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Kowloon Wharves

Kowloon Wharves

Detail cropped from this photo: https://gwulo.com/atom/35577

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Wednesday, December 1, 1937
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Comments

The liner berthed at the Kowloon Wharves is probably one of the four R class liners built for P&O (Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.) in 1925.

Comparing the photo with the 2 pictures from the book “P&O – A Fleet History” the ship in question is likely to be the RANCHI. The pair of rectangular windows directly below the bridge wings is a feature only seen in pictures of the RANCHI. After WW 2 the liner had a single funnel.

RANCHI – built 1925 Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

                 Two steam quadruple expansion 4 cylinder engines.

                 Broken up 1953 in the UK

 

Ref:

  • P&O A Fleet History – Rabson and O’Donoghue

                   World Ship Society  ISBN 0 905617 45 2

 

  • The Story of P&O – D and S Howarth

                    Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd.   ISBN 0 297 78965 1

Regards 

degahkg

 

Ranchi P&O post-war .jpg
Ranchi P&O post-war .jpg, by degahkg

       

Ranchi P&O pre-war.jpg
Ranchi P&O pre-war.jpg, by degahkg