Ships Gallery
Achille Lauro
Launched: 1965
Rotterdamsche Lloyd/Lauro Line
Fate: Sank in Indian Ocean
Angelina Lauro
Launched: 1938
Flotta Lauro Lines
Fate: Sunk during tow to breakers
Anna Salen
Launched: 1939
Multiple (Moore-McCormack Line, Royal Navy, Sven Salen, Hellenic Mediterranean Lines, China Union Lines)
Fate: Destroyed by fire while being broken up, 1962
Arcadia
Launched: 1953
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Arosa Kulm
Launched: 1919
Multiple (US Shipping Board, American Merchant Line, Arosa Line)
Fate: Sold to Van Heyghen Freres for scrapping
Assimina
Launched: 1915
Deutsche Ost Afrika Linie (original)
Fate: Scrapped 1952
Asturias
Launched: 1925
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company
Fate: Scrapped
Athena
Launched: 2005
Arcadia Shipping Co Ltd
Fate: Operating as cruise ship (as of 2008/9)
Aurelia
Launched: 1938
Cogedar Line
Fate: Renamed Romanza
Australia
Launched: 1950
Lloyd Triestino
Fate: Scrapped (as Gaetano Donizetti)
Australis
Launched: 1939
Chandris Line
Fate: Wrecked off Greece
Awatea
Launched: 1936
Union Steam Ship Company
Fate: Lost to enemy action, 1942
Begona
Launched: 1945
Cia Trasatlantica
Fate: Scrapped at Castellon
Begona
Launched: 1945
Cia Trasatlantica
Fate: Broken up at Castellon
Beltana
Launched: 1912
P&O Steam Navigation Company (ex-Blue Anchor Line)
Fate: Scrapped in Japan, 1933
Benalla
Launched: 1912
P&O Line (formerly Blue Anchor Line)
Fate: Scrapped in Japan
Borinquen
Launched: 1930
New York and Porto Rico Steam Ship Co.
Fate: Wrecked as La Janelle
Britanis
Launched: 1931
Chandris Line
Fate: Retired
Burma
Launched: 1914
British & Burmese Steam Navigation Co
Fate: Scrapped as Safina-E-Nusrat
Cameronia
Launched: 1919
Anchor Line
Fate: Scrapped as Empire Clyde
Canberra
Launched: 1961
P&O
Fate: Scrapped at Gadani, Pakistan in October 1997.
Cantigny
Launched: 1919
US Shipping Board
Fate: Scrapped 1959
Castel Felice
Launched: 1930
Sitmar Line
Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan, 1970
Castel Verde
Launched: 1952
Sitmar Line/Spanish Line
Fate: Scrapped early 1970s
Cathay
Launched: 1957
P&O Eastern & Australian Line
Fate: Renamed Shanghai
Centaur
Launched: 1924
Ocean Steamship Company
Fate: Sunk by Japanese submarine I-177 in 1943
Ceramic
Launched: 1912
White Star-Shaw Savill/Shaw Savill & Albion
Fate: Sunk by U-515 in 1942
Cheshire
Launched: 1927
Bibby Line
Fate: Scrapped 1957
Chitral
Launched: 1955
Eastern & Australian Steam Navigation Co.
Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan
Chitral
Launched: 1925
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Fate: Scrapped 1953
Chusan
Launched: 1950
P&O
Fate: Unknown
City of Adelaide
Launched: 1864
Various
Fate: Preserved as museum ship
Commissaire Ramel
Launched: 1920
Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes
Fate: Sunk by German raider, WWII
Conte Grande
Launched: 1927
Lloyd Sabaudo Line/Italia Line/Lloyd Triestino
Fate: Scrapped 1961
Cyrenia
Launched: 1911
Union Steam Ship Company/Hellenic Mediterranean Lines
Fate: Scrapped in 1957
Dominion Monarch
Launched: 1938
Shaw Savill & Albion
Fate: Scrapped as Dominion Monarch Maru
Dorsetshire & Somersetshire
Launched: 1920
Bibby Line
Fate: Both scrapped 1954
Dundalk Bay
Launched: 1936
Irish Bay Line
Fate: Scrapped
Dunera & Devonia
Launched: 1937
British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
Duntroon
Launched: 1935
Melbourne Steamship Company Ltd
Fate: Broken up in Taiwan
Ellinis
Launched: 1932
Chandris Line
Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan
Empress of Australia
Launched: 1913
Canadian Pacific
Fate: Broken up, 1952
Empreza
Launched: 1865
Singlehurst and Co.
Esperance Bay
Launched: 1921
Australian Commonwealth Line/Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line
Fate: Renamed Arawa (3)
Esquilino
Launched: 1925
Lloyd Triestino
Fairsea
Launched: 1942
Sitmar Line
Fate: Scrapped at La Spezia, 1969
Fairsky
Launched: 1941
Sitmar Line
Fate: Broken up in Hong Kong, 1979
Fairstar
Launched: 1955
Sitmar Line
Fate: Scrapped in India as Ripa
Falie
Launched: 1919
Spencer Gulf Transport Company
Fate: Preserved (dry dock)
Fedor Shalyapin
Launched: 1954
Various (Cunard Line, Far Eastern Shipping Co.)
Fate: Unknown after 1980
Ferret
Launched: 1871
Mount Gambier Shipping Co. Ltd.
Fate: Wrecked near Cape Spencer, South Australia
Flaminia
Launched: 1921
Cogedar
Fate: Scrapped as King Abdelaziz
Flavia
Launched: 1946
Cogedar Line
Fate: Sold to C.Y. Tung and renamed Flavian
Galileo Galilei
Launched: 1963
Lloyd Triestino
Fate: Converted to Mediterranean cruise ship
General M.B. Stewart
Launched: 1944
US Navy/US Army/MSTS
Fate: Scrapped in 1987
General Robert L Howze
Launched: 1945
U.S. War Shipping Administration
Fate: Sold for commercial conversion
Georgic
Launched: 1932
White Star Line/Cunard White Star
Fate: Scrapped
Gothenburg
Launched: 1854
Unknown
Fate: Lost off Queensland coast, 1875
Gothic
Launched: 1947
Shaw, Savill & Albion
Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan
Goya
Launched: 1938
Woermann Line (original)
Fate: Scrapped as Melina
Groote Beer
Launched: 1944
Nederland Line
Fate: Scrapped 1967
Guglielmo Marconi
Launched: 1961
Lloyd Triestino Soc. Per Azioni
Fate: Retired 1975
Hellenic Prince
Launched: 1928
China Hellenic Lines Ltd.
Fate: Scrapped in 1954
Hesperus
Launched: 1873
Anderson, Anderson & Co (Orient Line)
Fate: Scrapped in Genoa
Himalaya
Launched: 1948
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan, 1974
HMAS Sydney
Launched: 1934
Royal Australian Navy
Fate: Lost in battle, November 19, 1941
HMAS Sydney
Launched: 1948
Royal Australian Navy
Fate: Scrapped 1975
HNLMS De Ruyter
Launched: 1936
Royal Netherlands Navy
Fate: Sunk in battle, 1942
Hobsons Bay
Launched: 1921
Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line
Fate: Scrapped at Faslane, 1955
Hydaspes
Launched: 1852
Shaw Savill
Fate: Sunk in collision, 1878
Iberia
Launched: 1954
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Fate: Scrapped at Kaohsiung, 1982
Indarra
Launched: 1912
Australasian United Steam Navigation Co
Fate: Sunk 1942, scrapped 1947
Jervis Bay
Launched: 1922
Australian Commonwealth Line
Fate: Sunk in battle, November 5, 1940
Johan de Witt
Unknown
Fate: Unknown
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Launched: 1929
Nederlandsche SB Mij
Fate: Sank as *Lakonia* in 1963
Joseph Conrad's Ships
Kampala
Launched: 1946
British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd
Fate: Scrapped 1971
Kanimbla
Launched: 1936
McIlwraith McEarchern
Fate: Broken up in Taiwan, 1973
Kanowna
Launched: 1903
Australasian United Steam Navigation Company
Fate: Sunk in Bass Strait, 1929
Karatta
Launched: 1907
Coast Steamships Ltd.
Fate: Scrapped 1962
Kooraka
Launched: 1925
Coast Steamships Ltd
Fate: Wrecked as Aldebaran
Lady Robinson
Launched: 1873
Various (Anton Schlink & W. Krause primary)
Fate: Hulked in Sydney 1910
Largs Bay
Launched: 1921
Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line
Fate: Scrapped 1957
Leonid Sobinov
Launched: 1954
Cunard Line/CTC Lines
Fate: Withdrawn 1979
Letitia
Launched: 1924
Donaldson Line
Fate: Scrapped as Captain Cook
Lorinna
Launched: 1938
Holyman's
Maasdam
Launched: 1952
Holland America Line
Fate: Sold to Polish Ocean Lines, renamed *Stefan Batory*
Maloja
Launched: 1923
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Fate: Scrapped at Inverkeithing, 1954
Manoora
Launched: 1935
Adelaide Steamship Co. Ltd
Fate: Sank as Ambulombo
Maori
Launched: 1906
Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand
Fate: Scrapped 1951
Marco Polo
Launched: 1961
Dominion Far East Line
Fate: Acquired by Greek Commercial Bank of Athens
Mauretania
Launched: 1938
Cunard Line
Fate: Broken up 1965
Minnipa
Launched: 1927
Adelaide Steamship Co., Ltd.
Fate: Broken up as Mayon
Mooltan
Launched: 1923
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Fate: Scrapped in Scotland
Moonta
Launched: 1931
Adelaide Steamship Company
Fate: Converted to floating nightclub/casino as Lydia
Moreton Bay
Launched: 1921
Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line
Fate: Scrapped 1957
Mulcra
Launched: 1925
Adelaide Steamship Company
Fate: Renamed Tasanee
MV Nelcebee
Launched: 1883
R. Fricker and Company
Fate: Preserved as museum vessel
Napoli
Launched: 1940
Flotta Lauro
Fate: Scrapped at La Spezia
Nea Hellas
Launched: 1922
Greek Line
Fate: Scrapped at Onomichi, Japan
Nemesis
Launched: 1880
Huddart Parker Pty Ltd
Neptunia
Launched: 1950
Lloyd Triestino
Fate: Scrapped after service as Gaetano Donizetti
New Australia
Launched: 1931
British Ministry of Transport/Shaw, Savill and Albion
Fate: Scrapped in Spain
Northern Star
Launched: 1961
Shaw Savill & Albion
Fate: Scrapped in Taiwan
Ocean Monarch
Launched: 1956
Shaw Savill & Albion Line
Fate: Scrapped at Kaohsiung, 1975
Oceania
Launched: 1950
Lloyd Triestino
Fate: Laid up at Genoa, 1976
Odalisk
Launched: 1866
Jones and Company
Fate: Demolished in Port River
Oosterschelde
Launched: 1917
Oranje
Launched: 1938
Netherlandsche Scheepsbouw Maatschappij
Fate: Converted to round-world cruise service
Orcades
Launched: 1947
Orient Steam Navigation Ltd
Fate: Scrapped (Kaohsiung)
Oriana
Launched: 1994
P&O Cruises
Fate: Still in service
Oriana
Launched: 1959
Orient Steam Navigation Company/P&O
Fate: Converted to cruise ship
Oriana
Launched: 1864
Built by Scott & Co., Greenock for Wm Orr, Greenock & Walter Guthrie
Fate: 1909 condemned and broken up
Orion
Launched: 1934
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Fate: Scrapped at Tamise, Belgium
Ormonde
Launched: 1917
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Fate: Scrapped 1952
Ormuz
Launched: 1914
Orient Steam Navigation Company/Norddeutscher Lloyd
Fate: Wrecked as Dresden, 1934
Orontes
Launched: 1929
Orient Steam Navigation
Fate: Scrapped 1962
Orsova
Launched: 1953
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Fate: Sold for breaking, 1973
Orvieto
Launched: 1909
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Fate: Offered for sale for scrap, 1930
Otranto
Launched: 1925
Orient Steam Navigation Company
Fate: Scrapped in 1957
Otranto
Launched: 1909
Orient Line
Fate: Lost (collision/grounding), 1918
Oxfordshire
Launched: 1912
Bibby Line
Fate: Broken up as Safina-e-Arab
Pamir
Launched: 1905
Finnish ownership
Partizanca
Launched: 1927
Jogoslavenska Linijska Plovidba
Fate: Destroyed by fire, 1950
Passat
Launched: 1911
Patris
Launched: 1959
Chandris Line (Greek Australia Line S.A.)
Fate: Mediterranean Island
Pericles
Launched: 1908
Aberdeen Line
Fate: Wrecked 1910
Port Adelaide Institute and Customs House
Launched: 1874
Australian Customs Service
Fate: Still standing, repurposed for modern use
Queen Elizabeth II
Launched: 1968
Cunard Line
Fate: Retired as floating hotel in Dubai
Queen Mary
Launched: 1934
Cunard Line
Fate: Preserved as museum ship in Long Beach, California
Ranchi
Launched: 1925
Peninsular & Oriental Line
Fate: Scrapped in Wales
Rangatira
Launched: 1931
Union Line
Ravello
Launched: 1941
Flotta Lauro
Fate: Scrapped at La Spezia
Red Jacket
Launched: 1853
Fate: Coal hulk in Cape Verde
Reina del Mar
Launched: 1955
Pacific Steam Navigation Co
Fate: Scrapped 1975
Reina del Pacifico
Launched: 1930
Pacific Steam Navigation Co.
Fate: Scrapped 1958
RMS Strathmore
Launched: 1935
Peninsular & Oriental Line (P&O)
Fate: Scrapped at La Spezia, 1969
Roma
Launched: 1942
Flotta Lauro
Fate: Scrapped 1966
Romolo
Launched: 1926
Lloyd Triestino
Fate: Scuttled, 1940
Saga Rose
Launched: 1965
Saga Cruises
Fate: Operating as of 2001
Sibajak
Launched: 1927
Rotterdamche Lloyd
Fate: Scrapped in Hong Kong
Skaubryn
Launched: 1951
Skaugen Line
Fate: Sunk in Indian Ocean, 1958
Skaugum
Launched: 1940
Hamburg America Line
Fate: Scrapped 1972
Soren Larsen
Launched: 1949
Various
Southern Cross
Launched: 1954
Shaw Savill & Albion
Fate: Azure Seas
SS Lurline
Matson Line
Fate: Renamed Ellenis
Statendam
Holland-America Line
Fate: Destroyed by fire, May 1940
Strathaird
Launched: 1931
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Fate: Demolished in Hong Kong
Stratheden
Launched: 1937
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Fate: Scrapped as Henrietta Latsis
Strathnaver
Launched: 1931
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)
Fate: Scrapped in Hong Kong
Surriento
Launched: 1927
Flotta Lauro
Fate: Scrapped 1966
Svalbard
Launched: 1938
Woermann Line
Fate: Lost as Topeka (1984)
Sydney
Launched: 1942
Flotta Lauro
Fate: Lady Dina (scrapped 1975)
Themistocles
Launched: 1910
Shaw, Savill & Albion
Fate: Scrapped, 1948
Volendam
Launched: 1922
Holland America Line
Fate: Scrapped in Netherlands
Wahine
Launched: 1965
Union Steamship Company New Zealand
Fate: Wrecked 1968
Wahine
Launched: 1913
Union Steamship Company of New Zealand
Fate: Wrecked, 1951
Wanganella
Launched: 1929
Huddart Parker Ltd
Warrawee
Launched: 1909
Coast Steamship Company Ltd/Adelaide Steamship Company
Fate: Broken up 1955
Warwick Castle
Launched: 1930
Union-Castle Line
Fate: Sunk by U-boat in 1944
Waterman
Launched: 1945
Royal Rotterdam Lloyd
Fate: Scrapped as Margareta
Westralia
Launched: 1929
Huddart Parker & Co
Fate: Broken up as Woollambi in 1962
Willem Ruys
Launched: 1947
Royal Rotterdam Lloyd
Fate: Sold and renamed Achille Lauro
Wookata
Launched: 1909
West Coast Shipping Co Ltd
Fate: Scrapped
Zuiderkruis
Launched: 1944
Nederland Line
Fate: Scrapped 1969