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SS Taiping (1925)

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	VSIS Taiping.jpeg
image_caption	SS Taiping - Fitted out for wartime merchant marine service
section2	{{Infobox ship/career
name	Taiping
builder	Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong
yard_number	619
launched	11 June 1925
owner	Australian Oriental Line
fate	Broken up in 1961
section3	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
type	Passenger-cargo
length	352.3 ft
beam	48.2 ft
hold_depth	23.7 ft
propulsion	Triple expansion engine
speed	13 kn

with an Anti-Mine netting boom fitted to the bow. Circa 1944-1946

'*SS *Taiping''''' was a 4,324 ton steamship launched by the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong in 1925 for the Australian Oriental Line.

Design and construction

Taiping was the second of two sister passenger-cargo liners ordered in May 1924 from the Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company by the Australian Oriental Line, which was owned and managed by G. S. Yuill & Company, Sydney, New South Wales. With a tonnages of and , she was 352.3 ft long, had a beam of 48.2 ft and a depth of 23.7 ft. Three oil-fired boilers supplied steam at 200psi to a triple expansion steam engine with a rating of 638 NHP, driving a single propeller. Service speed was 13 knots.

Cargo capacity was , of which 400 tons was refrigerated. There was accommodation for 278 passengers (40 x 1st, 56 x 2nd class, 182 deck passengers)

The shipyard launched Taiping on 11 June 1925, but completion was delayed due to strikes by both port and shipyard workers.

Image:StateLibQld 1 79807 Taiping (ship).jpg|El Taiping c. 1935 File:StateLibQld 1 169579 Taiping (ship)(rotated cropped).jpg|El Taiping in 1953

Notes

References

"Lloyd's Register 1942-43". plimsollshipdata.
"Australian Orient Line". Flotilla Australia.
(16 May 1924). "New Ships - For Australian-Chinese Trade - Hongkong Contract". Daily Telegraph.
(1926). "Lloyd's Register of Shipping, Vol II Steamers and Motorships". Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
(28 August 1925). "Trade with East: New Steamers for Service". The Argus.
(10 July 1925). "Hongkong Strikes". Sydney Morning Herald.

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