Everything about Ophir Ship totally explained
The
SS Ophir was a British steel twin-screw
ocean liner owned by the Orient Steamship Co. of London, which was employed on the company's London/Aden/Colombo/Australia service from the 1890s until 1915 when she was requisitioned by the Admiralty and saw three years' service as an amed merchant cruiser. She was returned to the owners in 1918 but was never refitted, being broken up in 1922.
One appreciative passenger was "the Welsh Swagman"
Joseph Jenkins who embarked at Melbourne on 24 November, 1894, bound for Tilbury Docks in a second-class cabin at the fare of £26 15s 6d. When he first saw the vessel, it appeared so huge that he wrote "it is a wonder to me that it would move".. Jenkins, a noted diarist, proceeded to record in detail the 103-day voyage passing through the new
Suez Canal.
In 1901, the Ophir conveyed the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to Australia to open the Federal Parliament in Melbourne
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