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| - SS Antenor was built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Ltd at Jarrow-on-Tyne in England with a gross registered tonnage (GRT) of 11,174, a length of 487ft 8in, a beam of 62ft 2in and a service speed of 15.5 knots. She was built for Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool, who owned various shipping lines including the Ocean Steam Ship Company (OSSC), Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Maatschappij Oceaan (NSMO), The China Mutual Steam Navigation Company (CMSNC) and Blue Funnel. She was launched on 30 September 1924 for deployment with the China Mutual Steam Navigation Company. She commenced her maiden voyage on 15 January 1925 from Liverpool to the Far East.
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| - SS Antenor was built by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Ltd at Jarrow-on-Tyne in England with a gross registered tonnage (GRT) of 11,174, a length of 487ft 8in, a beam of 62ft 2in and a service speed of 15.5 knots. She was built for Alfred Holt and Company of Liverpool, who owned various shipping lines including the Ocean Steam Ship Company (OSSC), Nederlandsche Stoomvaart Maatschappij Oceaan (NSMO), The China Mutual Steam Navigation Company (CMSNC) and Blue Funnel. She was launched on 30 September 1924 for deployment with the China Mutual Steam Navigation Company. She commenced her maiden voyage on 15 January 1925 from Liverpool to the Far East. By the thirties she was running on the Blue Funnel Eastern Service. A timetable for the Eastern Service, issued in September 1937 for the period September 1937 - October 1938, lists the ports of call as: Liverpool, Marseilles, Port Said, Colombo, Penang, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Yokohama. Kobe and Aden were additional ports of call on the return voyage. Her sister ships on the service were SS Aeneas, SS Hector (1924), SS Patroclus (1923) and SS Sarpedon (1923). In November 1938 the Antenor carried five Giant Pandas, caught in Sichuan Province in China, from Hong Kong to Europe. During the voyage some of the pandas broke out of their cage on the poop deck. The Pandas were the first to be brought to Europe in captivity.
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