SS Kalyan
title: "SS Kalyan" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["steamships", "1914-ships", "troop-ships"] topic_path: "general/steamships" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kalyan" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| section1 | {{Infobox ship/image |
| image | American First World War Official Exchange Collection Q47857.jpg |
| section2 | {{Infobox ship/career |
| country | United Kingdom |
| flag | |
| name | SS Kalyan |
| operator | Royal Navy (1915—1919) P & O (1919–1932) |
| builder | Cammell Laird, Birkenhead |
| laid_down | 1914 |
| launched | 24 September 1914 |
| out_of_service | 1932 |
| fate | Sold to Japanese ship breakers, 12 February 1932 |
| section3 | {{Infobox ship/characteristics |
| type | *Troop ship (1915–1918) |
| tonnage | |
| length | 480.6 ft |
| beam | 58.2 ft |
| height | 37.7 ft |
| propulsion | 2 screws producing 7040 hp |
| notes | |
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|section3={{Infobox ship/characteristics |hide_header= |header_caption= |class= |type=*Troop ship (1915–1918)
- Hospital ship (1918–1919)
- Passenger-cargo ship (1919–1932) |tonnage= |displacement= |length=480.6 ft |beam=58.2 ft |height=37.7 ft |draught= |draft= |depth= |decks= |deck_clearance= |ramps= |ice_class= |sail_plan= |power= |propulsion=2 screws producing 7040 hp |speed= |capacity= |crew= |notes= '*SS *Kalyan''''' was a ship operated by the P & O shipping line between 1915 and 1932.
Wartime Service
Kalyan was used as a troop ship between England, Egypt and Salonika. She was then refitted as a hospital ship and dispatched to North Russia in October 1918. After a 12-day voyage she arrived in Archangel. There she acted as a temporary base hospital for British, Canadian, French, Italian, Chinese and Russian sick and wounded. The ship remained there throughout the winter, with ice having to be broken each day to prevent damage through "pinching".
She returned to Leith in June 1919. Many of her crew were Muslim Lascars who had problems during Ramadan 1919, as they were above the Arctic Circle and the sun did not set. General Ironside gave them dispensation from observing the Ramadan fast.
Sister ships
- SS Karmala
- SS Kashgar
- SS Kashmir
- SS Khiva
- SS Khyber
Citations
References
References
- "KALYAN".
- Robinson, W. G.. (May–June 1990). "Hospital Ship at Archangel, 1918–19". British North America Philatelic Society Ltd..
- Ironside, Edmund. "Archangel 1918-1919".
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