History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | SS Sagaing |
Namesake | Sagaing |
Owner | P Henderson & Company |
Operator | P Henderson & Company (via the British and Burmese Steam Navigation Co.) |
Port of registry | Glasgow |
Route | Varied. Usually Liverpool or Glasgow to Rangoon |
Builder | William Denny and Brothers |
Yard number | 1167 |
Launched | 12 December 1924 |
Completed | 13 March 1925 |
Identification | Official number: 148845 |
Fate | Attacked and destroyed by aircraft from the Kidō Butai on 9 April 1942; hulk deliberately sunk on 24 August 1943 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steamship |
Tonnage | 7,994 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 454.6 feet (138.56 m) |
Beam | 61.2 feet (18.65 m) |
Draft | 27.9 feet (8.50 m) |
Depth | 34.6 feet (10.55 m) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | Single shaft, single screw |
Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) |
Capacity | 137 |
Crew | 120+ |
SS Sagaing was a twin-hatched passenger and cargo steamship that regularly plied a route connecting Liverpool, Glasgow and Rangoon in the first half of the 20th century. It was attacked and partially destroyed at Trincomalee Harbour by aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1942, as part of the Easter Sunday Raid on Ceylon. The hulk was sunk a year later to act as a pier but was raised in 2018 after a 5-month operation by the Sri Lanka Navy, moved out of the harbour area, and resunk.