SS Khedive Ismail
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For the 1948–1956 cargo liner, see SS United Victory.
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 1922–1932, the Scottish William Hamilton & Co (1932–35), the Egyptian company KML 1935–1940 and the British Ministry of War Transport 1940–1944.
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Route | Valparaíso – Panama – New York (1922–32) |
Ordered | April 1920 |
Builder | Scotts Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Greenock |
Yard number | 516[1] |
Launched | 11 February 1922[1] |
Completed | October 1922 |
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Fate | Sunk, 12 February 1944 |
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Length | 422.8 ft (128.9 m) |
Beam | 56.2 ft (17.1 m) |
Draught | 28 ft 3 in (8.61 m) |
Depth | 30.4 ft (9.3 m) |
Decks | two |
Installed power | 1,469 NHP; 8,450 bhp (6,300 kW) |
Propulsion | four steam turbines; two screws |
Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
Crew | 187 (as troop ship) |
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Armament | DEMS (1940–44) |
Notes | sister ship: Mohamed Ali El-Kebir (formerly Teno) |
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