Merchant Ship Types

Merchant Ship Types was a long running series of articles which appeared throughout Shipping Wonders of the World. These one-page articles included line drawings of the ship type with accompanying notes. Here is a complete list of the articles.

Merchant Ship Types

1. Sea-Going Train & Motor Car Ferry
2. Big Motor Cargo Liner
3. Large Home-Trade Coaster
4. Special Tropical Service Oil Tanker
5. Special Heavy-Weight Carrier  
6. Clyde Paddle Passenger Packet
7. British North Sea or Faeroe Islands Trawler
8. Passenger and Cargo Liner
9. Luxury Packet and Cruising Liner
10. River Plate Type Cross-Channel Ship
11. The Baltic Coastwise Tanker
12. The Australian Coastal Cargo Ship
13. The North Sea Passenger Mail and Cargo Packet
14. The Fishery Patrol Ship
15. A Southern Route Transatlantic Liner
16. A Modern Motor Yacht
17. A Special Service Train Ferry
18. Fast Cargo Packet for Short Sea Routes
19. A River Amazon Trade Cargo-Passenger Ship
20. A Mediterranean Passenger Ship
21. The Standard Motor Tramp
22. The Cable Ship
23. Japanese Inland Sea Passenger Ship
24. North Sea Single-Screw Coal Carrier
25. River Plate Cargo Ships
26. South African General & Refrigerated Cargo Carrier
27. Danish Standard Motor Tramp
28. Lubricating Oil Diesel Tanker
29. Japanese Bulk Cargo Carrier
30. Non Self-propelling Bow Well Bucket Dredger
31. Specialized Ore Carrier
32. Thames “Flat Iron” Collier
33. The South Sea Phosphate Carrier
34. Dutch East Indies Inter-Island Packet
35. Cargo Liner in Indian-American Trade
36. China River and Coast Ship
37. North Sea and Baltic Passenger and Cargo Ship
38. Day Service Cross-Channel Packet
39. A Portuguese-Owned Grand Banker
40. The Double-Ended Diesel-Electric Ferry