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From: "Ted Finch" <>
Subject: Re: [TSL] SS Nubia - Cape Town to Durban in 1899
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 19:21:08 -0000
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Hello Chris,

NUBIA 1895
5,914 gross tons, length 430ft x beam 49.3ft, one funnel, two masts, single
screw, speed 14 knots, accommodation for 90-1st and 62-2nd class passengers.
Built by Caird & Co, Greenock, she was launched on 13th Dec.1894 for the P &
O Steam Navigation Co and was used on the intermediate service to Calcutta
and trooping as required. In 1897 cholera broke out among Indian troops
while she was trooping for the Boer War and she was also used as a hospital
ship during this conflict. On 20th Jun.1915 she was wrecked off Colombo
while waiting for a pilot. At the time she was en route Bombay - Colombo -
Shanghai with general cargo. There were no casualties.[Merchant Fleets vol.1
by Duncan Haws] [P & O, A Fleet History by S. Rabson & K. O'Donoghue]

regards
Ted

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Sanham <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 6:36 PM
Subject: [TSL] SS Nubia - Cape Town to Durban in 1899


> Ted FINCH very kindly gave me some information, a few weeks back, about
the
> SS German that brought a contingent of the Rifle Brigade out from England
in
> 1899.
>
> I have now discovered that, after stopping at Teneriffe & St Helena en
> route, the SS German arrived at Cape Town where the Rifle Brigade
> transhipped to the SS Nubia and sailed on to Durban.
>
> I would be grateful for any information about the SS Nubia - any guidance
on
> what its usual routes were would be particularly helpful.
>
> With many thanks
>
> Chris SANHAM
>
>
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