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PESHAWUR (1905)
Service dates: 1905-1917
Official number: 121223
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 08.03.1905
- Launched.
- 30.04.1905
- Registered as Peshawur for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Peshawur (or Peshawar) was a town and military cantonment in the Afghan frontier area of British India, near the Khyber Pass, and is now in northern Pakistan. P&O first used the name in 1871.
- 1905
- Came adrift in Antwerp causing damage to herself and the quay.
- 01.03.1910
- First P&O ship to sail on the former Blue Anchor Line service via the Cape to Australia.
- 1916
- Damaged by a steamer drifting down on her in Newport.
- 22.11.1916
- Beat off a submarine attack off Ushant.
- 09.10.1917
- Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U96, 11km (7 miles) south east ¼ east from Ballyquintin Point, Co Down. She was on a voyage from Sydney, Nova Scotia to Milford Haven and France with general cargo, but appears to have missed a warning to make for Belfast Lough because of the submarine being in the area. 13 of her crew of 125 were lost (the Third Engineer, a winchman and 11 native engineroom crew), the remainder being picked up by the patrol yacht Albion III some 1½ hours after Peshawur sank.