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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