SS Somali
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History | |
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Name | SS Somali |
Owner | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock |
Builder | Caird & Company, Greenock |
Yard number | 298 |
Launched | 17 May 1901 |
Completed | 17 Jun 1901 |
In service | 1901 |
Out of service | 1923 |
Fate | scrapped 1924 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger / Cargo |
Tonnage | 6,780 tons |
Length | 450.3 ft (137.25m) |
Beam | 52.4 ft (15.97m) |
Depth | 30.5 ft (9.30m) |
Propulsion | twin screw |
Speed | 14 knots (25.93 km/h) |
Contents
Remarks
Owner was the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
Scrapped in 1923.
Soldiers carried
Malta to England 20 - 27 August 1915
England to Fremantle 26 December 1918 - 21 January 1919
- William Grenfell embarked 10 December
- Harold Stinton
- John James Thorpe
Southampton to Fremantle 1 June - 8 July 1919
Boarded 1 June, sailed 5 June 1919
- John Murray Nursing Staff
- Alfred Ernest Andrews
- James Arnold
- Edward Bailey
- Charles Bird
- Percy James Blake
- Cecil Walter Challis
- Walter Eugene Cockram
- William Edwin Cousens MM
- Thomas Hughie Culbertson
- Patrick (John) Curo
- Charles Henry Dohnt
- Reginald Samuel Roquerbre Dutton
- Claude Eustace Herbert Evans
- Joseph Charles Joshua Farnell
- Patrick Francis Fitzgerald
- Percy Fleming
- Harry Simpson Francis
- Walter Gaymer
- Arthur Charles Grafham
- Leslie Jeffery Harvey
- Robert Sang Herd
- Jason Howard
- Charles Kelly
- William Isaac Little
- Daniel Adkins Lewis
- Thomas Edward Tyrell Marshall Post WW1 men
- Harold Percival Martin
- Lewis George Martin
- Thomas Frederick McDonough
- Thomas McGow
- James Lawrence McKenna
- Charles Robert Merchant
- Albert Tom Milton
- Charles John Mitchell
- William George Munday
- John Murray Nursing Staff
- Gustaf Adolf Olson
- William Augustus Povah
- Isaac Robert Powell
- Richard Edgar Riley
- Alfred Martin Tilly