Collections
Search our collections for images, objects and ship records. Get started with the search box or browse what you can see. You can also find out about our collections and how to access them.
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.