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Taiping in 1940.
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History | |
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Name | Taiping |
Owner | Australian Oriental Line |
Builder | Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong |
Launched | 1926 |
Fate | Sunk after collision with the cargo ship Chienyuan in January 1949, wreck raised and went back into service on September 1949, sold for scrap in 1961. |
General characteristics | |
Length | 352.3 ft (107.4 m)[1] |
Beam | 48.2 ft (14.7 m) |
Draught | 23.7 ft (7.2 m) |
Propulsion | Triple expansion engine |
Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
SS Taiping was a 4,324 ton steamship built by Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong in 1926 for the Australian Oriental Line.[2]