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The SS Chusan was a British ocean liner and cruise ship, built for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O)'s Indian and Far East Service in 1950. She was named after Chusan, a small island off China. A smaller version of the SS Himalaya, the ''Chusan'' had a gross register tonnage of 24,215; and a capacity of 1,565 passengers and crew. She was built as a replacement for the ship RMS Viceroy of India, lost in the Second World War. She was long. The Chusan is said to have brought new standards of shipboard luxury to India and the Far East.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= SS Chusan (1950) )〕 She was the last passenger liner built for P & O by Vickers-Armstrongs. Chusan entered service in 1950, with her maiden voyage from London, England to Bombay, India. But she first made two "shake down" "all first class trips", one of a week's length and the other of a fortnight, sailing to Lisbon, Casablanca and Madeira. For most of her working life, she carried passengers between London, Bombay, and Japan, but from 1963 also operated to Sydney, Australia. In 1973, she retired from service and was sold to be scrapped at Chou’s Iron and Steel Company Ltd. in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.〔 ==Dimensions== *The Chusan was long, roughly the same length as two football fields laid end-to-end,〔Calculated by assuming a football field is 120 yards (360 feet) long〕 and had a beam (breadth) of . *Her draught (vertical distance of ship from waterline to keel) was . She was powered by twin propellers. *Two masts, one at the bow and one aft, were present on the Chusan. She had one funnel. *The Chusan carried eighteen lifeboats, nine on each side. *Her capacity was 988 passengers and 577 crew, for a total of 1,565 people, though the passenger capacity was changed twice between the two classes (first class and tourist/second class). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SS Chusan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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