SS China

History
Name	SS China
Builder/Built	1889 Fairfield & Co, Glasgow
Displacement	5,480 tons
Speed	17 knots

Remarks

Built for Pacific Mail Steamship Company and used on the US west coast to Asia routes. Charted by the US Government to move troops during the war with Spain in 1898. In 1915 sold to the Atlantic Transport Company of West Virginia and sold on to the China Mail Steamship Corporation. Laid up in 1923 and sent to the wreckers two years later.

England to Fremantle 1 May - 1 June 1919

• William Edward Butcher MM RMG MID
• John Aubrey Nunn MC
• Sidney John Richards
• James Thomson MM
• Aubrey Turner