Name: | FORT SALISBURY |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 27/12/1894 |
Completed: | 03/1895 |
Builder: | Armstrong, Mitchell & Co |
Yard: | Walker |
Yard Number: | 620 |
Dimensions: | 4435grt, 2809nrt, 360.0 x 47.0 x 27.8ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (30, 50 & 80 x 54ins), 578nhp |
Engines by: | R &W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 13.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 104851 |
History: | |
03/1895 | British & Colonial Steam Navigation Co (Bucknall Bros), London |
1900 | Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd, London |
1913 | Andrew Weir & Co (Bank Line), Glasgow; renamed GUJURAT |
1913 | Booth Steam Ship Co, Liverpool; renamed VINCENT |
1919 | Hajee MH Nemazee, Hong Kong; renamed GORJISTAN |
1928 | Broken up |
Comments: | Built for the service between UK and South & East Africa |
Accommodation for 66 x 1st Class passengers | |
1913: Used on Weir's India to Africa service | |
1921: Used to carry pilgrims to Mecca | |
05/10/1928: Broken up at Kobe, Japan |
Above photo as FORT SALISBURY is courtesy of Photoship