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SS Soudan
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History
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

Soldiers carried

Devonport to Fremantle 12 May - 21 June 1919