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SS Kashgar
RMS Kashgar.jpg
courtesy Old Ship Picture Galleries
RMS Kashgar 1.jpg
History
Name SS Kashgar
Owner Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Greenock
Builder Caird & Company, Greenock
Yard number 328
Launched 3 Nov 1914
Completed 1915
In service 1915
Out of service 1932
Fate broken up 31 Mar 1932
General characteristics
Type passenger / cargo
Tonnage 9,135 tons
Length 479.9 ft (146.27m)
Beam 58.2 ft (17.74m)
Depth 33.7 ft (10.27m)
Propulsion twin screw
Speed 15 knots (27.78 km/h)



Remarks

Owned by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Sold to Japan in 1932 to be broken up.

Soldiers carried

Port Said to Plymouth 9 - 30 January 1918

Bombay to Singapore 9 - 18 November 1919