| Name: | LAWANG |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 27/11/1890 |
| Completed: | 02/1891 |
| Builder: | CS Swan & Hunter |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 160 |
| Dimensions: | 2485grt, 1552nrt, 300.6 x 41.0 x 21.6ft |
| Engines: | T3cyl (26, 42 & 69 x 45ins), 333nhp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 10.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a; (1891: 106984) |
| History: | |
| 02/1891 | Deutsche Dampfschiffs Rhederei zu Hamburg (Sunda-Linie), Hamburg |
| 1895 | Cie de Navigation Mixte, Marseille; renamed DAHOMÉ |
| 1898 | Furness, Withy & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool |
| 1910 | Mihran Nakashian, Constantinople; renamed KAISSERI |
| 1911 | Royal Italian Navy; renamed ERITREA |
| 1923 | Broken up |
| Comments: | 1898 to 1910: Sources differ on the spelling of the name, DAHOMÉ or DAHOME |
| 1910: Spelling of the name KAISSERI also seen as KAISERI & KAISERIEH | |
| 16/12/1911: Captured by the Italian protected cruiser PUGLIA in the Red Sea. | |
| The KAISSERI was disguised as a hospital ship, with emblems of the Red Crescent, but she was loaded with a cargo of coal. | |
| The coal was much needed by 7 small Turkish gunboats that were hiding themselves at the Farasan islands in the Red Sea not far from the port of Al Qunfudhah | |
| 1911: Used as a naval transport | |
| 1923: Broken up |
Above photo as ERITREA courtesy of Navie Armatori
The Times, Monday, Dec 25, 1911