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UMETA (1914)
Service dates: 1914-1915
Official number: 136325
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 01.10.1914
- Launched.
- 15.10.1914
- Ran trials and delivered for British India Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £97,200. She and her sister Umaria made up the Company’s U-class.
- 10.1914
- Went into immediate service as an Indian Expeditionary Force transport.
- 01.12.1915
- She met up with the German submarine U33 180km (112 miles) east of Malta on her way from Port Said to Marseilles in ballast. She was fired upon and was sunk with the loss of two lives.