List of ships and submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness/Civilian ships
Name |
Class |
Built For |
Laid down |
Launched |
Fate |
Image |
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17 de Octobre 1 |
Passenger Cargo Ship |
Argentine Government |
1949 |
4 April 1950 |
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Accra 2 |
Passenger Cargo Ship |
Elder Dempster |
Late 1945 |
24 February 1947 |
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Apapa 3 |
Passenger Cargo Ship |
Elder Dempster |
December 1945 |
1948 |
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Affonso Penna 4 |
Floating dock |
Brazilian Government |
1909 |
7,8 & 9 June 1910 |
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Anglia 5 |
Cable Ship |
Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company |
Late 1890s |
20 June 1898 |
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Awatea 6 |
Passenger liner |
Union Steamship Company of New Zealand |
1935 |
1936 |
Attacked near Bougie, by German bombers and sank during the night (1942) |
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HMS Ben-my-Chree |
Passenger Ferry / |
Isle of Man Steam Packet |
1907 |
23 March 1908 |
Sunk on 11 January 1917 by shore-based Turkish artillery fire |
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British Admiral 7 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
1963 |
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British Adventure 8 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
1949 |
12 December 1950 |
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British Ambassador 9 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
July 1957 |
16 August 1958 |
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British Faith 10 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
1956 |
10 December 1957 |
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British Glory 11 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
3 April 1956 |
1957 |
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British Grenadier 12 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
August 1961 |
16 August 1962 |
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British Prestige 13 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
23 October 1958 |
28 July 1961 |
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British Sovereign 14 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
27 March 1953 |
31 August 1954 |
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British Victory 15 |
Oil tanker |
BP |
August 1953 |
1955 |
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Carl Schmedeman 16 |
Cargo ship |
Tropical Steamship Company, Toronto |
1 June 1951 |
12 May 1952 |
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Duke of Connaught 17 |
Floating dock |
Canadian Vickers, Montreal |
1912 |
1912 |
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Esso Canterbury 18 |
Oil tanker |
Esso |
30 May 1952 |
24 September 1953 |
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Esso Westminster 19 |
Oil tanker |
Esso |
29 February 1952 |
24 September 1953 |
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Estrella Patagonica / |
Oil tanker |
Shell Compania Argentina de Petroleo SA |
1962 |
Scrapped Bombay in 1989 |
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Eugenia Niarchos 21 |
Oil tanker |
Niarchos Group (Neptune Tanker Corporation) |
May 1955 |
1956 |
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Eva Peron 22 |
Passenger Cargo Ship |
Argentine Government |
1 December 1947 |
25 August 1949 |
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Presidente Peron 23 |
Passenger Cargo Ship |
Argentine Government |
3 November 1948 |
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HMS Exmouth / |
School ship |
Metropolitan Asylums Board |
4 April 1905 |
Accommodation for the Royal Navy at Scapa Flow |
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Ficus / |
Oil tanker |
Shell Tankers U.K. |
1942 |
Scrapped in 1960 |
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Fenella 26 |
Passenger steamer |
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company |
May 1936 |
1937 |
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Geraldine Mary 27 |
Cargo ship |
Anglo-Newfoundland Shipping Company |
19 August 1924 |
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HMCS Earl Grey 28 |
Ice breaker |
Canadian Government |
June 1909 |
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Hindsia 29 |
Oil tanker |
Shell Bermuda |
May 1954 |
1955 |
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San Gregorio / |
Oil tanker |
Eagle Tanker Company |
July 1956 |
1957 |
Scrapped in 1975 |
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Hinea 31 |
Oil tanker |
Shell |
1956 |
Scrapped in 1976 |
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Hinnites 32 |
Oil tanker |
Shell |
1956 |
Scrapped in 1975 |
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Marinula / |
Oil tanker |
Shell |
1916 |
Scrapped Newport in 1951 |
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Serenia 34 |
Oil tanker |
Shell |
1961 |
Scrapped in 1987 |
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Hinemoa 35 |
Passenger Cargo Ship |
Union Steamship Company of New Zealand |
1945 |
30 May 1946 |
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Hobson's Bay 36 |
Passenger liner |
Australian Commonwealth Government Line |
4 October 1921 |
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JH Hunter |
Sludge vessel |
London County Council |
2 October 1924 |
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Newfoundland 37 |
Passenger cargo ship |
Warren Line |
24 January 1925 |
Converted to Hospital ship in 1940, bombed and sunk off Salerno in 1943 with the loss of 38 lives |
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Nova Scotia 38 |
Passenger cargo ship |
Warren Line |
1926 |
Converted to troopship in 1941, torpedoed and sunk in the Indian Ocean SE of Lourenco Marques in 1942, while carrying Italian prisoners 858 lives were lost |
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Humilaria / |
Oil tanker |
Shell UK / |
1958 |
Scrapped in 1973 |
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Kennerleya / |
Oil tanker |
Shell UK |
1941 |
Scrapped in 1960 |
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Milo / |
Oil tanker |
Nederlands Indische Tank Stoomboot Mij. (NIT) |
1944 |
Scrapped in 1958 |
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Methane Princess |
LNG carrier |
British Gas |
Scrapped in 1998 |
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Kedah 42 |
Passenger cargo ship |
Straits Steamship Company, Singapore |
1926 |
16 July 1927 |
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Lady of Mann 43 |
Passenger steamer |
Isle of Man Steam Packet Company |
4 March 1930 |
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Narragansett 44 |
Oil tanker |
Anglo-American Oil Company |
1919 |
1920 |
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Cargo ship |
New Zealand Shipping Company |
1929 |
26 August 1930 |
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Monarch of Bermuda 45 |
Passenger liner |
Furness Whithy |
Started construction in Walker-on-Tyne |
17 March 1931 |
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Queen of Bermuda 46 |
Passenger liner |
Furness Whithy |
Started construction in Walker-on-Tyne |
1 September 1932 |
sold for scrap in 1966 |
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Modavia 47 |
Cargo ship |
Donaldson Line |
1925 |
23 September 1926 |
Torpedoed and sunk by E-boat in Lyme Bay in 1943 |
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Moreton Bay 48 |
Cargo ship |
Donaldson Line |
1921 |
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Moveria 49 |
Cargo ship |
Donaldson Line |
10 October 1924 |
Broken up in 1952 |
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Rangatira 50 |
Passenger liner |
Union Steamship Company of New Zealand |
16 April 1931 |
Scrapped in 1967 |
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RMS Antonia |
Passenger liner |
Cunard Steamship Company |
Early 1920s |
1921 |
Scrapped in 1948 |
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RMS Carinthia 51 |
Passenger liner |
Cunard Steamship Company |
1924 |
24 February 1925 |
Sunk by a U-boat off the coast of Ireland in 1940 |
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RMS Orama 52 |
Passenger liner |
Orient Steam Navigation Company |
1923 |
20 May 1924 |
Converted to troopship in 1940, sunk west of Narvik in June 1940, 19 crew were lost and 280 were taken prisoner |
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RMS Orcades 53 |
Passenger liner |
Orient Steam Navigation Company |
14 October 1947 |
Broken up in Kaohsiung in 1973 after being gutted by a fire in Hong Kong in 1972 |
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RMS/HMS Orford 54 |
Passenger liner |
Orient Steam Navigation Company |
27 September 1927 |
Converted to troopship in 1939, bombed and beached at Marseilles in 1940 while evacuating troops from France, refloated and scrapped in 1947 |
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RMS Orion 55 |
Passenger liner |
Orient Steam Navigation Company |
7 February 1934 |
Converted to troopship in 1941, damaged in collision with HMS Revenge but repaired. Scrapped in Belgium 1963 |
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RMS Oronsay 56 |
Passenger liner |
Orient Steam Navigation Company |
1949 |
30 June 1950 |
Transferred to P&O Line ownership in 1963, scrapped in Taiwan in 1975 |
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Orizaba 57 |
Passenger liner |
Pacific Steam Navigation Company |
1886 |
Ran aground and wrecked off Sydney in 1905 |
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Oroya 58 |
Passenger liner |
Pacific Steam Navigation Company |
31 August 1886 |
Ran aground in the Bay of Naples in 1895 - severely damaged but repaired - Transferred to Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and scrapped in Genoa in 1909 |
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Orotava 59 |
Passenger liner |
Pacific Steam Navigation Company |
1889 |
Sunk in 1896 but raised and reconditioned. Transferred to many other companies and eventually scrapped in 1919 |
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Oruba / |
Passenger liner |
Pacific Steam Navigation Company |
Purchased by the British Admiralty in 1914 and rebuilt to represent the battleship, HMS Orion, she was scuttled at Mudros Harbour, Lemnos Island, Greece as a breakwater in 1915 |
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Ortona / |
Passenger liner |
Orient Line – Pacific Steam Navigation Company |
1899 |
Torpedoed in the Eastern Mediterranean while en-route from Salonika to Alexandria with troops (as a troopship) - 279 lives were lost |
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Otranto 62 |
Passenger liner |
Pacific Steam Navigation Company |
9 June 1925 |
Scrapped at Faslane, Scotland in 1957 |
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RMS Scythia |
Passenger liner |
Cunard Steamship Company |
1919 |
23 March 1920 |
Scrapped in 1958 |
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Rebeca 63 |
Oil tanker |
Antilles Curacaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij |
1938 |
Scrapped in 1954 |
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Rosalia 64 |
Oil tanker |
Antilles Curacaosche Scheepvaart Maatschappij |
1938 |
Sunk in 1943 |
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San Calisto / |
Oil tanker |
Eagle Oil / |
1959 |
Scrapped in 1975 |
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San Patricio / |
Oil tanker |
Shell Compania Argentina de Petroleo SA / |
1955 |
Scrapped in 1986 |
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San Conrado / |
Oil tanker |
Eagle Oil / |
1960 |
Scrapped in 1975 |
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SS Himalaya |
Steamship / |
Steamship route (Tilbury - Mumbai - Australia) / |
5 October 1948 |
Broken up in 1974 in Taiwan |
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SS Chusan 68 |
Passenger liner |
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company |
1947 |
28 June 1949 |
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SS Mayon 69 |
Passenger cargo ship |
Philippine Steamship Company |
26 June 1930 |
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SS Orsova 70 |
Passenger liner |
Orient Steam Navigation Company |
1952 |
14 May 1953 |
Transferred to P&O Line ownership in 1965, scrapped in 1974 |
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SS Kurtuluş |
Cargo ship |
Cargo ship (also transported food in the great famine of Greece |
1883 |
Ran aground and sunk near Marmara Island |
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SS Oriana |
Ocean liner |
Orient Steam Navigation Company |
18 September 1956 |
3 November 1959 |
Broken up for scrap 2005 |
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