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NUBIA (1895)
Service dates: 1895-1916
Official number: 102394
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 13.12.1894
- Launched by Mrs A P Lyle of Greenock.
- 05.02.1895
- Registered as Nubia for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company.
- 01.03.1895
- Sailed on maiden voyage UK/Calcutta.
- 19.03.1895
- Went aground in Banden Fukon Bay, Aden.
- 24.03.1895
- Refloated after discharging cargo and ballast.
- 01.1899
- Cholera outbreak among passengers.
- 1899/1903
- Transport and hospital ship during the Boer War.
- 1903
- Based on Far Eastern station.
- 01.1909
- Deadweight increased.
- 20.06.1915
- Wrecked 1km north of Colombo.