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| Launched 1905: ss DONGOLA |
ss DONGOLA
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ss DONGOLA
built by Barclay Curle & Company Glasgow,
Yard No 455 Engines by Shipbuilders
Port of Registry: Glasgow
Propulsion: Two quadruple expansion four cylinder steam engines, 8000ihp, twin screws, 15.5 knots.
Launched: Thursday, 14/09/1905
Built: 1905
Ship Type: Passenger Liner
Ship's Role: UK/India and Far East mail services, and trooping
Tonnage: 8038 gross; 4723 net; 8165 dwt
Length: 470ft 0in
Breadth: 56ft 3in
Draught: 27ft 8in
Owner History:
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Status: Sold for Scrapping - 23/06/1926
Remarks:
14/09/1905: Launched for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London.
10/11/1905: Registered.
15/11/1905: Delivered. She cost £160,167. As built she could carry 150 First Class and 100 Second Class passengers.
1905: On her maiden voyage she carried Prince Arthur of Connaught and
his suite to Colombo en route to conferring the Order of the Garter
on the Emperor of Japan.
1906: Taken up for seasonal trooping charter, which was repeated every
year until 1914, apart from 1911.
1907: Made a record Southampton/Bombay journey in 18 days, 7 hours.
1911: Present at King George V’s Coronation Navy Review carrying guests
of the Admiralty.
1911: Indian famine relief duties.
1914: On trooping charter when war declared.
1915: Requisitioned. She operated as a makeshift hospital ship at the
Dardanelles and later as transport, largely off the coast of East
Africa.
05/03/1915: Collided at 0.17 am in the Bristol Channel with the anchored Belgian
steamer ESPAGNE, having sailed from Avonmouth at 10.47 pm the
previous evening. Holed below the waterline forward on the
starboard side and beached west of Barry for the leak to be
temporarily stopped. Refloated on a rising tide at 4.48 am and
winched into Barry Dock 3 hours later.
17/03/1915: Left Barry after repairs.
1919: After the Armistice she repatriated deported Russians to Reval, and
brought back refugees, before being refitted.
10/1920: First postwar commercial voyage London/Bombay.
1922: Serious collision with the Japanese vessel KUMANA MARU, which was
blamed for the incident.
01/09/1923: Assisted in relief work at the Yokohama earthquake. After the shock
and ensuing fire, took aboard some 430 refugees of all nationalities.
03/09/1923: Sailed for Kobe with about 700 aboard. Four refugees who died
onboard were buried at sea. Captain R H Griffith was decorated by
the Japanese Government for the leading part he took in the rescue.
1924: On the Aden/Bombay “ferry” service.
1925: One round voyage UK/Australia.
28/06/1926: Sold for £15,500 to T W Ward Ltd for demolition at Barrow.
Previous update by Paul Strathdee.
Photo supplied by John Newth
Previous update by John Newth
Last updated: by George Robinson from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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