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{{Infobox ship |+{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:Mactan—AWM303558.jpg |Ship caption=Aerial starboard side view of the American hospital ship, Sydney, NSW. 23 April 1942. |module= |module2= |} SS Mactan was launched 28 December 1898 as the passenger/cargo ship North Lyell for North Mount Lyell Copper Co.Ltd. intended for service between the west coast of Tasmania and Melbourne. The company no longer needed the ship on delivery in 1899 with resulting sale to Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd. and renaming as Moura. In 1915 upon sale to the Douglas Steamship Company, Ltd. of Hong Kong she was renamed Hai Hong. Upon sale to Philippine operators in 1928 the ship gained the final name Mactan.

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  • SS Mactan (1898)
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  • {{Infobox ship |+{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:Mactan—AWM303558.jpg |Ship caption=Aerial starboard side view of the American hospital ship, Sydney, NSW. 23 April 1942. |module= |module2= |} SS Mactan was launched 28 December 1898 as the passenger/cargo ship North Lyell for North Mount Lyell Copper Co.Ltd. intended for service between the west coast of Tasmania and Melbourne. The company no longer needed the ship on delivery in 1899 with resulting sale to Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd. and renaming as Moura. In 1915 upon sale to the Douglas Steamship Company, Ltd. of Hong Kong she was renamed Hai Hong. Upon sale to Philippine operators in 1928 the ship gained the final name Mactan.
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Ship operator
  • Compañía Marítima, Fernandez Bros, Manila
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  • yes
Ship completed
  • February 1899
Ship owner
  • Compañía Marítima
  • Douglas Steamship Company
  • Union Steamship Company
Ship route
  • Manila, Cebu, Dumaguete, Cagayan, Dipolog, Zamboanga, Jolo, Zamboanga, Cotabato
Ship fate
  • Scrapped 1956 in Hong Kong
Ship builder
  • Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Ltd., Newcastle
Ship registry
  • United States
Ship yard number
  • 688(xsd:integer)
Ship propulsion
  • two sets, 4 crank, triple expansion engines, twin screw
Ship launched
  • --12-28
Ship Name
  • Hai Kong
  • Mactan
  • Moura
  • North Lyell }
Ship speed
  • 10(xsd:integer)
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  • {{Infobox ship |+{{Infobox ship image |Ship image=File:Mactan—AWM303558.jpg |Ship caption=Aerial starboard side view of the American hospital ship, Sydney, NSW. 23 April 1942. |module= |module2= |} SS Mactan was launched 28 December 1898 as the passenger/cargo ship North Lyell for North Mount Lyell Copper Co.Ltd. intended for service between the west coast of Tasmania and Melbourne. The company no longer needed the ship on delivery in 1899 with resulting sale to Union Steamship Company of New Zealand Ltd. and renaming as Moura. In 1915 upon sale to the Douglas Steamship Company, Ltd. of Hong Kong she was renamed Hai Hong. Upon sale to Philippine operators in 1928 the ship gained the final name Mactan. As Mactan the ship made news and history during the first months of war in the Pacific 1941-1942 as the first hospital ship, under charter to the American Red Cross through its Philippine Red Cross representative, in the Southwest Pacific Area. On a single voyage as the improvised hospital ship Mactan she evacuated 224 critically wounded patients, "the worst cases," along with a number of Filipino doctors and nurses serving with the Army, a U.S. Army doctor and two Army nurses from the burning city of Manila just prior to its occupation by Japanese troops.
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