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Name: BOSNIA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 18/08/1898
Completed: 01/1899
Builder: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd
Yard: Jarrow
Yard Number: 733
Dimensions: 7436grt, 4820nrt, 485.0 x 57.4 x 32.7ft; (1907: 9683grt)
Engines: T3cyl (30, 50 & 83 x 60ins), 710nhp
Engines by: Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 13.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a
History:
01/1899 Hamburg-Amerika Linie, Hamburg
09/1914 Imperial German Navy
29/08/1920 The Shipping Controller (Macvicar, Marshall & Co Ltd), London
1922 Hadjee MH Nemazee, Hong Kong; renamed FRANGESTAN
1924 Oriental Navigation Co Ltd (H Nemazee), Hong Kong
02/04/1924 Sank
Comments: 1907: Rebuilt by Blohm & Voss at Hamburg & accommodation extended
09/1914: Requisitioned by the German Navy as a repair ship to 12/1918
02/04/1924: Burned and sank in the Red Sea, 190 miles S of Jeddah
On a voyage from Karachi & Bombay to Jeddah carrying pilgrims
and with a cargo of cotton for Genoa and Barcelona
All passengers and crew were rescued


Jarrow Express, Friday, 19/08/1898

Shields Daily News, Friday, 04/04/1924