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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: Cherbourg
No.477 Leopoldville launched in 1928
11,172grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Cockerill, Hoboken, Belgium Modernised 1936/37 Torpedoed by U 486, off Cherbourg 1944 with tragic loss of life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_L%C3%A9opoldville_(1928)
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Tagged Cherbourg, cockerill, Compagnie Maritime Belge, Hoboken, Leopoldville, torpedoed, U486
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No.36 Potsdam launched in 1899
12,606grt for Holland-America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg Stockholm 1915 Swedish-America Line Solglimt 1928 C Nielsen & Co Sonderburg 1941 German War Prize Scuttled Cherbourg scrapped UK 1947
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Tagged Cherbourg, Holland America Line, Nielsen, Potsdam, Solglimt, Sonderburg
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The World's Passenger Ships 