SS Jeddah was a British-flagged Singaporean-owned passenger steamship. It was built in 1872 in Dumbarton, Great Britain, especially for the Hajj pilgrim trade, and was owned by Singapore-based merchant Syed Mahomed Alsagoff. In 1880, the officers onboard the Jeddah abandoned it when it listed and appeared to be sinking, leaving more than 700 passengers aboard.[2] The event later inspired the plot of Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim. The vessel was retrieved and continued to sail, later being renamed Diamond.
^"Letter to the editor : A Singapore Merchant". The Times (London). 17 August 1880.
^"REPORT of a Court of Inquiry held at Aden into the cause of the abandonment of the steamship "JEDDAH"". Plimsoll.org. British Department of Trade. Archived from the original on 6 September 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
SSJeddah was a British-flagged Singaporean-owned passenger steamship. It was built in 1872 in Dumbarton, Great Britain, especially for the Hajj pilgrim...
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south of Jeddah in the Shoiaba area, the water from the lagoon may cover the adjoining sabkhas as far as 3 km (2 mi), whereas north of Jeddah in the Al-Kharrar...
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