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SS Cheshire

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SS Cheshire
SS Cheshire.jpg
AWM Photo 123738
History
Name SS Cheshire
Owner Bibby S.S. Co. Ltd. - Bibby Bros. & Co., Liverpool
Builder Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan
Yard number 620
Launched 20 Apr 1927
Completed July 1927
In service 1927
Out of service 1957
Fate broken up 11 Jul 1957 in Newport
General characteristics
Type Passenger/Cargo
Tonnage 10,552 tons
Length 483.6 ft (147.4m)
Beam 60.3 ft (18.38m)
Depth 31.8 ft (9.69m)
Propulsion Twin Screw



Remarks

Used by the Bibby Line on the Far East service . Requisitioned by the Admiralty in September 1939 to act as an Armed merchant Cruiser until July 1943 after which she was used as a troopship.


SS Cheshire carried the last group of Ex Prisoners of war to return from Singapore, arriving in Sydney on 23 Nov 1945. She was present at the US-British nuclear bomb tests conducted at Christmas (Kiritimati or Kiribati) Island, a British colony in the Pacific during 1962.

Soldiers carried

Singapore to Fremantle 2 - 13 November 1945

boarded at Balikpapan