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unusual facts about passenger ship



Charles Muñoz

After serving as a WWII navy aerial gunner in torpedo bombers, Muñoz next worked as a United States Merchant Marine radio officer, contentedly sailing on freighters, tankers, and passenger ships until, the world being what it was, he sailed for several years on munitions ships bound for duty in the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

MV Akdeniz

The MV Akdeniz is a 1955 built Turkish passenger ship that served on both ferry and cruise voyages for the Turkish Maritime Lines until she became a student accommodation and training ship in Tuzla, Istanbul Province for the Maritime Technology branch of the Istanbul Technical University.

Pajtás

Pajtás was a steam powered passenger ship manufactured in 1918, by Schlick-Nicholson shipyard in Budapest.

Satakundskaya Flotilla

The flotilla was founded during spring 1916, as the Russian military commissioned the Finnish passenger ships SS Tarjanne, SS Kuru and SS Pohjola and the tugs Murole and Näsijärvi.


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1947 Ramdas Ship Disaster

The Indian passenger ship Ramdas bound for Rewas in Maharashta on July 17, 1947 capsized near Gull Island, ten miles from the Colaba Point at Mumbai killing 625 people on board.

Aquarama

SS Aquarama, a passenger ship that operated on the Great Lakes.

Arosa Kulm

The SS Arosa Kulm was a passenger ship which was launched at Hog Island, Pennsylvania in 1919 and ended as being sold for scrapping in 1959.

Charles T. Jeffery

Jeffery was totally committed to the company and its success before he became a passenger on the ill-fated passenger ship RMS Lusitania in 1915.

Franconian Lake District

European biggest Trimaran passenger ship, MS "Brombachsee", crosses the Lake in line operation daily.

Mercedes Matter

She worked with Fernand Léger, who would become a close friend, on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company and again privately on another mural.

Meyer Werft

Most probably the second oldest passenger ship still in service (oldest probably Gisela, a paddle steamer on Traunsee, Austria)

Murder on the Leviathan

French detective Gustave Gauche, in charge of the investigation, boards the passenger ship "Leviathan".

Nautical chart

A similar incident involving a passenger ship occurred in 1992 when the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth 2 struck a submerged rock off Block Island in the Atlantic Ocean.

Schermützelsee

On the sea the passenger ship „MS Scherri“ is in operation since 1992, which was built in 1879 by the Reiherstiegwerft in Hamburg.

SS Abbotsford

The SS Abbotsford was a brig-rigged iron passenger ship built by the Gourlay Brothers of Dundee for the Red Star Line, of Antwerp.

The Balmoral

MV Balmoral, a passenger ship which cruises the south coast of England

Valour-class frigate

The 4230-gross-ton (GRT) passenger ship SS Mendi was ferrying the mostly-Pondo 5th Battalion, SA Native Labour Corps (SANLC) from Britain to France when the steamer collided with the 11,000 GRT liner SS Darro during the early hours of February 21, 1917.

Western Belle

MV Western Belle, a British commercial passenger ship built in 1935 and laid up since 2008

Wilhelm Gustloff

Crabwalk the assassination of Gustloff is an element of the plot of this 2002 novel, even though its main subject is the sinking of passenger-ship named in his memory.