List of ships with the name Belvedere
Belvedere has been used several times as the name of ships or is used as such. The name comes from Italian and literally means "beautiful view". It is originally a term in architectural history that describes a building or part of a building that is designed to allow a beautiful and wide view, used here in the sense of the beautiful view from a ship.
Ship list
designation | Ship type | Class / type | Construction year | Shipyard | Owner | period of service | Whereabouts | image |
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Belvedere | Whaling ship | Auxiliary sailors | ||||||
Belvedere | Sewage sludge transporter | Steamship | 1892 | Naval Con. & Poor. Company, Barrow | London County Council | |||
Belvedere | Combined ship | Steamship | 1913 | Cantiere Naval Tricantino, Monfalcone | Cosulich Line, Trieste | 1913-1944 | sunk as a blockade ship Audacious | |
Belvedere | Cargo ship | Steamship | 1922 | Harkess & Son, Ltd, Middlesbrough | O. Dorey & Sons Ltd, Guernsey | 1927 to 1940 | struck mine on December 17, 1940 on a trip from London to the Tyne with cement off Southend and sank | |
Belvedere | General cargo ship | 1934 | Burntisland Shipbuilding Company, Burntisland | 1957-1960 | Scrapped in Nieuw Lekkerkerk in 1960 | |||
Belvedere | Motor ship | 1953 | Moon Shipyard, Norfolk | CG Willis, Wilmington | ||||
Belvedere | General cargo ship | 1954 | John Lewis and Sons, Aberdeen | 1961-1965 | Scrapped as Kaisis I in Limassol in 1980 | |||
Belvedere | Day trip boat | Type III extended variant | 1986 | Yacht shipyard Berlin-Köpenick, | BWSG Berlin Water Sports and Service GmbH Berlin-Koepenick | in motion | ||
Belvedere | Day trip boat | 2003 | Stern and Kreisschiffahrt Berlin | in motion | ||||
Belvedere | Cabin passenger ship | 2005 | Nobiskrug, Rendsburg | Premicon AG in Munich / Transocean | in motion | |||
Belvedere | Day trip boat | 2006 | Schiffswerft Bolle GmbH Neudorben / Saxony-Anhalt | Weisse Flotte Potsdam | in motion |
See also
Web links
Commons : Ships named Belvedere - collection of images, videos and audio files
Footnotes
- ↑ whaler Belvedere (English). Retrieved on February 8, 2016
- ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1925/26
- ↑ cargo ship Belvedere (English). Retrieved on February 8th, 2016
- ↑ cargo ship Belvedere (English). Retrieved on February 8th, 2016
- ↑ Entry at swanseadocks (English) accessed on February 8, 2016
- ^ Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1958/59
- ↑ Entry at aberdeenships (English) accessed on February 8, 2016
- ↑ The Belvedere of BWSG Retrieved on February 8, 2016
- ^ The Belvedere of the Berliner Stern und Kreisschiffahrt, accessed on February 8, 2016