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ss INDIA
built by Caird & Company Greenock,
Yard No 281 Engines by the shipbuilder
Port of Registry: Greenock
Propulsion: Three cylinder triple expansion steam engine, 11000ihp, single screw, 18 knots
Launched: Wednesday, 15/04/1896
Built: 1896
Ship Type: Passenger Liner
Ship's Role: UK/India and Australia services
Tonnage: 7911 gross; 4185 net; 5515 dwt
Length: 499ft 11in
Breadth: 54ft 4in
Draught: 26ft 9in
Owner History:
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Status: Torpedoed & Sunk - 08/08/1915
Remarks:
15/04/1896: Launched by Miss Mary Anne Kendall, daughter of a director of her owners, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, London.
The first of five sisters, (followed by PERSIA, CHINA, EGYPT and ARABIA), she was the largest P&O vessel to date. The class were the last single~screw mail steamers built for the Company. Her equipment included a new type of insulated speaking tube 408ft long.
03/09/1896: Registered.
12/09/1896: Trials, delivered. She could carry 317 First Class and 152 Second Class passengers, or 2500 troops.
20/08/1900: First P&O ship to use the new harbour at Fremantle, replacing
Albany.
1903: Beat Norddeutscher Lloyd’s FREIDRICH DER GROSSE from the Red Sea
to Australia by no less than 24 hours.
1912: Insulated cargo capacity removed.
1914: Left in P&O service at the outbreak of war. Carried Admiral Sturdee
home from Gibraltar after the Battle of the Falklands.
13/03/1915: Hired by the Admiralty for service as an armed merchant cruiser,
and served in the 10th Cruiser Squadron.
08/08/1915: Torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U22 off the island
of Helligvaer, near Bodo, Norway, with the loss of 10 officers and
150 ratings. INDIA had stopped to investigate a suspected blockade~runner.
The surviving 22 officers and 119 men were taken to Narvik by the steamer GOTALAND and HM armed trawler SAXON.
Previous update by Paul Strathdee
Previous update by Bruce Biddulph
Previous update by John Newth
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Last updated: by Bruce Biddulph from the original records by Stuart Cameron
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