SS Soudan
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 In hosptal ship livery | |
 Troopship version | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name | SS Soudan |
| Owner | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock |
| Builder | Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Yard number | 297 |
| Launched | 7 Mar 1901 |
| Completed | 19 Apr 1901 |
| In service | 30 Apr 1901 |
| Out of service | 1925 |
| Fate | scrapped 11 Dec 1925 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Passenger / cargo |
| Tonnage | 6,680 tons |
| Length | 450.0 ft (137.16) |
| Beam | 52.4 ft (15.97) |
| Depth | 30.5 ft (9.30m) draught 26 ft 7½ in (8.11m) |
| Propulsion | twin screw |
| Speed | 14 knots (25.93 km/h) |
| Capacity | 78 x 1st; 64 x 2nd class, creww of 197 |
Remarks
Owned by the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company and used on 'Intermediate' servicing with Indian trooping as required. Initially during WW1 she was used as a troop ship, before she served as a Royal Navy Hospital Ship from 3 Aug 1914 in the Mediterranean, including the Gallipoli campaign. Released from naval service in 1919.
in 1925 sold to, and broken up by Kisimoto Kisen in Osaka, Japan