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No.852 Kungsholm launched in 1952

21,141grt for Swedish America Line from De Schelde, Vlissingen Europa 1965 North German Lloyd Columbus C 1981 Costa Armatori Sank Cadiz 1984 after hitting the harbour wall, scrapped Barcelona 1985 During her world cruise in 1962 when I first saw … Continue reading

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No.940 Kungsholm launched in 1965

26,678grt for Swedish America Line from John Brown, Clydebank IMO: 6512354 Sea Princess 1979 P&O Line Victoria 1995 P&O Line Mona Lisa 2002 Holiday Kreuzfahrten Oceanic II 2007 Louis Cruise Line The Scholar Ship 2007 The Scholar Ship Veronica 2010 … Continue reading

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No.468 Kungsholm launched in 1928

20,223grt for Swedish-America Line from Blohm & Voss, Hamburg John Ericsson 1942 US War Shipping Administration Italia 1948 Home Lines Imperial Bahama 1964 Freeport Bahama Scrapped in Bilbao 1965 IMO: 5516547 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Kungsholm_(1928) Image attribution: Steve Walker Color & Christer Gustafsson

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No.69 Noordam launched in 1901

12,531grt for Holland-America Line Harland & Wolff, Belfast Kungsholm 1922 Chartered to Swedish-America Line Noordam 1924 Holland-America Line Scrapped Netherlands 1928 Image copyright Kungsholm: http://Captainalbert.com Chartered for just under two years to the Swedish America Line

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No.568 Pilsudski launched in 1934

14,294grt for Gdynia-America Line by CR dell’ Adriatico, Monfalcone Mined off the River Humber 1939 Colour photo with the Kungsholm (No.468) and Stella Polaris

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The Compendium of the World’s Passenger Ships 2017

I became aware of passenger ships about the age of 6 from my father’s books. He was a soldier who had been brought up in Gibraltar and the Southampton area so ships played a large part in his life. He … Continue reading

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