OXFORDSHIRE

Ship Details

Rig

Steel Twin Screw Steamer, 906nhp

Built

1912

Built In

Belfast

Tonnage

8,646g, 5414n

Built By

Harland & Wolff Ltd

Dimensions

474.7 x 55.3 x 32.1

Demise

Bibby Line Ltd., reg. Liverpool. 1914: Converted into the first British army hospital ship. 1915: Gallipoli landing. 1918: Returned to Bibby Line. 1919: Oil fired. Commenced voyages Britain to Burma. 1939: Requisitioned again as a hospital ship, anchored at Freetown for 3 years. 1942 Nov.: North Africa invasion fleet. Then service in the Mediterranean. 1945: Repatriated prisoners of war to Aust. 1948: Returned to Bibby Line. Voyages from UK to Aust.1950: Troop vessel Trieste to Port Said. 1951: Pan-Islamic Steamship Co. & renamed. Pilgram ship to Jedda. 1958: Sold to shipbreakers in Karachi.

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Imelda Finnerty (not verified) on Wed, 2021-03-17 08:12
Alarmed to read that SS Oxfordshire was sold to breakers in 1958 since I sailed to Singapore on it in February 1959 from Southampton to Singapore and returned in I think May 1961. My father, the late Major John Finnerty was in the Army, he posted to Singapore and travelled six months before my mother Grace and my two sisters. Both voyages were exciting and memorable for a child.

Angela Easton (not verified) on Tue, 2021-12-07 16:28
Sailed to Aden as a child with the r Easton family on troopship Oxfordshire in 1961

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