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SS Uganda (1952)
SS ''Uganda'' was British steamship that had a varied and notable career. She was built in 1952 as a passenger liner, and successively served as a cruise ship, hospital ship, troop ship and stores ship. She was laid up in 1985 and scrapped in 1992.
==Passenger liner==
Barclay Curle and Company of Whiteinch, Glasgow built ''Uganda'' for the British-India Steam Navigation Company (BI). She was a passenger and cargo liner with capacity for 167 first class and 133 tourist class passengers and of cargo. Her original tonnages were , and . Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company built her two Parsons steam turbines, which between them developed 12,300 shp.
''Uganda'' was launched on 15 January 1952, completed six months later and made her sea trials on 16 July. On trial she achieved a top speed of , but in service she normally cruised at . Her route was between London and East Africa, calling at Gibraltar, Naples, Port Said, Aden, Mombasa, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanga and Beira.〔
Increasing competition from civil aviation reduced the market for passenger sailings between Britain and East Africa, leading BI to withdraw ''Uganda'' from the route in 1967.
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