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H.M.T. Kashgar
The Kashgar was used in the transportation of
troops back from India, departing Bombay on the 11th Aug
1919 and arriving in Plymouth on the 1st Sept.
This may have been for the troops from the 1/25th who were attached to the
1/9th Middlesex in 1917, as it is the ship used by one such soldier Eddie
Bolton.
| P&O fact
sheet |
| * indicates
entries changed during P&O Group service. |
| Type |
Passenger/cargo liner |
| P&O
Group service |
1914-1932 |
| P&O
Group status |
Owned by parent company |
| Registered owners |
The Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company |
| Builders |
Caird & Co Ltd |
| Yard |
Greenock |
| Yard
number |
328 |
| Registry |
Greenock, UK |
| Official number |
128654 |
| Signal
letters |
JHKT |
| Call sign |
GQSC |
| Classification society |
Lloyd’s Register |
| Gross
tonnage |
8,840 grt |
| Net
tonnage |
5,538 nrt |
| Deadweight |
11,500 tons |
| Length |
146.22m (479.9ft) |
| Breadth |
17.73m (58.2ft) |
| Depth |
10.27m (33.7ft) |
| Draught |
8.808m (28ft 10in) |
| Engines |
Quadruple-expansion steam
engines |
| Engine
builders |
Caird & Co Ltd |
| Power |
9,000 ihp |
| Propulsion |
Twin screw |
| Speed |
15 knots |
| Passenger capacity |
71 first class and 17 children,
66 second class |
| Cargo
capacity |
14,146 cubic metres (499,650
cubic feet) |
| Crew |
192 (53 European, 139 Asian).
Deck 18 European, 34 Asian; engineroom 11 European, 79 Asian;
purser’s department 29 European, 26 Asian |
| Employment |
Non-mail UK/India and later
UK/Far East services |
| 03.11.1914 |
Launched. |
| 15.12.1914 |
Ran trials and delivered as
Kashgar for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a
cost of £186,391. Fourth of the six K-class ships built in 1914-15
(after Khiva, Khyber and Karmala, before Kashmir and Kalyan both
completed in 1915) for the expansion and improvement of the
‘intermediate’ services to India and the Far East. |
| 11.1915 |
Beat off a gun attack by a
submarine in the Mediterranean. |
| 9.1917 |
Commissioned as an
Expeditionary Force transport for Mediterranean service. |
| 10.1919 |
Reverted to The Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company and placed on the Far East route. |
| 6.1925 |
Revived P&O mail calls at
Southampton. |
| 1927 |
One winter morning at Shanghai,
the weather was so cold that her steering gear froze, and her Captain
suffered frostbitten toes which had to be amputated. |
| 25.11.1928 |
Collided with the quayside at
Dunkirk and sustained severe damage. Soon afterwards demolished a
floating dock and collided with the French steamer Nicola Schiaffino. |
| 20.01.1932 |
Sale agreed for £16,250 to
Tamizo Okushoji, Japan for demolition. |
| 31.01.1932 |
Collided with the Hans Maersk
in fog at night between London and Southampton on her delivery voyage
to Kobe. |
| 31.03.1932 |
Handed over in Osaka. |
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Courtesy
of P&O Heritage
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Acknowledgments to the Clydebuilt
Database from the original records by Stuart Cameron.
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