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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| SINKIANG |
136790 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1915 |
21/12/1914 |
16/02/1915 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo
| Steel Screw Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock |
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461 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 2646 grt / 1616 nrt / |
310.2 ft |
41.2 ft |
22.4 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Scotts' Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd., Greenock |
| Engine detail |
| T3cyl (22",35",56"x39"), 162/196nhp 1400ihp 11kn, 1-screw |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| China Navigation Co. Ltd., London |
London |
19/02/1915 |
| Other names |
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| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
| Passengers: 6 x 1st, 28 x 2nd, 64 x 3rd |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1942 |
Bombed 06/04/1942 |
| Disposal Detail |
| On a voyage from Calcutta to Colombo, bombed and sunk in the Bay of Bengal, 17.32N - 82.50E by Japanese aircraft operating from Burma. Three officers and a number of the crew died. |
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Sinkiang
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Sinkiang
Image courtesy of : Wikiswire.
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Sinkiang
Image courtesy of : Duncan Haws
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