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KHYBER (1914)
Service dates: 1914-1931
Official number: 135564
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 29.11.1913
- Launched, a difficult job as there was a wrecked steamer almost in the way, avoided by the careful use of drag chains.
- 17.03.1914
- Ran trials and delivered as Khyber for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £196,346. She was the second of the six-strong K-class of ‘superior intermediate steamers’ designed for the Indian trade.
- 04.1914
- Maiden voyage London/Yokohama.
- 08.1915
- Fire in her cargo while in Tilbury Docks.
- 04.1917
- Dropped a screw in the Mediterranean and had to be put back to Port Said.
- 10.1917
- Requisitioned. She spent the whole war without attack or damage of any kind.
- 11.1918
- Began repatriating prisoners-of-war and Belgian refugees, during the course of which duties she ran aground on a Norfolk sandbank. Later took Australian troops home.
- 09.1919
- Returned to commercial service on the Bombay run.
- 1922
- Damaged by a fire in sheds alongside at Marseilles.
- 1924
- Overhauled at Falmouth before rejoining the Far East route.
- 06.1925
- Re-measured. Tonnage 9,114 grt, 5,674 nrt. 92 first class plus 18 children passenger capacity. Cargo capacity 13,913 cubic metres (491,440 cubic feet).
- 1926
- Laid up off Southend for a while.
- 10.1931
- Sold for £16,250 to Tamizo Okushoji, Japan for demolition at Osaka.