagong 2003 … Continue reading
No.770 Magdalena launched 1948
17,547grt for Royal Mail Lines from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Aground near Rio de Janeiro on her maiden voyage 1949
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Aground, Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Magdalena, Rio de Janeiro, royal Mail Line
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No.433 Carnarvon Castle launched in 1926
20,063grt for Union-Castle Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Mihara Japan 1962 Image from Rich Turnwald Collection & Trevor Jones She was patched up using plates salvaged from the Graf Spee in Montevideo. Image from Trevor Jones Image … Continue reading
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Belfast, Carnarvon Castle, Harland & Wolff, Mihara, Union Castle
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No.439 Llandaff Castle launched in 1926
10,786grt for Union-Castle Line from Workman Clark, Belfast Torpedoed by U 177 of Mozambique in 1942
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo, troopship
Tagged Belfast, Llandaff Castle, Mozambique, torpedoed, U177, Union Castle, Workman Clark
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No.180 Deseado launched in 1911
11,477grt for Royal Mail Lines from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Japan 1934
Posted in Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Belfast, Deseado, Harland & Wolff, Japan, royal Mail Line
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No.179 Arlanza launched in 1911
15,044grt for Royal Mail Lines from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Blyth 1938 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color Olympic, Arlanza & Empress of Britain at Southampton in the early 1930s
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Arlanza, Belfast, Blyth, Harland & Wolff, royal Mail Line
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No.866 Iberia launched in 1954
29,614grt for P & O Line by Harland & Wolff, Belfast Scrapped in Kaohsiung 1972 Photo: Ben Ayre From Beken of Cowes In Singapore 1962 with Pulau Blakang Mati, now Sentosa, behind David Meare photo
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Belfast, Harland & Wolff, Iberia, Kaohsiung, P&O
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No.173 Vandyck launched in 1911
10,328grt for Lamport & Holt from Workman Clark, Belfast Scuttled South Atlantic 1914 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Vandyck_(1911)
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Tagged Belfast, Lamport & Holt, South Atlantic, Vandyck, Workman Clark
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No.171 Waimana launched in 1911
10,389grt for Shaw, Savill & Albion by Workman Clark, Belfast Herminius 1926 Aberdeen Line Waimana 1932 Shaw, Savill & Albion Empire Waimana 1941 Ministry of War Transport Waimana 1946 Shaw, Savill & Albion Scrapped Milford Haven 1952 Empire Waimana 1941 … Continue reading
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