HMAT A49 Seang Choon

History
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.

Port Suez - Fremantle 17 July 1916 - 21 Jul 1916

• Percy Francis Keenan