| Name: | PERSIA |
| Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
| Launched: | 17/11/1902 |
| Completed: | 11/05/1903 |
| Builder: | Wigham Richardson & Co |
| Yard: | Neptune Yard, Low Walker |
| Yard Number: | 396 |
| Dimensions: | 5895grt, 3779nrt, 8230dwt, 424.0 x 52.5 x 21.3ft |
| Engines: | Q4cyl (24, 34, 51 & 74 x 54ins), 533nhp |
| Engines by: | Wigham Richardson & Co, Low Walker |
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 12.3knots (trials) |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Reg Number: | n/a |
| History: | |
| 11/05/1903 | Lloyd Austriaco, Trieste, Austro Hungaria |
| 1919 | Lloyd Triestino, Trieste, Italy |
| 1925 | Renamed PERSIA L |
| 1926 | Broken up |
| Comments: | Contract price £77748; Profit £7870-3s-0d |
| Accommodation for 40 x 1st Class passengers | |
| Built for the Japan to China trade | |
| 08/1904: Seized by Russia outside Port Arthur, during Russo-Japanese war | |
| Searched, looted for mails and valuables and later released | |
| 24/08/1926: Caught fire off Boria Pagoda, south of Bombay | |
| On a voyage from Colombo to Karachi with a cargo of copra | |
| Towed into Bombay and subsequently broken up there |
Above photo as PERSIA courtesy of Photoship