Khedive Ismail

Ship Details

Rig

Steamship/Troop Transport

Built

1922

Tonnage

7513

Demise

sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1944 with great loss of life.

Description

SS Khedive Ismail, formerly SS Aconcagua, was a turbine steamship that was built in 1922 as an ocean liner, converted into a troop ship in 1940 and sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1944 with great loss of life. She was owned by the Chilean company CSAV 1922–32, the Scottish William Hamilton & Co (1932–35), the Egyptian company KML 1935–40 and the British Ministry of War Transport 1940–44.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Khedive_Ismail (accesed on 14/3/2018)

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