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Great Passenger Ships of the World 1858-1912

 

Front Cover, Great Passenger Ships of the World, Volume 1: 1858-1912 by Arnold Kludas, Translated from the German by Charles Hodges, 1975.

Front Cover, Great Passenger Ships of the World, Volume 1: 1858-1912 by Arnold Kludas, Translated from the German by Charles Hodges, 1975. GGA Image ID # 2028c94c5b

 

On the Front Cover

The Mauretania (1907) is from a Cunard Line postcard by Odin Rosenvinge. Today, highly prized collectors' pieces, his postcards were generally to a good standard of accuracy. It is thus all the more surprising that the ship's name has been misspelled here!

 

From the Inside DJ Flap

This initial volume deals with Ships from 1858-1912, from the first passenger ship of over 10,000 GRT to be placed in service (the Great Eastern) to those unforgettable sister ships, the Olympic and Titanic — the first of more than 40,000 GRT.

Details of all the 209 vessels covered in this volume are carefully and precisely given by an author who is respected worldwide for his shipping knowledge. As Laurence Dunn, Vice-President of the World Ship Society, says in his foreword to this volume, "In this unbiased approach, we see the touch of the true historian."

 

Contents

  • The Great Eastern
  • The Inman Liners
  • Campania and Lucania
  • St Louis and St Paul
  • The Barbarossa Class
  • The P-Class of the Hamburg-America Line
  • Union Line and Union-Castle Line
  • Nine White Star Liners
  • The B-Class of the Hamburg-America Line
  • German Express Steamers
  • Four Holland-America Liners
  • Eight Newly-built British Ships
  • The Oceanic
  • Rhein and Main
  • CGT Express Steamers
  • Ivernia and Saxonia
  • Atlantic Transport Liners
  • The Red Star Line
  • Pacific Mail Liners
  • White Star's 'Big Four'
  • Danish North Atlantic Steamers
  • Six British Intermediates
  • The Majestic
  • The M-Class of the P & O Line
  • Minnesota and Dakota
  • The Presidents Grant and Lincoln
  • Caronia and Carmania
  • Allan Liners
  • The Amerika-Class
  • Nieuw Amsterdam and Rotterdam
  • Two Empresses
  • The A-Class of Royal Mail Lines
  • Lusitania and Mauretania
  • Heliopolis and Cairo
  • The Tenyo Maru Class of the Toyo Risen KK
  • Four 17,000 Tonners for Hamburg-America and North German Lloyd
  • Four Newly-built Ships for CGT
  • Aberdeen Liners
  • Five British Atlantic Liners
  • Six Australian Service Steamers of the Orient Line
  • Lamport & Holt Liners
  • New Zealand Liners
  • Two Union-Castle Express Steamers
  • Emigrant Ships to Australia and New Zealand
  • The Cunard Liners Franconia and Laconia
  • Blue Funnel Liners
  • The White Star Line's Olympic Class
  • The Argyllshire-Class
  • Paul Lecat and André Lebon
  • Anchor Liner Cameronia
  • Hamburg-South America Liner Cap Finisterre
  • The B-Class of the P & O Line
  • Kaiser Franz Josef I
  • The D-Class of Royal Mail Lines
  • The Niagara
  • Empresses for the Pacific
  • Spanish North Atlantic Liners
  • Norwegian America Liners
  • White Star Liner Ceramic
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index of Ships' Names

 

Back Cover, Great Passenger Ships of the World, Volume 1: 1858-1912 by Arnold Kludas, Translated from the German by Charles Hodges, 1975.

Back Cover, Great Passenger Ships of the World, Volume 1: 1858-1912 by Arnold Kludas, Translated from the German by Charles Hodges, 1975. GGA Image ID # 2028e181c2

 

On the Back Cover

Brunei's SS Great Eastern (top) and the SS Ceramic of the White Star Line.

 

From the Back Cover

This invaluable and carefully researched book - the first in a series of five - is an important statistical, historical, and pictorial reference source for shipping enthusiasts, historians, and marine engineers.

 

About the Author

Arnold Kludas is a technical engineer in a major Hamburg shipyard. He contributes articles to many maritime journals worldwide and has compiled complete fleet lists for major shipping companies. With the original German publication of Great Passenger Ships of the World, he was acknowledged as one of the leading experts in his field.

 

Five Volumes Planned

The five volumes in this outstanding series aim to present, for the first time in international maritime literature, a work covering all passenger ships to date of over 10,000 gross registered tons, with relevant technical and historical data, including photographs of the vessels.

 

Index to Ships In Volume 1

 

▓▓▓ "A" ▓▓▓

  1. Adriatic
  2. Aeneas
  3. Aeolus
  4. Afric
  5. Agamemnon
  6. Albany
  7. Alberta
  8. Alcala
  9. Alcantara
  10. Aliya
  11. Almanzora
  12. Amazon
  13. America
  14. American
  15. American Shipper
  16. Amerika
  17. Anchises
  18. Andes
  19. André Lebon
  20. Antillan
  21. Arabic 1903
  22. Arabic 1909
  23. Aragon
  24. Araguaya
  25. Arcadian
  26. Arctic Queen
  27. Argentina (Panama)
  28. Argentina (Spain)
  29. Argyllshire
  30. Arlanza
  31. Armadale Castle
  32. Ascanius
  33. Asturias
  34. Asuncion
  35. Athenic
  36. Atlantis
  37. Audacious
  38. Auriga
  39. Avoca
  40. Avon

 

▓▓▓ "B" ▓▓▓

  1. Ballarat
  2. Balmoral Castle
  3. Baltic
  4. Barbarossa
  5. Batavia
  6. Bavaria
  7. Bavarian
  8. Belgia
  9. Belgic
  10. Belgravia
  11. Beltana
  12. Benalla
  13. Bergensfjord
  14. Berlin 1907
  15. Berlin 1909
  16. Berlin 1925
  17. Berrima
  18. Blücher
  19. Borda
  20. Borussia
  21. Boston
  22. Bothnia
  23. Brasil
  24. Brasilia
  25. Bremen 1897
  26. Bremen 1900
  27. Bremen 1929
  28. Britannic
  29. Briton
  30. Buenos Ayres
  31. Bulgaria
  32. Burelígala
  33. Burma

 

▓▓▓ "C" ▓▓▓

  1. Cairo
  2. Californian
  3. Cameronia
  4. Campania
  5. Canada
  6. Canopic
  7. Cap Finisterre
  8. Cap Trafalgar
  9. Carmania
  10. Caronia
  11. Carpathia
  12. Catlin
  13. Cedric
  14. Celt
  15. Celtic
  16. Ceramic
  17. Chicago
  18. Chiyo Maru
  19. Cincinnati
  20. City of Honolulu 1896
  21. City of Honolulu 1900
  22. City of Los Angeles
  23. City of New York
  24. City of Paris
  25. Clan Urquhart
  26. Cleveland
  27. Columbus
  28. Commonwealth
  29. Cornus
  30. Constantinople
  31. Corinthic
  32. Corsican
  33. Covington
  34. Cretic
  35. Cymric
  36. Czar

 

▓▓▓ "D" ▓▓▓

  1. Daisy
  2. Dakota
  3. Darro
  4. Demerara
  5. Demosthenes
  6. Deseado
  7. Desna
  8. Deutschland
  9. Devonian 1900
  10. Devonian 1902
  11. Drina
  12. Drottningholm

 

▓▓▓ "E" ▓▓▓

  1. Edinburgh Castle
  2. Edison
  3. Edmund B. Alexander
  4. Elbe V
  5. Eleonore Woermann
  6. Embleton
  7. Empire Evenlode
  8. Empire Pakeha
  9. Empire Waimana
  10. Empress of Asia
  11. Empress of Britain
  12. Empress of China
  13. Empress of India
  14. Empress of Ireland
  15. Empress of Russia
  16. Empress of Scotland
  17. Eolo
  18. Espagne
  19. Europa

 

▓▓▓ "F" ▓▓▓

  1. Ferdinando Palasciano
  2. Finland
  3. Florida
  4. Foxhound
  5. France
  6. France IV
  7. Franconia
  8. Frankfurt
  9. Friedrich der Grosse

 

▓▓▓ "G" ▓▓▓

  1. Galician
  2. Gange
  3. Garonne
  4. Generale Diaz
  5. George Washington
  6. Gertrud
  7. Gladiator
  8. Graf Waldersee
  9. Grampian
  10. Great Eastern
  11. Greif
  12. Grenadier
  13. Grosser Kurfürst
  14. Guadeloupe

 

▓▓▓ "H" ▓▓▓

  1. Hamburg
  2. Hanoverian
  3. Hansa
  4. Harrisbürg
  5. Harvard
  6. Harvard Queen
  7. Haverford
  8. Hawke
  9. Hawkes Bay
  10. Hektoria
  11. Heliopolis
  12. Hellig Olav
  13. Helvetia
  14. Hercules
  15. Hermes
  16. Herminius
  17. Heroic
  18. Hesperian
  19. Highflyer
  20. Homeland
  21. Hudson
  22. Huron

 

▓▓▓ "I" ▓▓▓

  1. Indrapura
  2. Infanta Isabel de Borbon
  3. Instructor
  4. Ionic
  5. Irishman
  6. Italia
  7. Ivernia
  8. Ixion

 

▓▓▓ "J" ▓▓▓

  1. Jacob van Heemskerk
  2. Jerusalem

 

▓▓▓ "K" ▓▓▓

  1. Kaiser Franz Josef I
  2. Kaiser Friedrich
  3. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
  4. Kaiser Wilhelm II
  5. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
  6. Kapiti
  7. Karlsruhe 1900
  8. Karlsruhe SMS
  9. Kashmir
  10. Kenilworth Castle
  11. Kiautschou
  12. Kincora
  13. King Alexander 1897
  14. King Alexander 1909
  15. Knoxville
  16. König Albert
  17. Königin Luise
  18. Koordistan
  19. Korea
  20. Korea Maru
  21. Kraljica Marija
  22. Kristianiafjord
  23. Kronprinz Wilhelm
  24. Kronprinzessin Cecilie
  25. Kroonland
  26. Kungsholm

 

▓▓▓ "L" ▓▓▓

  1. La Lorraine
  2. La Picardie
  3. La Provence
  4. La Savoie
  5. La Touraine
  6. Laconia
  7. Lapland
  8. Laristan
  9. Laurentic
  10. Leopoldina
  11. Leviathan
  12. Lorraine II
  13. Loughborough
  14. Louisville
  15. Lucania
  16. Lucigen
  17. Lusitania

 

▓▓▓ "M" ▓▓▓

  1. Macedonia
  2. Madura
  3. Main
  4. Majestic
  5. Makarini
  6. Maloja
  7. Malwa
  8. Mamari
  9. Mamilius
  10. Manchuria
  11. Mantua
  12. Mar Bianco
  13. Marburn
  14. Marco Polo
  15. Marglen
  16. Marguerite Ryan
  17. Marije
  18. Marloch
  19. Marmora
  20. Martand
  21. Martano
  22. Marvale
  23. Mauretania
  24. Mayflower
  25. Medic
  26. Medina
  27. Megantic
  28. Mercury
  29. Merion
  30. Mesaba
  31. Michigan
  32. Minneapolis
  33. Minnehaha
  34. Minnekahda
  35. Minnelora
  36. Minnesota 1901
  37. Minnesota 1904
  38. Minnetonka
  39. Minnewaska 1903
  40. Minnewaska 1909
  41. Mississippi
  42. Mobile
  43. Moltke
  44. Mongolia
  45. Monteith
  46. Monticello
  47. Montlaurier
  48. Montnairn
  49. Montreal
  50. Montroyal
  51. Morea
  52. Mounsey
  53. Mount Temple
  54. Mount Vernon
  55. Muñamar
  56. Munster
  57. Myriam

 

▓▓▓ "N" ▓▓▓

  1. Nansemond
  2. Nantucket Lightship
  3. Narragansett
  4. Nestor
  5. New England
  6. New Rochelle
  7. New Sevilla
  8. New York
  9. Niagara
  10. Nieuw Amsterdam
  11. Nipponia
  12. Noorclam
  13. Norseman
  14. Northern Light
  15. Northland

 

▓▓▓ "O" ▓▓▓

  1. Oceana
  2. Oceanic
  3. Olympic
  4. Omar
  5. Orama
  6. Oreoma
  7. Orinoco
  8. Orion
  9. Orsova
  10. Orvieto
  11. Oscar II
  12. Osterley
  13. Otranto
  14. Otway

 

▓▓▓ "P" ▓▓▓

  1. Pakeha
  2. Panamanian
  3. Paris
  4. Patricia
  5. Paul Lecat
  6. Pavia
  7. Peel
  8. Pelagos
  9. Pennsylvania
  10. Pericles
  11. Persic
  12. Pesaro
  13. Philadelphia
  14. Philippines
  15. Pinguin
  16. Pisagua
  17. Pishchevaya Industriya
  18. Plattsburg
  19. Pocahontas
  20. Polonia
  21. Port Adelaide
  22. Port Napier
  23. Port Nicholson
  24. Potsdam
  25. Powhatan
  26. President Arthur
  27. President Buchanan
  28. President Fillmore 1900
  29. President Fillmore 1904
  30. President Grant
  31. President Johnson
  32. President Lincoln
  33. Presidente Wilson
  34. Pretoria
  35. Princess Matoika
  36. Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm
  37. Prinzess Alice
  38. Prinzess Irene
  39. Provence II

 

▓▓▓ "R" ▓▓▓

  1. Rangatira
  2. Red Cross
  3. Reina Victoria Eugenia
  4. Remuera
  5. Reno
  6. Republic 1903
  7. Republic 1907
  8. Resolution
  9. Revenge
  10. Rhein
  11. Riga
  12. Rijndam
  13. Rochambeau
  14. Romanic
  15. Rotorua 1910
  16. Rotorua 1911
  17. Rotterdam
  18. Royal Edward
  19. Royal George
  20. Ruahine
  21. Runic

 

▓▓▓ "S" ▓▓▓

  1. Saale
  2. St Louis
  3. St Paul
  4. Samland
  5. San Giovannino
  6. Santa Cruz
  7. Savoie
  8. Saxon
  9. Saxonia
  10. Scandinavian
  11. Scotian 1898
  12. Scotian 1903
  13. Scourge
  14. Servian
  15. Seydlitz
  16. Shinyo Maru
  17. Shropshire
  18. Siberia
  19. Siberia Maru
  20. Skytteren
  21. Slavonia
  22. Solglimt
  23. Sonderburg
  24. Southland
  25. Spadefish
  26. Statendam
  27. Stockholm
  28. Storstad
  29. Suevic
  30. Suffren
  31. Susquehanna

 

▓▓▓ "T" ▓▓▓

  1. Taiseiyo Maru
  2. Taiyo Maru
  3. Talthybius
  4. Taruyasu Maru
  5. Tenyo Maru
  6. Teutonia
  7. Teutonic
  8. Themistocles
  9. Thomas
  10. Tiger
  11. Titanic
  12. Transbait
  13. Troy
  14. Tung Shing
  15. Tunisian

 

▓▓▓ "U" ▓▓▓

  1. U20
  2. U24
  3. U33
  4. U35
  5. U39
  6. U48
  7. U50
  8. U52
  9. U53
  10. U55
  11. U62
  12. U64
  13. U70
  14. U73
  15. U80
  16. U81
  17. U86
  18. U90
  19. U94
  20. U96
  21. U103
  22. U138
  23. U160
  24. U515
  25. U608
  26. UB8
  27. UB14
  28. UB31
  29. UB32
  30. UB47
  31. UB64
  32. UCl
  33. UC17
  34. UC49
  35. UC65
  36. UC66
  37. Ultonia
  38. Ulysses
  39. United States 1901
  40. United States 1903
  41. Uruguay

 

▓▓▓ "V" ▓▓▓

  1. Vaderland
  2. Vandyck
  3. Vasari
  4. Vauban
  5. Vestris
  6. Victoria Luise
  7. Victorian
  8. Virginian
  9. Vittoria
  10. Volturno
  11. Von Steuben

 

▓▓▓ "W" ▓▓▓

  1. Waimana
  2. Walmer Castle
  3. Wanganella
  4. Weehawken
  5. White Palace
  6. Wiltshire
  7. Winifredian
  8. Wyoming

 

▓▓▓ "Y" ▓▓▓

  1. Yale
  2. Yamuna

 

▓▓▓ "Z" ▓▓▓

  1. Zealandic
  2. Zeeland
  3. Zero
  4. Zwarte Zee

 

Library of Congress Catalog Listing

  • Personal name: Kludas, Arnold.
  • Uniform title: Grossen Passagierschiffe der Welt.
  • English Main title: Great passenger ships of the world / [by] Arnold Kludas; translated [from the German] by Charles Hodges.
  • Published/Created: Cambridge: Stephens, 1975-1977.
  • Description: 5 v. ill.; 25 cm.
  • ISBN: 0850591740 (v. 1) :
  • LC Classification: VM381 .K5813
  • Contents: v. 1. 1858-1912.--v. 2. 1913-1923.--v. 3. 1924-1935.--4. 1936-1950.--v. 5. 1951-1976.
  • LC Subjects: Ocean liners. Passenger ships.
  • Notes: Translation of Die grossen Passagierschiffe der Welt. Includes indexes.
  • Bibliography: v. 1, p. 213.
  • LCCN: 76355859
  • Dewey class no.: 387.2/432
  • Language code: engger
  • National bib no.: GB75-31009 (v. 1)
  • Type of material: Book

 

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