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SUMATRA (1895)
Service dates: 1895-1914
Official number: 104638
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 25.06.1895
- Launched.
- 06.08.1895
- Registered.
- 20.08.1895
- Ran trials and delivered as Sumatra for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £78,843. One of a class of vessels for the China, Japan and Straits service that included Mazagon (1894) and Borneo, Sunda and Palawan built later in 1895.
- 1899
- Taken up for Transvaal and later Boer War trooping duties. In the same year she was in collision with the Rhodesia, and was also damaged in the Royal Albert Dock.
- 1901
- Released from transport service.
- 05.1908
- Deadweight 5,860 tons.
- 02.1914
- Sold for £17,280 to Arab Steamers Ltd., Bombay.
- 10.1915
- Sold to Empreza Nacional de Navegacao a Vapor para a Africa Portugueza, Portugal, and renamed Mossamedes.
- 04.1918
- Transferred to Cia. Nacional de Navegacao, Portugal.
- 24.04.1923
- Wrecked at Cape Fria, South West Africa in position 18°33’S-12°03’E. She was on a voyage from Table Bay to Lisbon, with passengers, general cargo and mails.