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NANKIN (1912)
Service dates: 1912-1931
Official number: 131857
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 04.1911
- Ordered.
- 18.05.1912
- Launched.
- 02.07.1912
- Registered and delivered as Nankin for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 12.07.1912
- Sailed from Greenock.
- 1917
- Missed by a torpedo in the Channel.
- 1919
- Caught fire while in Devonport with a cargo of ammunition.
- 14.09.1931
- Sold for £27,000 to Eastern and Australian Steam Ship Co. Ltd., London for their Australia/Japan service.
- 10.05.1942
- Captured by the German raider Thor in the Indian Ocean, West of Australia.
- 20.11.1942
- Destroyed by fire and explosion when the tanker Uckermark exploded during bunkering.