SS Taiping (1926)

Taiping in 1940.

History
Name| Taiping
Owner| Australian Oriental Line
Builder| Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong
Launched| 1926
Fate| Sold for scrap in 1961.
General characteristics
Length| 352.3 ft (107.4 m)[1]
Beam| 48.2 ft (14.7 m)
Draught| 23.7 ft (7.2 m)
Propulsion| Triple expansion engine
Speed| 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)

SS Taiping was a 4,324 ton steamship built by Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Company, Hong Kong in 1926 for the Australian Oriental Line.[2]

## Operational history[edit]

Taiping was requisitioned by the Royal Navy as a Victualling Stores Issuing Ship in 1941. She was returned to her owners in early 1947.

## Fate[edit]

(Dubious, must be different vessel? If not, merge articles?) Taiping sank on 27 January 1949 after a collision with another vessel, killing over 1,500 passengers and crew, including over 1,000 refugees.

After the prolonged refit since 1947, the Taiping resumed service in September 1949. Eight years later, the ship's service was terminated in Hongkong, it was sold for scrap in 1961.

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ "Lloyd's Register 1942-43" (PDF). plimsollshipdata. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
2. ^ "Australian Orient Line". Flotilla Australia. Retrieved 12 September 2011.