Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,819 pages of information and 247,161 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

SS Ranpura

From Graces Guide

Owned by the Orient Steam Navigation Co.

"The SS Ranpura was a British passenger and cargo carrying ocean liner built by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co at Newcastle upon Tyne for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co in 1924. She was the first of the P&O 'R' class liners that had much of their interiors designed by Lord Inchcape's daughter Elsie Mackay. She was launched September 13, 1924 and sponsored by C.C. Straker, wife of the chairman of Hawthorn Leslie and Company."[1]

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