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| Name | Seang Choon |
| Builder/Built | 1891 Harland & Wolff, Belfast |
| Type | Passenger ship |
| Displacement | 5,807 tons |
| Speed | 12 knots (22kmph) |
Remarks
Built for the Bibby Line and named the Cheshire, she was used during the Boer War as a troopship.
In 1910 she was sold to Lim Chin Tsong of Rangoon and renamed as the Seang Choon. Taken over in 1915 as a troopship, and later a hospital ship involved with the Dardanelles campaign.
Torpedoed and sunk off the coast of Ireland on 10 Jul 1917 while on a voyage from Sydney to London by submarine U-87 with 19 lives lost.