1950 Cruise Ship Which Burnt In Hongkong

This page is one of a series devoted to postcards and photographs of the New Zealand Shipping Company NZSC.

1950 cruise ship which burnt in hongkong. As well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada USA Australia and even some for South Africa. With Queen Mary she provided weekly luxury liner service between Southampton in the United Kingdom and New York City in the United States via Cherbourg in France. The ship was completely destroyed by the fire and the water sprayed on her by fireboats caused the burnt wreck to sink in Hong Kongs Victoria Harbour.

The badly damaged ship now beached and burnt out was salvaged in October 1941 and sent to Port Sudan where temporary repairs were carried out. Ocean liner Queen Elizabeth sinks in Hong Kong harbour. The RMS Aquitania a British ocean liner of Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950.

Did the Queen Mary ship sink. Take a 38-Day Cruise to Trinidad Rio Santos Sao Paulo Montevideo and Buenos Aires for old world enchantment and cities as modern as tomorrow. This service continued successfully until 14 July 1941 when near Port Tewfik Georgic was bombed by the Luftwaffe.

TheShipsList website online since August 1999 will help you find your ancestors on ships passenger listsWe also have immigration reports newspaper records shipwreck information ship pictures ship descriptions shipping-line fleet lists and more. This is a mandatory criterion. Over forty years ago in 1972 the worlds largest liner the RMS QUEEN ELIZABETH was lying on her side in Hong Kong harbour a burnt-out hulk.

An alphabetical list of ships shown on this page is shown below. She was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown Company in Clydebank Scotland and launched on 21 April 1913 making her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York on 30 May 1914. The vessel was finally declared a shipping hazard and dismantled for scrap between 1974 and 1975.

This is the story of the ship from the planning stages of the late 1920s her war operations her amazingly successful passenger service of the late 1940s and 1950s and her demise in the mid 1960s. 1930 MV Monte Rosa 1930-1947 Caught fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea with the loss of four crew March 30 1954 RMS Empress of Australia 1919 1913. Thanks for stopping by friends.