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PALERMO (1903)
Service dates: 1903-1924
Official number: 115774
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 27.05.1903
- Launched.
- 25.06.1903
- Registered.
- 30.06.1903
- Delivered as Palermo for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £106,761. She was first of the 5-strong ‘P’ class. Palermo is the capital of Sicily, the island province of southern Italy.
- 1905
- Detained by Chinese Customs under suspicion of carrying arms for Japan.
- 1906
- Fitted with refrigerated cargo facilities.
- 01.1906
- Run into by the sailing vessel Retrieve while anchored at Garden Reach, Calcutta.
- 1915/1917
- Employed as an Australian transport, and requisitioned by the Shipping Controller afterwards.
- 1922
- Diverted to pick up mails from Egypt, which had been sunk.
- 22.10.1924
- Sold for £18,000 to Italiana Prodotti Metallici, Italy, for demolition.