SS Mactan was launched on 28 December 1898 as the passenger and cargo ship North Lyell for the North Mount Lyell Copper Company, intended for the west coast of Tasmania to Melbourne run. The company no longer needed her on delivery in 1899, so she was sold to the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand and renamed Moura, then in 1915 to the Douglas Steamship Company of Hong Kong as Hai Hong, and in 1928 to Philippine owners as Mactan. In the first weeks of the Pacific war she became the improvised hospital ship that, chartered by the American Red Cross, evacuated 224 critically wounded patients from Manila before the Japanese occupation. She was built by Armstrong Whitworth at Low Walker and was scrapped in Hong Kong in 1956.
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Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Ltd., Newcastle
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Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Ltd., Newcastle
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SS Mactan was launched 28 December 1898
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as the passenger/cargo ship North Lyell
Fate
The ship was scrapped in Hong Kong in 1956.
Infobox: builder
Armstrong Whitworth & Co., Ltd., Newcastle
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as the passenger/cargo ship North Lyell
In Group: General Cargo and Coastal Ships, Commercial service, interisland
Service in the Philippines was as an inter-island vessel
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