Great Passenger Ships of the World 1951-1976

Front Cover and Spine, Great Passenger Ships of the World, Volume 5: 1951-1976 by Arnold Kludas, 1977. Translated from the German "Die Grossen Passagierschiffe der Welt" by Charles Hodges. Front Cover Image: The Queen Elizabeth 2 under Tow at Southampton, a Painting by Harley Crossley Specially Commissioned for This Book. GGA Image ID # 204b8847f0

From the Inside DJ Flap

This volume, covering the years 1951-1976, embraces a period of dramatic change in ocean travel, the growth in airline travel causing a sharp decline in passenger liner building and existing liners being increasingly used in the cruising role. However, the period also saw a rapid rise in the number of car ferries built, many of them exceeding 10,000 GRT. Several outstandingly beautiful modern liners were built: the QE2, Canberra and Oriana, the United States, and the Augustus.

As with the existing volumes in this series, this book gives concise details of every passenger vessel of over 10,000 GRT built during the period, with dimensions, performance data, crew and passenger complements, and a survey of each ship's career. Every class of vessel is illustrated, and a helpful appendix gives details of all the owners and builders of ships covered in all five volumes.

Excerpt from the Foreword

This fifth volume in the series tells the story of the development of large passenger ships up to the present day. During the 1950s, large passenger ships were again built for regular timetabled services on all the traditional routes.

At the end of that decade, however, it must have become apparent to even the most persistent doubter that the airplane was dominant in overseas passenger-carrying; orders for passenger liners showed a marked decrease everywhere.

While almost 100 passenger ships of over 10,000 GRT were launched during the 1950s, the total for 1961-1970 was 42 units. But from the mid-1960s, most of the large passenger ships, then being increasingly ordered, were conceived as cruise liners.

More recently, the ever-growing mobility of people from highly developed nations has created a demand for car ferries, now often exceeding 10,000 GRT.

Contents

• New Ships for 'Italia'
• Lloyd Triestino Liners
• Independence and Constitution
• P&O-Orient Liners
• Three New British Ships
• SGTM Liners
• The Yapeyu Class
• Kenya and Uganda
• Ryndam and Maasdam
• Tanker and Passenger Vessel San Lorenzo
• Passenger Ships of the Monasterio Class
• Union-Castle Turbine Steamers
• Antilles and Flandre
• Vera Cruz and Santa Maria
• The United States
• Messageries Maritimes Liners
• Chargeurs Réunis Liners
• Ellerman Liners
• Fraissinet Liners
• Conversions 1950-1958
• Swedish America Liners
• The Olympia
• Ulge and Niassa
• The Saxonia Class
• Osaka Shosen Liners
• Shaw Savill Liners
• Ybarra Liners
• The Reina del Mar
• The Last Empresses
• Nevasa and Oxfordshire
• The Bergensfjord
• Jadotville and Baudouinville
• Holland-America Liners
• The Ausonia
• Federico C.
• Santa Rosa and Santa Paula
• Pendennis, Windsor and Transvaal Castle
• Moore-McCormack Liners
• The Randfontein
• The Amazon Class
• The Nuclear-powered Savannah
• Oriana and Canberra
• Portuguese Liners
• The France
• Lloyd Triestino Australia Ships
• The Ru Yung
• Brazilian Passenger Ships
• Grace Liners
• Ancerville and Renaissance
• Michelangelo and Raffaelo
• Japanese Exhibition Ships
• Zim Israel Liner Shalom
• Oceanic
• The Ivan Franko Class
• The Empress of Australia
• Norwegian America Liners
• Costa Liner Eugenio C.
• The Kungsholm
• Sunsarda Liner Italia
• The Pasteur
• Pakistani Passenger Ships
• Greek Car Ferries
• The Amelia de Mello
• The Yaohua
• Queen Elizabeth 2
• The Hamburg
• Freeport Cruise Liner
• Klosters Liners
• Royal Caribbean Cruise Liners
• Blenheim and Boheme
• Norwegian Cruise Ships
• Dubigeon Ferries
• British Cruise Liners
• The Royal Viking Class
• The Princess of Acadia
• Japanese Car Ferries
• New Ships for the Congo Service
• Danish Liners
• Aznar Ferries
• North Sea Ferries
• TT Ferries
• New Ships since 1974
• Owners
• Builders
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Index of Ships' Names

Back Cover, Great Passenger Ships of the World, Volume 5: 1951-1976 by Arnold Kludas, 1977. Back Cover Images: (above) The Cruise Liner Starward in Caribbean Waters. (Left) Italia's Raffaello and Michaelangelo at Genoa. GGA Image ID # 204ba52751

From the Back Cover

With the decline of the passenger liner in its traditional role due to competition from the airlines, shipping lines during the 1960s and '70s increasingly turned to cruising with such beautiful vessels as the QE2, Canberra and Oriana which are featured in this volume.

The original index included all ships whose names appear in Volumes 1-5. Only ships referenced in volume five are listed below.

▓▓▓ "A" ▓▓▓

1. Africa
2. Akarita
3. Akaroa 1959
4. Akrotiri Express
5. AlHasa
6. Alberto Dodero
7. Aleksandr Pushkin
8. Alessandro Volta
9. Amazon 1959
10. Amelia de Mello
11. Amerikanis
12. Ancerville
13. Ancona
14. Anna Nery
15. Antilles
16. Antonio Pacinotti
17. Aquarama
18. Aragon 1959
19. Aranda
20. Arawa 1960
21. Arcadia
22. Argentina 1958
23. Argentina Maru 1958
24. Arlanza 1960
25. Asia 1951
26. Atalante
27. Atlantic 1926
28. Atlantic 1953
29. Atlas
30. Attacker
31. Augustus 1950
32. Aurania 1917
33. Aurelia
34. Aureol
35. Ausonia 1921
36. Ausonia 1956
37. Australia
38. Australien
39. Azerbaydzhan
40. Azur

▓▓▓ "B" ▓▓▓

1. Badger Mariner
2. Baltic 1969
3. Barnes
4. Baudouinville 1957
5. Beaverbrae
6. Begona
7. Belorussiya
8. Bergensfjord 1955
9. Blenheim 1970
10. Blue Sea
11. Boheme
12. Bolero
13. Bore Star
14. Braemar Castle
15. Brasil 1957
16. Brasil 1958
17. Brazil Maru 1954
18. La Bretagne 1951
19. Brittany

▓▓▓ "C" ▓▓▓

1. Cable
2. Cabo San Roque
3. Cabo San Vicente
4. Calédonien
5. Calgarian
6. Calypso
7. Cambodge
8. Canberra
9. Cape Ann
10. Caribe
11. Caribia 1947
12. Carinthia 1955
13. Carla C.
14. Carmania 1954
15. Carnivale
16. Castel Bianco
17. Castel Felice
18. Castel Forte
19. Castelbianco
20. Cathay 1957
21. Central No 1
22. Central No 3
23. Chidambaram
24. Chitral 1955
25. City of Durban
26. City of Exeter
27. City of Port Elizabeth
28. City of York
29. Clement Ader
30. Climax Opal
31. Constitution
32. Copenhagen
33. Coral Riviera
34. Cormoran
35. Covodonga
36. Cremona
37. Cristoforo Colombo
38. Cunard Adventurer
39. Cunard Ambassador
40. Cunard Conquest
41. Cunard Countess
42. Cunard Princess

▓▓▓ "D" ▓▓▓

1. Daisetsu
2. Dana Regina
3. Danae
4. Daphne
5. De Grasse 1955
6. Delphi
7. Diemerdyk 1949
8. Dinteldyk 1949
9. Dinteldyk 1956
10. Donizetti
11. Doric 1962

▓▓▓ "E" ▓▓▓

1. Eagle
2. Eastern Princess
3. Eastern Queen
4. Edam
5. Edmund B. Alexander
6. Edouard Branly
7. Edward H. Allen
8. El-Djazair
9. Elizabeth Moran
10. Empress Abeto
11. Empress of Australia 1964
12. Empress of Britain 1955
13. Empress of Canada 1960
14. Empress of England
15. Enrico C.
16. Eugenio C.
17. Europa 1951
18. Europa 1952

▓▓▓ "F" ▓▓▓

1. Fabiolaville
2. Fair Sky
3. Fairland
4. Fairsea 1955
5. Fairsky
6. Fairstar
7. Fairstone
8. Fairwind
9. Federico C.
10. Fedor Shalyapin
11. Ferdinand de Lesseps
12. Ferry Akashia
13. Finnjet
14. Flandre
15. France 1960
16. Franconia 1955
17. Free State Mariner
18. Freeport
19. Freeport I

▓▓▓ "G" ▓▓▓

1. Galileo Ferraris
2. Galileo Galilei
3. General Le Roy Eltinge
4. General M. L. Hersey
5. General Mangin
6. Giulio Cesare 1950
7. Gripsholm 1956
8. Gruziya
9. Guadalupe
10. Guglielmo Marconi 1961

▓▓▓ "H" ▓▓▓

1. Hamburg 1968
2. Hanseatic 1962
3. Hanseatic 1968
4. Harborough
5. Heleanna
6. Henri Poincaré
7. Hoegh Transit
8. Hoegh Traveller
9. Hoegh Trotter
10. Hong Kong Success
11. Huascaran
12. Hydra

▓▓▓ "I" ▓▓▓

1. Iberia
2. Independence
3. Infante dom Henrique
4. Iran Cremona
5. Ishikari
6. Island of Cyprus
7. Island Princess
8. Island Venture
9. Italia 1965
10. Ithaca
11. Ivan Franko
12. Ivernia 1953

▓▓▓ "J" ▓▓▓

1. Jadotville
2. Jean Laborde 1952
3. Jean Mermoz
4. Joan Moran

▓▓▓ "K" ▓▓▓

1. Kananga
2. Kareliya
3. Kazakhstan
4. Kenya 1930
5. Kenya 1950
6. Kenya Castle
7. Keren
8. Kholmogory
9. King David
10. King Salomon
11. Knossos
12. Kronprins Harald
13. Kungsholm 1952
14. Kungsholm 1965
15. Kydon

▓▓▓ "L" ▓▓▓

1. La Bourdonnais
2. Laos
3. Leda
4. Leonardo da Vinci 1958
5. Leonid Sobinov
6. Linda Clausen
7. Louis Lumière
8. Louise Lykes I
9. Louisiane

▓▓▓ "M" ▓▓▓

1. Maasdam
2. Maipu
3. Maksim Gorkij
4. Malaysia Baru
5. Malaysia Kita
6. Malaysia Raya
7. Mardi Gras
8. Marianna VI
9. Marine Star
10. Mariposa 1952
11. Massalia
12. Mediterranean Dolphin
13. Mediterranean Island
14. Mediterranean Sea
15. Mediterranean Sky
16. Mediterranean Sun
17. Mei Abeto
18. Mermoz
19. Michelangelo
20. Mikhail Lermontov
21. Minghua
22. Monarch Sun
23. Monasterio de el Escorial
24. Monasterio de Guadalupe
25. Monasterio de la Rabida
26. Monte Granada
27. Monte Toledo
28. Monte Ulia
29. Monterey 1952
30. Munkedal
31. Mykinai

▓▓▓ "N" ▓▓▓

1. Napoleon
2. Navarino
3. Neptunia 1950
4. Nevasa
5. Niassa
6. Nieuw Holland 1958
7. Nils Holgersson
8. Nippon Maru
9. Nisos Kypros
10. Nitta Maru
11. Noor Jehan
12. Nordic Prince
13. Norland
14. Norstar
15. Northern Star

▓▓▓ "O" ▓▓▓

1. Ocean Endurance
2. Ocean Monarch 1950
3. Ocean Monarch 1956
4. Ocean Queen
5. Oceania 1950
6. Oceanic 1963
7. Oceanic 1969
8. Oceanic Constitution
9. Oceanic Independence
10. Odessa V/188
11. Ohrmazd
12. Olympia 1952
13. Olympia 1953
14. Oranje I
15. Oranjefontein I
16. Oriana
17. Oriental Fantasia
18. Oriental Rio
19. Oronsay 1950
20. Orsova 1953
21. Oxfordshire

▓▓▓ "P" ▓▓▓

1. P/S Seven Seas
2. Pacific Princess
3. Pasteur 1966
4. Patra
5. Pendennis Castle
6. Persia
7. Peter Pan
8. Petrel
9. Pierre Loti
10. Pine Tree Mariner
11. Point Allegre
12. Port Melbourne
13. Port Sydney
14. President
15. Presidente Deodoro
16. Presidente Perón I
17. Princess Abeto
18. Princess of Acadia
19. Princess of Nova
20. Principe Perfeito
21. Prins Henrik af Danmark
22. Private William H. Thomas
23. Protea
24. Provence

▓▓▓ "Q" ▓▓▓

1. Queen Anna Maria
2. Queen Elizabeth 2

▓▓▓ "R" ▓▓▓

1. Raffaello
2. Randfontein
3. RasaSayang
4. Reina del Mar
5. Renaissance
6. Rhodesia Castle
7. Romanza
8. Rosa da Fonseca
9. Rossini
10. Rotterdam 1958
11. Royal Viking Sea
12. Royal Viking Sky
13. Royal Viking Star
14. Ru Yung
15. Ruahine 1950
16. Ryndam

▓▓▓ "S" ▓▓▓

1. 17 de Octubre I
2. S. A. Vaal
3. Sagafjord
4. Sakura
5. Sakura Maru
6. Samos Sky
7. San Lorenzo
8. Santa Magdalena
9. Santa Maria 1952
10. Santa Maria 1962
11. Santa Mariana
12. Santa Mercedes
13. Santa Paula
14. Santa Rosa
15. Sapporo Maru
16. Savannah
17. Saxonia 1953
18. Saxonsea
19. Sea Luck 1
20. Sea Venture
21. Shalom
22. Shin Sakura Maru
23. Shota Rustaveli
24. Skyward
25. Song of Norway
26. Southern Cross 1954
27. Southward
28. Spirit of London
29. Starward
30. Statendam 1956
31. Steel Artisan
32. Stefan Batory
33. Stella V
34. Stella Polaris
35. Stella Solaris
36. Stockholm 1946
37. Stolt Dagali
38. Suffren 1967
39. Sun Flower
40. Sun Flower 2
41. Sun Flower 5
42. Sun Flower 8
43. Sun Flower 11
44. Sun Princess
45. Sun Rise
46. Sun Viking
47. Svea Corona
48. Svea Star
49. Sylvania

▓▓▓ "T" ▓▓▓

1. Tahitien
2. Taras Shevshenko
3. Tassili
4. Therisos Express
5. Tor Britannia
6. Tor Scandinavia
7. Transvaal Castle

▓▓▓ "U" ▓▓▓

1. Uganda
2. Ulge
3. United States 1951
4. Universe Campus

▓▓▓ "V" ▓▓▓

1. Valchem
2. Varna
3. Vassar Victory
4. Veendam 1958
5. Vera Cruz
6. Verdi
7. Victoria 1951
8. Viet-Nam
9. Vistafjord
10. Volendam 1957

▓▓▓ "W" ▓▓▓

1. Waterman
2. Wellamo
3. Willem Barendsz
4. Windsor Castle 1959
5. Wirakel

▓▓▓ "Y" ▓▓▓

1. Yaohua
2. Yapeyu
3. YuHua
4. Yuozas Garyalis

▓▓▓ "Z" ▓▓▓

1. Zion

About the Author

Arnold Kludas, former technical engineer in a Hamburg shipyard and maritime adviser for a German publishing firm, is now working in the Deutsche Schiffahrtsmuseum, the equivalent of the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

His meticulous research in authenticating and continually updating the entries of all the ships has resulted in the published English language volumes being received with high acclaim and praise.

In the words of Sea Breezes, 'this is a series well worth the trouble of translation - an excellent service to ship lovers and maritime historians.

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