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| shipname = SS Leicestershire
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| shipowner = Bibby Steamship Co
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| shipbuilder = Harland & Wolff, Belfast
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| shiplaunched = 3 Jun 1909
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| shipcompleted = 11 Sep 1909
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| shipfate = sunk by German raider
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| shiptype = Ocean Liner (twin screw)
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| shiptonnage = 8,339 tons
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| shiplength = 467 ft
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Built for the Bibby Line to carry 230 single class passengers on the UK Burma route. In August 1914 she was requisitioned for trooping for the Indian Expeditionary Force and carried Indian and Burmese troops to the Persian Gulf before reverting to Bibby services in the following November. Taken over under the Liner Requisition Scheme in March 1917, she served on the North Atlantic, although two voyages were made for Bibby's during that time. In 1918 she carried troops to North Russia to assist the White Russians before repatriating Australian soldiers in early 1919.
  
 
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She was refurbished by Harland and Wolff in 1919 during which time she was converted to oil burning before resuming on the UK - Rangoon route until 1930. In 1930 she was sold to the British National Exhibition Ship Company, renamed ''British Exhibitor'', and refurbished for her new role by Cammell Laird & Company of Birkenhead. During 1932 she was laid up at Southampton before she was purchased by the Egyptian Company for Transport & Navigation who renamed her ''Zam-Zam'' for use on the AEgypt to Jeddah service. Her ownership changed in 1934 to Societe Misr de Navigation, Alexandria.
|  data3  = 1909  Harland & Wolff, Belfast
 
 
 
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|  data5  = 8,059 tons
 
 
 
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==Remarks==
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She was laid up at Suez in October 1939 before retunring to the Alexandria - Cape Town - New York route in February 1941. On 21 Mar 1941 she sailed from New York for Recife to embark 202 passengers. On 17 Apr 1941, despite being a neutral ship she was fired on by the German raider ''Atlantis'' whose Captain recognised her as a Bibby Ship design and decided that she was a disguised troopship. Hit by 55 shells and three bombs at the waterline she was sunk with the loss of 24 lives. The survivors were taken on board ''Dresden'' wich carrid them to St Jean de Luz, France.
Built for the Bibby Line to carry 230 single class passengers.  
 
 
 
In 1917 she was requisitioned for troop use, and after taking troops to northern Russia in 1918 she made one voyage to Melbourne, Australia carrying returning troops.
 
 
 
Following her Australian trip she was handed back to her owners who converted her from coal burning to oil burning and she then continued on the UK - Rangoon route until 1930.
 
  
==List of soldiers carried==
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==Soldiers carried==
  
==Liverpool to Fremantle 10 December 1918 - 15 January 1919==
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===Liverpool to Fremantle 10 December 1918 - 15 January 1919===
 
Troops boarded this vessel on the 9th.
 
Troops boarded this vessel on the 9th.
*[[Stanley Victor Coney]]
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* [[Stanley Victor Coney]]
*[[Albert Helliwell]]
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* [[Albert Helliwell]]
*[[Roby Helliwell]]
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* [[Roby Helliwell]]
*[[Herbert Stanley (Bert) Jones]] From Port Suez 23 Dec 1919
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* [[Herbert Stanley (Bert) Jones]] From Port Suez 23 Dec 1919
*[[Henry George Price]]
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* [[Henry George Price]]
*[[Spencer Gwynne DCM MID]] From Port Suez 23 Dec 1919
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* [[Spencer Gwynne DCM MID]] From Port Suez 23 Dec 1919
  
==Liverpool to Fremantle 3 May 1919 - 11 June 1919==
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===Liverpool to Fremantle 3 May 1919 - 11 June 1919===
*[[Richard Evans MM]]
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* [[Richard Evans MM]]
*[[William Hall ww2]] moved to the area between the wars.
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* [[William Hall ww2]] moved to the area between the wars.
  
  
 
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Revision as of 20:00, 4 December 2021

SS Leicestershire
SS Leicestershire.jpg
SS Leicestershire 1.jpg
Under construction at Harland & Wolff
History
Name SS Leicestershire
Owner Bibby Steamship Co
Builder Harland & Wolff, Belfast
Launched 3 Jun 1909
Completed 11 Sep 1909
Fate sunk by German raider
General characteristics
Type Ocean Liner (twin screw)
Tonnage 8,339 tons
Length 467 ft
Beam 54 ft
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 15 knots



Remarks

Built for the Bibby Line to carry 230 single class passengers on the UK Burma route. In August 1914 she was requisitioned for trooping for the Indian Expeditionary Force and carried Indian and Burmese troops to the Persian Gulf before reverting to Bibby services in the following November. Taken over under the Liner Requisition Scheme in March 1917, she served on the North Atlantic, although two voyages were made for Bibby's during that time. In 1918 she carried troops to North Russia to assist the White Russians before repatriating Australian soldiers in early 1919.


She was refurbished by Harland and Wolff in 1919 during which time she was converted to oil burning before resuming on the UK - Rangoon route until 1930. In 1930 she was sold to the British National Exhibition Ship Company, renamed British Exhibitor, and refurbished for her new role by Cammell Laird & Company of Birkenhead. During 1932 she was laid up at Southampton before she was purchased by the Egyptian Company for Transport & Navigation who renamed her Zam-Zam for use on the AEgypt to Jeddah service. Her ownership changed in 1934 to Societe Misr de Navigation, Alexandria.


She was laid up at Suez in October 1939 before retunring to the Alexandria - Cape Town - New York route in February 1941. On 21 Mar 1941 she sailed from New York for Recife to embark 202 passengers. On 17 Apr 1941, despite being a neutral ship she was fired on by the German raider Atlantis whose Captain recognised her as a Bibby Ship design and decided that she was a disguised troopship. Hit by 55 shells and three bombs at the waterline she was sunk with the loss of 24 lives. The survivors were taken on board Dresden wich carrid them to St Jean de Luz, France.

Soldiers carried

Liverpool to Fremantle 10 December 1918 - 15 January 1919

Troops boarded this vessel on the 9th.

Liverpool to Fremantle 3 May 1919 - 11 June 1919