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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| SUDAN |
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EGY |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1915 |
c1917 |
2/1921 |
| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| River Steamer Passenger
| Steel Paddle Steamer |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Bow, McLachlan & Co. Ltd., Paisley |
Thistle Yard |
315 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 600 grt / / |
236 ft |
32 ft |
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3.9 ft |
| Engine builder |
Bow, McLachlan & Co. Ltd., Paisley |
| Engine detail |
| T3cy 500ihp 9½kn |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Thomas Cook (Egypt) Ltd, London |
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| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
3/1950 HE Fouad Serag el Din Pacha (Minister of Finance, Sec Gen of Wafd Party), Cairo
c1953 Egyptian Government
1955 mng Eastmar Nile Cruises
19xx mng Club Méditerranée
19xx mng LTI Hotels.
2003 Voyageurs du Monde - mng |
| Vessel history |
for Cairo-Aswan cruises
by 1914 ordered from Bow McLachlan; sister of ARABIA (1911) and EGYPT (1907), built by Thornycroft
1914 construction halted during WW1
by 1918 hull at Cook's yard at Boulaq, Cairo, but engines and boilers put on hold
2/1921 (11/1921? 1922?) maiden voyage
1939-1945 moored at Cairo as an officers' club
1955 returned to cruising
19xx with Club Med as floating hotel at Luxor (but steam machinery maintained)
2003 in service Luxor-Aswan
2004 appeared as "Karnak" in film "Death on the Nile" |
| Remarks |
228ft lbp, 238ft loa.
80 passengers |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
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| Disposal detail |
| Active 2020 |
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