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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| KIATING |
153595 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1925 |
shipped |
06/10/1925 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| River Steamer Passenger/Cargo
| Steel Steam Turbine |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Yarrow & Co. (1922) Ltd., |
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1492 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 423 grt / 226 nrt / 465 tons disp. |
149.5 ft |
26.8 ft |
7.7 ft |
6 ft 2 in |
| Engine builder |
Yarrow & Co. (1922) Ltd., |
| Engine detail |
Twin geared Brown-Curtis steam turbines. 1700shp. 10kn. 2-screw
2 x Yarrow boilers 250 lb/sq.in.
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| China Navigation Co Ltd - manager, John Swire & Sons Ltd, London |
London |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
| 1937 Chinese owners, Chinese flag. |
| Vessel history |
c1930 Came under sniper fire from communists and carried British army detachment.
14/11/1930 attacked after going aground upstream of Ichang and defended by detachment from the company's SIANGTAN until towed off by KIAN. |
| Remarks |
Re-assembled at Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co Ltd, Hong Kong
For Upper Yangtse River, Chungking-Suifu sevices |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1939 |
Deleted |
| Disposal Detail |
| 1939 deleted from Lloyd's Register. Later history unknown. |
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