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EL KAHIRA (1892)
Service dates: 1919-1920
Official number: 110140
Shipping lines: KHEDIVIAL MAIL STEAMSHIP & GRAVING DOCK COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 18.02.1892
- Launched.
- 04.1892
- Completed as El Kahira for Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Company Ltd.
- 04-05.1919
- Takeover of the Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Company Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 1920
- Sold to Transport & Trading Co, London.
- n.d.
- Resold to Franco-British Steamship Company, London.
- 09.07.1922
- Went missing. Last sighted 12 nautical miles west of Casquets en route for Algiers. She was carrying a crew of approximately 30.