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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| ORIENTAL |
93210 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1888 |
05/12/1888 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger Liner
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Caird & Company, Greenock |
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248 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 5284 grt / 3085 nrt / |
410.5 ft |
48.0 ft |
34.3 ft |
26.0 ft |
| Engine builder |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (38, 59.5, 96 x 66in), 749nhp, 1-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock |
Greenock |
24/01/1889 |
| Other names |
| 1915 HONG KHENG - 1921 SONG HOI - 1923 TAI WAYFOONG |
| Subsequent owner and registration history |
1915 Ho Hong Steamship Co. Ltd. and renamed HONG KHENG.
1916 P. A. Lapique & Co., (George Grimble, manager), Haiphong & Hong Kong. Registered at Hong Kong.
1921 Renamed SONG HOI.
1923 G. T. M. Edkins of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp., Hong Kong.
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| Vessel history |
| Was accommodation ship for evacuees after the Yokohama earthquake in September 1923 and renamed TAI WAY FOONG. |
| Remarks |
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| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1924 |
Broken Up |
| Disposal Detail |
| Q2/1924 broken up in Japan |
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