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Name: HADRIAN
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 15/05/1923
Completed: 06/1923
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune Yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1146
Dimensions: 1853grt, 784nrt, 280.2 x 40.2 x 16.3ft
Engines: Q4cyl (24, 33, 48 & 71 x 45ins), 534nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 15.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 145531
History:
18/06/1923 Tyne-Tees Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle
1935 Khedivial Mail Steamship & Graving Dock Co Ltd (Lord E Hamilton, managers), London
1935 Renamed FOUADIEH
1956 Khedivial Mail Line, Alexandria; renamed ISIS
1961 United Arab Maritime Co, Alexandria
19/05/1966 Broken up
Comments: Built for the Newcastle to London service
Accommodation for 150 x 1st Class & 100 x 2nd Class passengers
19/05/1966: Broken up in Egypt


Above photo is courtesy of Photoship

Above photo is courtesy of Richard Cox

Shields Daily News, Wednesday, 16/05/1923