 | It has been suggested that this article be merged with Taiping (steamer). (Discuss) Proposed since August 2024. |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:VSIS_Taiping.jpeg) 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]
- ^ "Lloyd's Register 1942-43" (PDF). plimsollshipdata. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
- ^ "Australian Orient Line". Flotilla Australia. Retrieved 12 September 2011.