Draft:SS Ceylon

SS Ceylon was a P&O cargo ship that was commissioned in 1894. She was sunk by SM U-103 in 12 November, 1917.

Construction

Sir Raylton Dixon & Co of Middlesbrough built the ship and sold it to P&O for £62,341. She was given the yard number 355. She was launched on 9 April, 1894, and named Ceylon.[1]

She had a registered length of 375 ft (114.26 m), a beam of 47 ft (14.32 m), a depth of 28 ft (8.53m) and a draught of 24.7 ft (7.535 m). She was slightly larger than her sister ship Aden in size.[2] She had a passenger capacity of 30 first class passengers, 51 crew, and a cargo capacity of 265,144 cubic feet (7,507 cubic metres).[1]

She had a single screw, driven by a three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine built by Thomas Richardson & Sons of Hartlepool. It was rated at 3000 ihp, which gave her a speed of 14.3 knots during her sea trials.[1]

P&O registered the ship at Middlesbrough. Her UK official number was 98785 and her signal letters were NLBL.[1]

Service History

SS Ceylon first underwent her sea trails on 17 July, 1894, and was registered the next day on 18 July. She was delivered to P&O on 20 July, 1894.[1]

On 26 July, 1894, she departed on her maiden voyage to Calcutta.[1]

On 12 December, 1896, she was involved in a collision with the Norwegian Steamer Venezia. She suffered minor damage. [1]

In 1897, she escorted the then King of Siam from Singapore to Venice when the king was in his new yacht.[1]

Ceylon ran aground on 22 March, 1908. She was refloated with minimum damage.[1]

From 1913 to 1916, she transferred ownerships several times. First in May 1913, being sold to Kishimoto Kabushiki Kaisha, Japan, with the new name Yamata Maru, before being sold to Kawachi Goshi Kaisha, Japan in 1915. She was later sold to Spanish owners with the new name Moncada, and in December 1916, she was renamed Depute Pierre Goujon sold to the French Government.[1]

On 12 November, 1917, she was torpedoed and sunk of Belle Île in the Bay of Biscay by the German Submarine SM U-103. There were no casualties.[1][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Ship Fact Sheet. P&O Heritage". P&O Heritage.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "SS Aden. Ship Fact Sheet". P&O Heritage.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ "Ships hit during WW1. Depute Pierre Goujon". Uboat.net.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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