Detail cropped from this photo: https://gwulo.com/atom/35577
Kowloon Wharves
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Date picture taken (may be approximate):
Wednesday, December 1, 1937
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- Kowloon Wharves shows Place Kowloon Wharves [????-????]
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The liner berthed at the
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:
World Ship Society ISBN 0 905617 45 2
Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. ISBN 0 297 78965 1
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