SS Cheshire
From Our Contribution
 AWM Photo 123738 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Cheshire |
| Owner | Bibby S.S. Co. Ltd. - Bibby Bros. & Co., Liverpool |
| Builder | Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan |
| Yard number | 620 |
| Launched | 20 Apr 1927 |
| Completed | July 1927 |
| In service | 1927 |
| Out of service | 1957 |
| Fate | broken up 11 Jul 1957 in Newport |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger/Cargo |
| Tonnage | 10,552 tons |
| Length | 483.6 ft (147.4m) |
| Beam | 60.3 ft (18.38m) |
| Depth | 31.8 ft (9.69m) |
| Propulsion | Twin Screw |
Remarks
Used by the Bibby Line on the Far East service . Requisitioned by the Admiralty in September 1939 to act as an Armed merchant Cruiser until July 1943 after which she was used as a troopship.
SS Cheshire carried the last group of Ex Prisoners of war to return from Singapore, arriving in Sydney on 23 Nov 1945. She was present at the US-British nuclear bomb tests conducted at Christmas (Kiritimati or Kiribati) Island, a British colony in the Pacific during 1962.
Soldiers carried
Singapore to Fremantle 2 - 13 November 1945
boarded at Balikpapan