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Name: BRANKSOME HALL
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/12/1887
Completed: 02/1888
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 586
Dimensions: 3839grt, 2495nrt, 380.0 x 45.3 x 27.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (29, 47 & 76 x 51ins), 425nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 15.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 93761
History:
08/02/1888 Sun Shipping Co Ltd (R Alexander & Co), Liverpool
1898 Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co, London; renamed TIENTSIN
1906 Shah Steam Navigation Co of India Ltd, Bombay; renamed SHAH NASIR
1909 Bombay & Hujaz Steam Navigation Co of India Ltd, Bombay; renamed FAKHRI
20/12/1911 Wrecked
Comments: Accommodation for 70 x 1st Class & 46 x 2nd Class passengers
Employed on Far Eastern services
29/12/1898: Purchased for £32,802
20/12/1911: Wrecked at the entrance to Perim harbour
On a voyage from Jeddah to Bombay carrying pilgrims
No lives were lost