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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: Lancastria
No.293 Tyrrhenia launched in 1920
16,243grt for Cunard Line from Beardmore, Glasgow Lancastria 1924 Cunard Line Bombed St Nazaire 1940 with severe loss of life
Posted in Cruise ship, Navy Ship, ocean liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Beardmore, Bombed, Cunard Line, Glasgow, Lancastria, Tyrrhenia
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No.402 Oronsay launched in 1924
20,001grt for Orient Line by John Brown, Clydebank Torpedoed by Italian submarine Archimede off West Africa 1942. She survived an attack at St Nazaire when the Lancastria was lost. My father was aboard when she was bombed off Ireland in … Continue reading
Posted in Cruise ship, Emigrant Ship, fire on ship, ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Archimede, Clydebank, John Brown, Lancastria, Orient SN Co, Oronsay, St Nazaire, torpedoed
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The World's Passenger Ships 