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| Name |
Official number |
Flag |
IMO |
| NELLORE |
135325 |
GBR |
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| Year built |
Date launched |
Date completed |
| 1913 |
05/05/1913 |
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| Vessel type |
Vessel description
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| Passenger / Cargo Refrigerated
| Steel Screw Steamer 2 Masts |
| Builder |
Yard |
Yard no |
| Caird & Company, Greenock |
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324 |
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| Tonnage |
Length |
Breadth |
Depth |
Draft |
| 6853 grt / 4250nrt / |
450.0 ft |
52.2 ft |
30.6 ft |
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| Engine builder |
Caird & Company, Greenock |
| Engine detail |
2-Screws. 2xQ4Cyl. (19", 27", 38.5" & 56" x 48") 700nhp, 4500ihp. 14 knots.
3 cylindrical steel boilers 215 lb/sq.in. |
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| First owner |
First port of register |
Registration date |
| Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London - Isaac Mann Shields, manager. |
Greenock |
24/06/1913 |
| Other names |
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| Subsequent owner and registration history |
12/1920 Frank Rirchie designated manager.
10/1929 The Eastern & Australian Steamship Co. Ltd., London (The Earl of Inchcape, manager)
07/1935 Kenneth Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, designated manager. |
| Vessel history |
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| Remarks |
| 94 passengers. |
| End year |
Fate / Status |
| 1944 |
Torpedoed 29/06/1944 |
| Disposal Detail |
| 29/06/1944 torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-18 in 07.51S x 75.20E, 400 miles east of Chagos Archipelago on passage Bombay for Sydney. |
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Image courtesy of : Green Collection – State of Victoria Library
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