Name: | CEYLAN |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 13/08/1907 |
Completed: | 12/1907 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 793 |
Dimensions: | 8214grt, 5128nrt, 483.0 x 56.6 x 33.4ft |
Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (25.5, 43 & 70 x 48ins), 679nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 14.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | n/a |
History: | |
12/1907 | Cie Française de Navigation à Vapeur Chargeurs Réunis, Le Havre |
03/1934 | Broken up |
Comments: | Accommodation for 60 x 1st and 72 x 2nd Class passengers |
Built for the company's service to the Far East & "round the world" service | |
23/08/1914: Requisitioned as a troop transport | |
24/10/1914: Registered as a hospital ship | |
1914: Stationed at Dunkirk as a typhoid hospital for 600 x patients | |
1915: Repatriated wounded from Salonika & Moudros to Toulon | |
16/01/1916: Returned to owners | |
21/03/1934: Arrived at La Spezia for breaking up | |
03/1934: Broken up by SA Cantiere di Portovenere |
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo is courtesy of Photoship
Above photo, as a hospital ship, is courtesy of Photoship
Lloyd's List, Wednesday, 14/08/1907