SS Soudan
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History | |
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Name | SS Soudan |
Owner | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock |
Builder | Caird & Company, Greenock |
Yard number | 297 |
Launched | 7 Mar 1901 |
Completed | 1901 |
In service | 1901 |
Out of service | 1925 |
Fate | scrapped 11 Dec 1925 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Passenger / cargo |
Tonnage | 6,680 tons |
Length | 450.0 ft |
Beam | 52.4 ft |
Depth | 30.5 ft |
Propulsion | twin screw |
Speed | 14 knots (25.93 km/h) |
Remarks
Owned by the peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Initially during WW1 used as a troop ship, before she served as a Royal Navy Hospital Ship in the Mediterranean during the Gallipoli campaign