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DELHI (1905)
Service dates: 1905-1911
Official number: 117398
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 14.10.1905
- Launched.
- 23.11.1905
- Registered.
- 29.11.1905
- Delivered as Delhi for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £159,438.
- 1906
- Survived unscathed a Hong Kong typhoon.
- 1906
- Beat by five days the vaunted Canadian Pacific ‘Westabout’ route for mails from Hong Kong.
- 1907
- Carried the Duke and Duchess of Connaught from Colombo to Hong Kong.
- 13.12.1911
- Ran ashore at 0230hrs in very bad weather 3.2 km (2 miles) south of Cape Spartel, Morocco, whilst on a voyage from London to Bombay with passengers and general cargo. The passengers included HRH The Princess Royal, her husband the Duke of Fife and their daughters, who were making a visit to Egypt. All aboard, the luggage, the specie and mails were rescued with the assistance of Royal Navy and French Navy units, but three French seamen from the cruiser Friant, the first ship to answer Delhi’s radio distress call, were drowned when their launch capsized.
- 03.1912
- Wreck abandoned when she broke her back.