HMS Kashmir (1915)

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Kashmir
History
United Kingdom
NameSS Kashmir
NamesakeKashmir
Owner
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Port of registryGreenock, UK
Ordered1914?
BuilderCaird & Company, Greenock
Cost£185,396
Yard number329
Laid down1914?
Launched16 February 1915
Completed2 April 1915
FateRequisitioned by the
Admiralty
, December 1916
History
United Kingdom
NameHMS Kashmir
AcquiredDecember 1914
FateReturned by the
Admiralty
, March 1919
History
NameSS Kashmir
OwnerPeninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Port of registryGreenock, UK
AcquiredMarch 1919
FateSold for scrap, 31 July 1932
General characteristics
TypeCargo liner
Tonnage
Length480 ft (146.3 m)
Beam58 ft 3 in (17.8 m)
Draught33 ft 8 in (10.3 m)
Installed power7,000 ihp (5,200 kW)
Propulsion
  • 2 × screw propellers
  • 2 ×
    quadruple-expansion steam engines
Speed14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Capacity
  • Passengers:
  • 78 1st class
  • 68 2nd class

HMS Kashmir was a British

Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
after the war and remained in service until 1932.

Description

Kashmir had an

quadruple-expansion steam engines, each driving one propeller. The engines had a total power of 14,000 indicated horsepower (10,000 kW)[1] to give a top speed of 14 to 15 knots (26 to 28 km/h; 16 to 17 mph).[2] She had a capacity of 78 first-class and 68 second-class passengers.[1]

Construction and career

Named for the Indian region of

Admiralty in December 1916 for service as a troopship. She first served in the Mediterranean and then in the North Atlantic.[2]

In September 1918, Kashmir was assigned to Convoy HX-50, ferrying American troops from New York to Liverpool, her third such trip. During the voyage several hundred soldiers came down with the

port side amidships, a few miles off the rocky coast of Islay.[3]

The collision badly damaged Kashmir's bow and the heavy seas and high winds quickly separated the two ships. They spun the liner around so that she was facing north, into a

head sea. In an effort to keep the bow out of the water as much as possible, the captain ordered all of her passengers to the stern and proceeded to Glasgow where she disembarked her passengers.[4]

After she was repaired, Kashmir was loaned to the French to repatriate prisoners of war and then to transport British troops between France and the UK. During one such voyage, her port propeller fell off while leaving Le Havre in January 1919. The ship was returned to her owners in March 1919. After she was restored to her prewar configuration, Kashmir was assigned to the London-Bombay-Far East run for the next decade.[5]

In February 1929, she was rammed by the Belgian collier SS Alexander I and driven aground in the Scheldt estuary. Kashmir was refloated and repaired, but she was later deemed obsolete by her owners and sold for £14,400 to the Japanese scrap dealer T. Okushoji on 31 July 1932.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Clydebuilt Database
  2. ^ a b Scott, p. 43
  3. ^ Scott, pp. 61–62, 67–75
  4. ^ Scott, p. 158
  5. ^ a b Scott, p. 159

Bibliography

  • Scott, R. Neil (2012). Many Were Held by the Sea: The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield.
    ISBN 978-1-4422-1342-5
    .
  • "SS Kashmir". Clydebuilt Ships Database. Archived from the original on 7 September 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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