Built under yard no 477 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co., Ltd. Middlesbrough for the Imperial Direct West India Mail Service Co., Ltd. (Elder, Dempster & Co.), Bristol.
22 March 1901, launched under the name PORT ANTONIO, named after a small port on the north-side of Jamaica. I have been many times in this port with a vessel loading tropical fruits, mostly bananas.
Tonnage 4.458 gross, 2.482 net, dim 112.83 x 14.17 x 6.7m. She was a sister ship of the PORT ROYAL.
Two triple expansion steam engines, manufactured by Richardson, Westgarth & Co., Middlesbrough, 799 nhp, speed 14 knots, twin screws.
Passenger accommodation 100 first and 50 2nd class.
Used in the Avonmouth-West Indies service.
1911 Sold to Hadji Ibrahim Mani Zade, Constantinople, Turkey, renamed RECHID PACHA.
The same year sold to Administration de Nav. & Vapeur Ottomane, Constantinople not renamed.
Used in the Black Sea passenger service.
1914-1919 Hospital ship or transport, both are given in the Turkish Navy list.
1924 Transferred to Administration de Nav. & Vapeur Turque, Istanbul.
1929 Sold to Turkiye Seyrisefain Idaresi, Istanbul, renamed RESIT PASA.
1934 Transferred to the Turkish Navy, in use as an accommodation ship, a reported conversion to a submarine tender never took place.
1940 Broken up at Gülcük. (other sources gives 1940 removed from service and sold for scrap in 1953)
Turkey 2001 250.000 L, sg? Scott?
Source http://www.byegm.gov.tr/YAYINLARIMIZ/ne ... ct/n11.htm
Merchant Fleets Elder Dempster Lines by Duncan Haws. Register of Merchant Ships completed in 1901.