SS Kalyan

SS Kalyan was a ship operated by the P & O shipping line between 1915 and 1932.

History
United Kingdom
Name	SS Kalyan
Operator	Royal Navy (1915—1919) P & O (1919–1932)
Builder	Cammell Laird, Birkenhead
Laid down	1914
Launched	24 September 1914
Out of service	1932
Fate	Sold to Japanese ship breakers, 12 February 1932
General characteristics
Type	Troop ship (1915–1918) Hospital ship (1918–1919) Passenger-cargo ship (1919–1932)
Tonnage	9,144 GRT
Length	480.6 ft (146.5 m)
Beam	58.2 ft (17.7 m)
Height	37.7 ft (11.5 m)
Propulsion	2 screws producing 7,040 hp (5.25 MW)
Notes	[1]

Wartime Service

Kalyan was used as a troop ship between England, Egypt and Salonika. She was then refitted as a hospital ship and dispatched to North Russia in October 1918. After a 12-day voyage she arrived in Archangel. There she acted as a temporary base hospital for British, Canadian, French, Italian, Chinese and Russian sick and wounded.^[2] The ship remained there throughout the winter, with ice having to be broken each day to prevent damage through "pinching".

She returned to Leith in June 1919. Many of her crew were Muslim Lascars who had problems during Ramadan 1919, as they were above the Arctic Circle and the sun did not set. General Ironside gave them dispensation from observing the Ramadan fast.^[3]

Sister ships

• SS Karmala
• SS Kashgar
• SS Kashmir
• SS Khiva
• SS Khyber