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Name | HMT Kalyan |
Builder/Built | 1915 Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
Type | passenger / cargo ship |
Displacement | 9,000 tons |
Remarks
Owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Navigation Company between 1915 and 1932.
Used as a troop ship between England, Egypt and Salonika.
She was then refitted as a hospital ship and dispatched to North Russia in October 1918. After a 12-day voyage she arrived in Archangel. There she acted as a temporary base hospital for British, Canadian, French, Italian, Chinese and Russian sick and wounded.
Scrapped in Japan in 1932.