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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.


Ship technical details (PDF)