page_title: SS Dongola
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: SS Dongola / Construction
caption_attribution_description: HM Transport Dongola, also known as SS Dongola when not in military use
context_page_description: The SS Dongola, launched 14 September 1905, was a steam-powered passenger liner of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, at various times used as a Royal Navy troop ship and hospital ship.
  Except during the First World War, the ship's main use was as a passenger liner on the routes from England through the Suez Canal to India and the Far East, and she was fast enough to carry mail.
  P & O sold the ship in June 1926 to be broken up for scrap.
context_section_description: Dongola was ordered by P & O from the shipbuilders Barclay, Curle and Co. of Whiteinch on the River Clyde, and work was reported to be in hand in March 1905. She was one of four ships built in 1905 and 1906 called the "D" class, the others being Delhi, Devanha, and Delta. The ship was launched on Thursday, 14 September 1905, and named Dongola in memory of an Anglo-Egyptian victory on 21 September 1896 in the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan.
  The ship's dimensions were: length 470 feet; beam 56 feet 3 inches; draught 27 feet 8 inches; gross tonnage 8038; net tonnage 4723. After trials and fitting out, she was  delivered to her owners on 15 November 1905, at a price of £160,167, equivalent to £17,325,804 in 2019.
  Dongola had a twin-screw steam-powered quadruple-expansion engine, also built by Barclay, Curle and Co., generating 1,252 nominal horsepower and giving the ship a top speed of 15.5 knots.  As built, she had accommodation for 243 passengers, 163 in First Class cabins and 80 in Second Class, and had a cargo capacity of 13,189 cubic yards. 
  The ship was designed to be crewed by 
  236 officers and men, 61 on deck, 91 in the engine room, and 84 in the purser's department.
caption: Dongola about 1906
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