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SICILIA (1901)
Service dates: 1901-1926
Official number: 113933
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 22.12.1900
- Launched.
- 05.02.1901
- Registered.
- 09.02.1901
- Delivered as Sicilia for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was the first of 5 sisters delivered in 1901-1902, followed by Syria, Somali, Soudan and Sardinia.
- 1901
- Maiden voyage trooping to Calcutta.
- 1901
- Lost a propeller.
- 1901/1903
- Boer War trooping.
- 10.06.1903
- Broke port shaft and lost port propeller at 42°25’N-9°47’W when bound Las Palmas for Southampton, arriving under starboard propeller only.
- 1903/1904
- Indian trooping.
- 1904/1905
- Indian trooping.
- 1905
- Laid up.
- 1906
- General trooping.
- 1907/1908
- Indian trooping.
- 1907
- Rumour aboard that a Sergeant had been murdered by lascars, whereas in reality he had deserted to the Chinese Army.
- 1908
- UK/India and Chinese services.
- 19.08.1909
- Deadweight 8,700 tons. Draught 8.258m (27ft 1¼in).
- 10.09.1914
- Hired by the Admiralty for service as a hospital ship (No E0261), and served for some time in the Dardanelles.
- 01.1926
- Sold to Kishimoto Kisen K K, Japan for demolition at Osaka.