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Name: KHALIF
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 06/04/1898
Completed: 06/1898
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 735
Dimensions: 3508grt, 2219nrt, 350.0 x 45.2 x 27.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (24, 40 & 64 x 45ins), 317nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 109443
History:
06/1898 Bedouin Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W & R Thomson), Liverpool
1911 Fratelli Bianchi, Genoa; renamed FRATELLI BIANCHI
04/07/1917 Sank
Comments: 04/07/1917: Torpedoed and sunk by U-Boat U34 when 4 miles
off Cape de l’Aguille, east of Oran
On a voyage from Newport to Taranto with a cargo of coal


The Marine Engineer, 01/05/1898