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NAMUR (1906)

Service dates: 1906-1917

Official number: 123528

Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


Passenger/Cargo Ship.


Career

26.07.1906
Launched.
03.09.1906
Registered.
17.09.1906
Sailed from the builder’s yard as Namur for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
01.1911
Deadweight 9,052 tons. Draught 8.271m (27ft 1¾in).
29.10.1917
Torpedoed by the German submarine U35, 90 km (55 miles) east by south from Gibraltar in position 30°00’N-4°15’W. She sank within 40 minutes with the loss of one life.


Ship technical details (PDF)