Name: | SILESIA |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 15/11/1898 |
Completed: | 02/1899 |
Builder: | Wigham Richardson & Co |
Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
Yard Number: | 351 |
Dimensions: | 5159grt, 3340nrt, 400.0 x 49.0 x 19.9ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (23, 31.5, 48 & 71 x 45ins), 421nhp |
Engines by: | Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
02/1899 | Lloyd Austriaco, Trieste |
1917 | Government of China, renamed HWAH YIH |
1934 | Renamed HWAH AN |
1934 | Broken up |
Comments: | Built with accommodation for 20 x passengers |
1914: Laid up at Shanghai when war broke out | |
1917: Seized by the Chinese Government | |
1934: Broken up at Shanghai by Kiangnan Dock & EW Co |
Above photo as HWAH YIH courtesy of Photoship