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NAGPORE (1920)
Service dates: 1920-1942
Official number: 144054
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 29.04.1919
- Ordered. A B-class standard-design ship, she was built for The Shipping Controller, London, and purchased by P&O for £218,586.
- 24.06.1919
- Keel laid.
- 06.06.1920
- Launched.
- 01.09.1920
- Ran trials and delivered as Nagpore for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. Nagpore (or Nagpur) was capital of the Central Provinces of British India.
- 10.1926
- Fired on by Chinese troops when proceeding down the Yangtze River from Hankow to Shanghai, but not hit.
- 26.08.1939
- Fire in No.3 hold while in position 18°40’N-112°30’E while en route from Singapore to Saigon.
- 27.08.1939
- Arrived off Hong Kong where she was attended by a fire float before docking to discharge damaged cargo.
- 29.08.1939
- Resumed her voyage.
- 28.10.1942
- Torpedoed by the German submarine U509 and then sunk by torpedo and gunfire from the German submarine U203 off the Canary Islands (31°30’N-19°36’W). She was sailing in Convoy SL125 on a voyage from Durban to Manchester with 7,000 tons of general cargo. The Captain and Chief Steward were lost with the ship, 60 crew were picked up by other members of the convoy and the remaining 19 in number 4 boat landed at Puerto Orotava in the Canary Islands twelve days later.