Metrics

Type Passenger liner

P&O Group service 1900-1915

Registered owners, managers and operators: The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

Builders Caird & Co Ltd Yard Greenock

Country UK

Yard number 295

Registry Greenock, UK

Official number 109258

Signal letters RWLJ

Call sign

Classification society Lloyd’s Register

Gross tonnage 7,951 grt

Net tonnage 4,198 nrt

Deadweight 5,449 tons

Length 152.29m (499.8ft)

Breadth 16.54m (54.3ft)

Depth 7.46m (24.5ft)

Draught 8.024m (26ft 4in)

Engines Triple-expansion steam engines

Engine builders Caird & Co Ltd

Works Greenock

Country UK

Power 11,000 ihp

Propulsion Single screw

Speed 17 knots

Passenger capacity 320 first class, 210 second class

Cargo capacity 4,859 cubic metres (171,616 cubic feet)

Crew [1914] 283 (116 European, 167 Asian).

Deck 23 European, 45 Asian;

Engineroom 11 European, 81 Asian;

Purser’s department 99 European, 41 Asian

Employment UK/India service