HMT Malta
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| History | |
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| Name | HMT Malta |
| Owner | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock |
| Builder | Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Yard number | 278 |
| Launched | 14 May 1895 |
| Completed | 22 Jun 1895 |
| In service | 1895 |
| Out of service | 1922 |
| Fate | Broken up 21 Dec 1922 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | passenger / cargo |
| Tonnage | 6,064 tons |
| Length | 430 ft |
| Beam | 50.3 ft |
| Depth | 29.9 ft |
| Propulsion | single screw |
| Speed | 14.5 knots (26.85 km/h) |
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Remarks
Owned by the Peninsular and Orient Steamship Company of London.
Post WW1 was used on the London to Bombay route via Malta and Port Said until scrapped in Italy on 21 Dec 1922 at La Spezia.
Soldiers carried
England to Sydney 31 July 1918 - 28 September 1918
Sydney to Port Suez 16 October 1918 - 22 November 1918
- Inez Clare Cronin disembarked in Bombay on 14 November.
- Thomas Herbert Pierssene