For the 1948–1956 cargo liner, see SS United Victory.
History
Name
Aconcagua (1922–35)
Khedive Ismail (1935–44)
Namesake
Aconcagua mountain (1922–35)
Khedive Isma'il Pasha (1935–44)
Owner
Compañía Sud Americana de Vapores (1922–32)
William Hamilton & Co, Glasgow (1932–35)
Khedivial Mail Line (1935–36)
Pharaonic Mail Line SAE (1936–39)
Ministry of War Transport (1940–44)
Operator
Lowden Conner & Co, Liverpool (1932–35)
British-India Steam Navigation Company (1940–44)
Port of registry
Valparaíso (1922–32)
Liverpool (1933–34)
London (1934–35)
Alexandria (1935–39)
London (1940–44)
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
Identification
UK official number 162372
(1933–35; 1940–44)
code letters HBLP (1922–33)
Call sign LHWK (1933–34)
call sign MKGG (1934–35)
call sign SUBR (1935–39)
call sign GLNL (1940–44)
Fate
Sunk, 12 February 1944
General characteristics
Tonnage
7,290 GRT (1922–39)
7,513 GRT (1940–44)
tonnage under deck 4991
4,184 NRT
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)
Sensors and processing systems
direction finding equipment
echo sounding device
Armament
DEMS (1940–44)
Notes
sister ship: Mohamed Ali El-Kebir (formerly Teno)
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.
^ abCameron, Stuart; Biddulph, Bruce; Stewart, Gavin; Lucas, Gary; Asprey, David. "TSS Aconcagua". Clyde-built Ship Database. Archived from the original on 30 April 2005. Retrieved 12 January 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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