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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: Leopoldville
No.759 Leopoldville launched in 1947
10,901grt for Compagnie Maritime Belge from Cockerill, Hoboken P.E. Lumumba 1967 Cie Mar Congolaise Scrapped in Rio Grande 1974 Image attribution: JP Hack on Ship Nostalgia
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)
Posted in ocean liner, passenger liner, passenger ship, troopship
Tagged Cherbourg, cockerill, Compagnie Maritime Belge, Hoboken, Leopoldville, torpedoed, U486
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The World's Passenger Ships 