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| shipname = HMT Abbassieh
| shipowner = Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Company
| shipbuilder = Scott & Co, Greenock
| shipyardnumber = 269
| shiplaunched = 28 Sep 1889 as SS Mocambique
| shipcompleted = 19 Nov 1889
| shipinservice = March 1900
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| shipfate = scrapped
| shiptype = Passenger/cargo liner
| shiptonnage = 3,199 tons
| shiplength = 110.79m
| shipbeam = 12.86m
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| shippropulsion = Triple-expansion steam engine, Single screw
| shipspeed = 10 knots
| shipcapacity = 77 first class, 49 second class, 350 deck passengers
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Remarks
Launched as Mocambique for the Mala Real Portugueza, Lisbon, for service to the Portuguese African colonies. In 1902 she was sold to W MacAndrew, Lisbon, and renamed Alvarez Cabral. Resold again in 1902, this time to the Prince Line Ltd, Newcastle, and renamed Sicilian Prince for the Livorno/Genoa/Naples/Palermo/New York service. In 1908 she was chartered to Northwest Transport Line for four Rotterdam / Halifax / New York voyages.
During 1915 she appears to have had regular troop run from Mudros to the Dardanelles landing sites.
In 1910 she was sold to Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Company Ltd, London, and renamed Abbassieh. In 1919 a takeover of the Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Company Ltd by P&O was agreed, and ship now a part of the P & O fleet until she was scrapped in Italy during 1931.
Soldiers carried
Gallipoli to Mudross 14 Dec 1915
10th Light Horse Regiment and others, including