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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: Bombed
No.193 Hawkes Bay launched in 1912
10,641grt Tyser Line by Workman Clark, Belfast Port Napier 1916 Commonwealth & Dominion Martand 1936 T & J Brocklebank Martano 1938 A Zanchi Mar Bianco 1938 A Zanchi Bombed Yugoslavia 1943
No.159 Anchises launched in 1911
10,046grt for Blue Funnel Line from Workman Clark, Belfast Bombed off Ireland 1941 On 27th February 1941 she was damaged and lost power following an air attack by a Focke-Wolf FW200 Condor off Bloody Foreland, Ireland. A total of 134 … Continue reading
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, Passenger/Cargo
Tagged Anchises, Belfast, Blue Funnel Line, Bombed, Ireland, Workman Clark
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No.151 Aeneas launched in 1910
10,049grt for Blue Funnel Line from Workman Clark, Belfast Bombed off Devon 1940
Posted in Emigrant Ship, Navy Ship, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Aeneas, Belfast, Blue Funnel Line, Bombed, Devon, Workman Clark
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No.408 Monte Olivia launched in 1924
13,750grt for for Hamburg-South America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Bombed Kiel 1945 Her wreck was refloated on June 12th, 1946 and scrapped in 1948 MS Monte Olivia sailing out of Antwerp. circa 1928 Image from Rich Turnwald Kungsholm … Continue reading
Posted in fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Blohm & Voss, Bombed, Hamburg, Hamburg- South America, Kiel, Monte Olivia
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No.403 Statendam launched in 1924
29,511grt for Holland-America Line from Harland & Wolff, Belfast Bombed Rotterdam 1940 Image attribution: Steve Walker Color, Percy Loomis Sperr
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Belfast, Bombed, Harland & Wolff, Holland America Line, Rotterdam, Statendam
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No.607 Robert Ley launched in 1938
27,288grt for Hamburg-America Line by Howaldt Hamburg A ‘Strength Through Joy’ cruise ship Bombed Hamburg 1945, Scrapped Inverkeithing, Scotland 1947 (photo at Thomas Ward Shipbreaking Yard Inverkeithing, in 1947) Rich Turnwald image
Posted in Cruise ship, passenger ship
Tagged Bombed, Hamburg, Hamburg-America, Howaldt, Inverkeithing, Robert Ley, Strength Through Joy
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No.443 New York launched in 1926
21,455 Hamburg-America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Bombed at Kiel in 1945, raised in 1947 scrapped in UK 1949 Image attribution: R. Geyer New York at Curacao
Posted in Cruise ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Blohm & Voss, Bombed, Hamburg, Hamburg-America, Kiel, New York
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No.452 Cap Arcona launched in 1927
27,560grt for Hamburg-South America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Bombed Neustadt in the Bay of Lübeck 1945. Wreck finally broken up in 1949 Tragically, this was one of the largest single-incident maritime losses of life in World War 2 … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship
Tagged Bay of Lubeck, Blohm & Voss, Bombed, Cap Arcona, Hamburg, Hamburg- South America, Neustadt
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No.453 Albertville launched in 1927
10,338grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Ataliers et Chantiers de la Loire, St Nazaire Modernised in 1937, lengthened and a single funnel. Bombed Le Havre 1940 Picture taken at Antwerp, spire to the left is the Pilotage building
The World's Passenger Ships 