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Name: BORNEO
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 23/05/1895
Completed: 08/1895
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 697
Dimensions: 4573grt, 2944nrt, 401.3 x 46.8 x 27.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (28, 46 & 77 x 54ins), 506nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 13.5knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 104287
History:
01/08/1895 Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London
1914 Kishimoto Shokai Goshi Kaisha, Dairen; renamed HARIMA MARU
1916 Kobe Sanbashi KK, Dairen
1917 Shinsan Kisen KK, Dairen
1921 The Spain & China Co Ltd, Peking & Hong Kong; renamed NEW CHINA
1922 Cia Naviera Mexicana SA, Tampico; renamed ANAHUAC
1923 Mexican Government – Dept of Free Ports
1925 Broken up
Comments: Accommodation for 49 x 1st Class & 48 x 2nd Class passengers
Employed on the Indian and Far Eastern services
1925: Broken up at San Francisco


Above photo as BORNEO is copyright of Royal Museums Greenwich - FC Gould collection