الباخرة الخديوي إسماعيل
| Career | |
|---|---|
| Name: |
Aconcagua (1922–35) Khedive Ismail (1935–44) |
| Namesake: |
Aconcagua mountain (1922–35) Khedive Isma'il Pasha (1935–44) |
| Owner: |
Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (1922–32) |
| Operator: |
Lowden Conner & Co, Liverpool (1932–35) |
| Port of Registry: |
Valparaíso (1922–32) |
| Route: | Valparaíso – Panama – New York (1922–32) |
| Ordered: | April 1920 |
| Builder: | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock |
| Yard number: | 516 |
| Launched: | 11 February 1922 |
| Completed: | |
| Identification: |
UK official number 162372 |
| Fate: | |
| السمات العامة | |
| الوزن: |
7٬290 GRT (1922–39) 7٬513 GRT (1940–44) tonnage under deck 4991 نطقب:NRT |
| الطول: | 422.8 قدم (128.9 م) |
| Beam: | 56.2 قدم (17.1 م) |
| Draught: | 28 قدم 3 بوصة (8.61 م) |
| العمق: | 30.4 قدم (9.3 م) |
| Decks: | two |
| القوة المركـَّبة: | 1,469 NHP; 8,450 bhp |
| الدفع: | four steam turbines; twin screws |
| السرعة: | |
| الطاقم: | 187 (as troop ship) |
| المجسات والأنظمة المعالجة: |
direction finding equipment echo sounding device |
| التسليح: | DEMS (1940–44) |
| ملاحظات: | sister ship: (formerly Teno) |
SS Khedive Ismail, formerly SS Aconcagua, was a turbine steamship that was built in 1922 as an ocean liner, converted into a troop ship in 1940 and sunk by a Japanese submarine in 1944 with great loss of life. She was owned by the Chilean company CSAV 1922–32, the Scottish William Hamilton & Co (1932–35), the Egyptian company KML 1935–40 and the British Ministry of War Transport 1940–44.
الباخرة الخديوي إسماعيل SS Khedive Ismail أُغرقها اليابانيون وعلى متنها 1,324 جندي من الفصيلة 301 مدفعية شرق أفريقيا في طريقها من ممباسا إلى كولومبو، فيخمسة فبراير 1944
الخديوي إسماعيل
In 1935 the Khedivial Mail Steamship and Graving Dock Company of Alexandria, Egypt bought both Aconcagua and Teno. The company, which traded as the Khedivial Mail Line (KML), renamed each ship after a former Khedive of Egypt. Aconcagua became Khedive Ismail, after Isma'il Pasha who reigned 1863–79. KML and operated services linking Alexandria across the Mediterranean Sea with Cyprus, Piraeus, Malta and Marseille. In 1936 the company was reconstituted as the Pharaonic Mail Line, but continued trading as the KML.
Although Egypt was supposedly independent, in practice the British Empire controlled the country. In 1940 the UK Ministry of War Transport requisitioned seven KML ships and placed two of them, Khedive Ismail and Mohamed Ali El-Kebir, under the management of the British-India Steam Navigation Company. The two ships were converted into troop ships, which slightly increased their tonnage. Khedive Ismail's gross register tonnage (GRT) was increased from 7,290 to 7,513 tons.
Mohamed Ali El-Kebir was sunk in August 1940 her first troop voyage, en route under Royal Navy escort from Avonmouth to Gibraltar. By then Khedive Ismail was in the Indian Ocean to bring Empire troops the Egypt. From then until April 1941 she carried troops in convoys from Bombay, Cape Town, Mombasa and Port Sudan to Suez and Port Said.
فقدانها
Onخمسة February 1944 Khedive Ismail left Mombasa bound for Colombo carrying 1,324 passengers including 996 members of the East African Artillery's 301st Field Regiment, 271 Royal Navy personnel, 19 WRNS, 53 nursing sisters and their matron, nine members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry and a war correspondent, Kenneth Gandar-Dower. She was part of Convoy KR 8, she was carrying the Convoy Commodore, and it was her fifth convoy on that route. It was escorted by the ، طراز heavy cruiser and -class destroyers and .
Of 1,511 people aboard Khedive Ismail, only 208 men andستة women survived the sinking and subsequent battle. 1,220 men and 77 women were killed. The sinking was the third largest loss of life from Allied shipping in الحرب العالمية الثانية and the largest loss of servicewomen in the history of the Commonwealth of Nations.
المراجع
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المصادر
- Crabb, Brian James (1997). Passage to Destiny: The Story of the Tragic Loss of the SS Khedive Ismail. Stamford: Paul Watkins. ISBN .
- de la Pedraja, Rene (1998). Oil and Coffee: Latin American Merchant Shipping from the Imperial Era to the 1950s. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN .
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- Talbot-Booth, E.C. (1936). Ships and the Sea (Third ed.). London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. Ltd.
وصلات خارجية
- Hackett, Bob; Kingsepp, Sander (2010). "HIJMS Submarine I-27: Tabular Record of Movement". Combined Fleet.
- "Khedive Ismail SS". Roll of Honour.
- Stratford, Stephen. "Women's Transport Service (FANY)". Remembrance & Memorials. British Military & Criminal History 1900 to 1999.
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