London and Channel Islands Steamship Co (1920–34)[1]
Monroe Bros, Liverpool (1934–35)[6]
Khedivial Mail Line (1935)[2]
HE Ahmed Abboud Pasha (1935–36)[7]
Pharaonic Mail Lines SAE (1936–40)[3]
Ministry of War Transport (1940)[4]
Operator
Cheesewright & Ford (1920–34)[1]
Lord Ernest Hamilton (1934–35)[2]
General Steam Navigation Co (1940)[4]
Port of registry
London (1920–34)[1]
Alexandria (1935–39)
London (1940)
Builder
Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Wallsend[1]
Yard number
1159
Launched
27 September 1920[5]
Completed
November 1920[1]
Identification
UK official number 145082[1]
code letters KHDL (1920–33)[1]
Call sign MKGT (1933–34)[2]
call sign SUCL (1934–40)[3]
call sign MCDN (1940)[4]
Fate
Sunk by torpedo, 28 May 1940
General characteristics
Type
coaster
Tonnage
689 GRT, 355 NRT[1]
Length
173.5 ft (52.9 m)[1]
Beam
28.1 ft (8.6 m)[1]
Draught
13 ft 5 in (4.09 m)[1]
Depth
12.9 ft (3.9 m)[1]
Installed power
97 IHP[1]
Propulsion
3-cylinder triple-expansion steam engine;[1] single screw
Speed
8 knots (15 km/h)[8]
Armament
(as DEMS) 1 Lewis gun[8]
Armour
concrete slabs to protect the bridge from machine-gun fire[8]
SS Abukir was a British coastal steamship that was launched in 1920 as SS Island Queen and renamed in 1934 as SS Kyle Queen. In 1935 she was renamed Abukir and registered in Egypt. In May 1940 she was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea while evacuating UK and Belgian soldiers, airmen and civilians from Ostend on the last day of the Battle of Belgium.
^ abcdefghijklmnoLloyd's Register 1930.
^ abcdLloyd's Register 1934.
^ ab"Steamers & Motorships". Lloyd's Register of Shipping(PDF). London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1937. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
^ abc"Steamers & Motorships". Lloyd's Register of Shipping(PDF). London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1940. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
^Dehaene, M (3 March 2007). "8684 – Abukir". Épaves du Ponant (in French). ArcheoSousMarine. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
^ abLloyd's Register 1933.
^ ab"Steamers & Motorships". Lloyd's Register of Shipping(PDF). London: Lloyd's Register of Shipping. 1935. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
^ abc"Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood". The London Gazette. No. 34930. 23 August 1940. p. 5199. Retrieved 18 December 2013.
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