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- The
UK Passenger Ship Fleet of 1967
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7: Fleets N-O
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- This is the
seventh in a series of ten pages devoted to postcards of the
complete UK Passenger Fleet of 1967. It is based on the fleet
lists of Colin Worker's book The World's Passenger Ships,
published by Ian Allen in that year. 1967 was the the end of
an era for British passenger ships, since it was the last year
that the famous Cunard Queens sailed together across the Atlantic.
In 1967, there was still a substantial fleet of British ocean
liners and cross-channel packets, and the purpose-built cruise
ships and multi-purpose car ferries that would change the shape
of passenger shipping were largely still to come. The availability
of such an excellent work of reference, plus the interest of
the year, makes it a most suitable one to survey. I have relied
on Colin Worker's book for selecting the ships to include, thereby
omitting many vessels under 1000 gross tons.
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- 1967 UK Passenger Fleet
Pages:-
- Letters:-
A-Bl, Br-Bu, Ca-Cu, D-G, Isle, M, N-O, P-R, S-T, U-W
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- Companies on this Page:-
- New
Zealand Shipping Co
- Normandy
Ferries
- North
of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Shipping Co
- North
Sea Ferries
- Orient
Overseas Line (Hong Kong)
- Orkney
Islands Shipping Co
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- Associated Pages:-
- New Zealand
Shipping Co
- Normandy
Ferries
- North
of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Shipping Co
- North
Sea Ferries
- Ferry
Postcards
- Cruise
Ship Postcards
- Ocean
Liner Postcards
- Simplon Postcards Home Page
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- New Zealand Shipping Co
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is a complete history of the North Company on this link.
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- Rangitane
(1949) & Rangitoto (1949)
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- London-Curacao-Panama-Papeete-Wellington-Auckland
service.
- 21800
tons, 609 ft long, 460 passengers.
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- Rangitane was sold for breaking
up in 1968, but was then purchased by C.Y.Tung and renamed Oriental
Esmeralda. She was used on a Round the World cargo/passenger
service operated by Tung's Orient Overseas Line until 1976, when
she was broken up. Rangitoto was sold direct to C.Y.Tung
in 1969 and renamed Oriental Carnival. She was broken
up in 1976. Orient Overseas Line issued a card of Oriental Rio, which covered all three
ex-New Zealand Shipping Co ships.
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- Official
New Zealand Shipping Co postcard of Rangitane, in original
livery.
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- J.Arthur
Dixon postcard SS.1766 of Rangitane, in original livery.
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- J.Arthur
Dixon postcard SS.6543 of Rangitane, in the Federal Line
colours applied 1965.
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- Ruahine
(1951)
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- London-Curacao-Panama-Papeete-Wellington-Auckland
service.
- 17851
tons, 584 ft long, 310 passengers.
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- Ruahine was a slightly smaller
version of Rangitane and Rangitoto, carrying a
third less passengers. Like her sisters she was sold to C.Y.Tung
in 1969, and was the first to be broken up in 1973.
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- Official
New Zealand Shipping Co postcard of Ruahine, in original
livery.
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- J.Arthur
Dixon postcard SS.2628 of Ruahine, in original livery.
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- Official
New Zealand Shipping Co postcard of Ruahine in Federal
colours, which she received in 1965.
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- Orient Overseas Line (Hong Kong)
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- Oriental
Rio (1969-73)
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- Ruahine, Rangitane and
Rangitoto, were all sold to C.Y.Tung in 1969, and were
used on a short-lived Round the World cargo/passenger service
operated by C.Y.Tung's Orient Overseas Line. They were renamed
Oriental Rio, Oriental Esmeralda and Oriental
Carnival. Oriental Rio was the first to be broken up in 1973.
The other two followed in 1976.
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- This
official card of Oriental Rio was issued to cover all
three ships, plus the Oriental Amiga.
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- A
postcard of Oriental Esmeralda.
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- North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland
Shipping Co
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is a complete history of the North Company on this link.
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- Earl
of Zetland (1939)
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- Lerwick
(Shetland) to North Isles services.
- 548
tons, 166 ft long.
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- Officiad
(Belmont Series) postcard of Earl of Zetland.
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- St
Clair (1960)
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- Aberdeen
to Lerwick (Shetland) services.
- 3303
tons, 296 ft long, 314 passengers (plus 200 deck).
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- Official
postcard (Belmont Series) of St Clair.
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- White
Heather (Aberdeen) postcard 7008 of St Clair at Lerwick.
Photo G.Young.
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- 'Hail
Caledonia' (Whiteholme of Dundee) postcard 20.000 of St Clair
at Lerwick.
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- An
interesting Royal Navy postcard of the submarine HMS Finwhale,
with St Clair in the background.
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- St
Clement (1946)
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- Scrabster
to Stromness (Orkney) cargo services.
- 815
tons, 188 ft long.
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- Colourmaster
postcard PT36998 of St Clair at Scrabster.
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- St
Magnus II (1937)
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- Leith
and Edinburgh to Stromness (Orkney) and Lerwick (Shetland) services.
- 1641
tons, 266 ft long, 174 passengers (plus 206 deck).
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- Official
postcard (Belmont Series) as St Clair (renamed on delivery
of the 1960 ship).
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- E.Sinclair
postcard as St Clair (renamed on delivery of the 1960
ship).
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- Unidentified
postcard serial PN5334 as St Magnus.
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- St
Ninian (1950)
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- Leith
and Edinburgh to Stromness (Orkney) and Lerwick (Shetland) services.
- 2244
tons, 285 ft long, 272 passengers (plus 344 deck).
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- Official
postcard (Belmont Series) of St Ninian.
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- Unidentified
postcard (photo A.M.S.Hughton) of St Ninian arriving Lerwick.
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- Valentine's
postcard B.6226 of St Ninian at Lerwick.
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- G.Cornwell
postcard of St Ninian at Lerwick.
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- Two
Shetland Times postcards of St Ninian.
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- Unidentified
postcard of St Ninian.
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- St
Ola (1951)
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- Scrabster
to Stromness (Orkney) service.
- 750
tons, 178 ft long, 359 passengers.
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- Official
postcard (Belmont Series) of St Ola.
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- Unidentified
postcard (photo J.Adams) of St Ola.
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- Colourmaster
postcard PT36997 of St Ola at Scrabster.
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- St
Rognvald (1955)
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- Leith
and Edinburgh to Stromness (Orkney) and Lerwick (Shetland) services.
- 1024
tons, 244 ft long, 12 passengers .
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- Official
postcard (Belmont Series) of St Rognvald.
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- Simplon
Postcards issue 3.4 of St Rognvald.
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of this card are available from Simplon Postcards at 60p each.
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- Normandy Ferries
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- Dragon
(1967)
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- Southampton-le
Havre & Rosslare-le Havre services.
- 6100
tons, 416 ft long, 850 passengers (plus 250 cars).
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- Normandy
Ferries was a joint Anglo-French company, of which the British
half was effectively the General Steam Navigation. I have included the
French-flag Leopard for completeness. There
is also a dedicated web page devoted to Normandy Ferries, showing the later P&O
history of Dragon.
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- J.Arthur
Dixon postcard SS.6866B (sold on board) of Dragon, showing
the original colour scheme. The ships subsequently carried various
P&O and Townsend-Thoresen colour schemes which will covered
on dedicated pages.
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- Salmon
postcard 1-58-03-13/5972 of Dragon.
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- Editions
Yvon postcard 10/1706 of Dragon.
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- A
later Editions Yvon postcard, 10/10458 of Dragon. Note
the raised level of the boot-topping and lack of painted bow
emblem compared to the cards above.