SS Cathay explained

SS Cathay was the name of a number of ships, including:

• served with P&O until sold in 1890.^[1]
• SS Cathay, launched in 1924, served with P&O until bombed and sunk in 1942.^[2]
• SS Cathay, launched in 1942 as Empire Archer, renamed Cathay in 1959 and operated by the Cathay Shipping Corporation, Panama and scrapped in 1963.
• , completed for Compagnie Maritime Belge in 1957 as Baudouinville, withdrawn 1960, renamed Cathay in 1961 and operated by P&O. Transferred in 1969 to P&O subsidiary Eastern & Australian Steamship Company, (E&A). Withdrawn December 1975. Eventually passed to People's Republic of China as Kengshin, later Shanghai. Fate uncertain. Sister ship was built as CMB's Jadotville in 1956, also transferred 1961 to P&O then to E&A (1970). Withdrawn 1975, later scrapped Taiwan.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company / P&O Line . The Ships List . 2 December 2016.
2. Web site: Launched 1924: ss CATHAY . https://web.archive.org/web/20040929092130/http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=4063 . usurped . 29 September 2004 . Shipping Times . 4 January 2009.
3. The Last Blue Water Liners by William H. Miller, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1986 (pages 44-45,203)