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ROHNA (1926)
Service dates: 1926-1943
Official number: 149745
Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.
Ship type:
Passenger/Cargo Ship.
Career
- 24.08.1926
- Launched.
- 04.11.1926
- Ran trials.
- 05.11.1926
- Delivered as Rohna for the British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd.
- 09.1939
- Requisitioned as a Personnel Ship. Her early service was mainly in Eastern waters.
- 1942
- Transferred to Mediterranean service.
- 1943
- Participated in the Sicilian landings.
- 25.11.1943
- Sunk by a guided missile, becoming the first merchant ship sunk in this way.