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MOOLTAN (1905)
Service dates: 1905-1917
Official number: 117397
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 03.08.1905
- Launched.
- 04.10.1905
- Registered.
- 08.10.1905
- Left her builders as Mooltan for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £314,982.
- 28.10.1905
- Exhibited for charity at Tilbury for two days - proceeds to the Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich.
- 03.11.1905
- Maiden voyage London/Bombay.
- 19.01.1906
- Replaced the 18-year-old Oceana on the Australian service.
- 10.01.1908
- Carried the Empress Eugenie from Marseilles to Colombo for a proposed visit to India, but she fell ill and returned home in Mooltan on her next homeward sailing.
- 03.1910
- Deadweight 7,380 tons. Draught 8.963m (29ft 5in).
- 24.06.1911
- Carried P&O’s guests to the Coronation Review at Spithead.
- 07.08.1914
- Continued in passenger service after the outbreak of War, on this voyage carrying Lord Kitchener and his staff to Port Said.
- 25.07.1917
- Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine UC27.
- 28.07.1917
- Passengers and crew landed at Marseilles.