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MATA HARI (1915)

Service dates: 1915-1942

Official number: 134962

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.; P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

03.03.1915
Launched.
27.05.1915
Registered.
05.06.1915
Delivered as Mati Hari for British India Steam Navigation Company.
02.07.1915
Engine trouble in Gibraltar.
10.09.1915
Engine trouble in Colombo.
15.10.1915
Handed over to BI in Singapore.
20.08.1924
Ownership transferred to P&O.
01.09.1939
Requisitioned by the Admiralty.
12.1941
Involved in various military operations.
08.02.1942
Arrived in Singapore after being dive bombed.
12.02.1942
Captured by Japanese forces.
28.02.1942
Bombed and sunk by the Japanese, later refloated and commissioned as Yumihara.
27.12.1943
Released to Japanese civilian owners, renamed Nichirin Maru.
02.03.1945
Bombed and sunk by US aircraft.


Ship technical details (PDF)