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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: Strength Through Joy
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.591 Wilhelm Gustloff launched in 1937
25,484grt for Hamburg-South America Line by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg. A Strength Through Joy cruise ship. Torpedoed by Soviet submarine S 13 off Stolpmunde in 1945 with terrible losses Image attribution: Steve Walker Color
The World's Passenger Ships 