| Name: | KHERSON |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 19/10/1895 |
| Completed: | 05/1896 |
| Builder: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd |
| Yard: | Hebburn |
| Yard Number: | 331 |
| Dimensions: | 6438grt, 3022nrt, 471.0 x 54.2 x 34.1ft |
| Engines: | 2 x T3cyl (36, 57 & 92 x 54ins), 1800nhp |
| Engines by: | R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 19.5knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a; (1921: 137746) |
| History: | |
| 05/1896 | Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa |
| 02/09/1903 | Russian Imperial Navy - Siberian Flotilia; renamed LENA |
| 11/1906 | Russian Volunteer Fleet Association, Odessa; renamed KHERSON |
| 12/1920 | London Steamship & Trading Co Ltd, London; renamed RAETORIA |
| 27/10/1921 | Registered at Malta |
| 1923 | Soc Italiana Ernesto Breda, Milan |
| 2Q/1924 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Accommodation for 74 x 1st class, 59 x 3rd class & 1444 emigrants |
| Designed as an auxilliary warship | |
| Fitments provided for the installation of 3 x 4.7in QF guns & 12 x 3.3in guns | |
| 1903: Taken up by the Russian Navy for the war with Japan | |
| 10/1904 - 09/1905: Interned at San Francisco | |
| 27/03/1915: Requisitioned as Naval Transport N73 in the Black Sea Fleet | |
| 05/1918 to 1920: Russian Civil War, Russian White navy - Black Sea Fleet | |
| 14/11/1920: Evacuation of the Crimea to Istanbul | |
| 2Q/1924: Broken up at Venice |
Above photo as KHERSON is copyright of Newcastle City Libraries
Shields Daily Gazette, Monday, 21/10/1895