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MALOJA (1923)
Service dates: 1923-1954
Official number: 145437
Shipping lines: P&O STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
Ship type:
Passenger Liner.
Career
- 29.11.1918
- Ordered.
- 28.10.1920
- Keel laid.
- 19.04.1923
- Launched by Hon Elsie Mackay, daughter of P&O Chairman Lord Inchcape.
- 25.10.1923
- Ran trials and delivered as Maloja for The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company at a cost of £1,421,291.
- 02.11.1923
- Maiden sailing to Bombay.
- 18.01.1924
- London/Colombo/Melbourne/Sydney service.
- 11.1924
- Dockworkers strike delayed her departure and forced her to leave 6,000 tons of cargo in Australia.
- 03.1925
- Ran aground in Adelaide.
- 1930
- Fitted with Bauer-Wach exhaust turbines.
- 02.1931
- Fire in No.7 hold shortly after leaving Bombay for London.
- 01.1933
- Lost an anchor and 45 fathoms (82 metres) of chain when trying to load cargo from a lighter in Gibraltar Bay in severe weather.
- 12.1934
- Carried a record mail shipment of 1,285 tons (40 cubic feet).
- 11.09.1939
- Requisitioned by the Admiralty for service as an Armed Merchant Cruiser upon her arrival at Aden.
- 01.1940
- Joined Northern Patrols.
- 03.1940
- Intercepted German cargo ship La Coruna south of Iceland.
- 06.11.1941
- Returned to her owners for service as a troopship.
- 11.1942/12.1942
- Took part in North African landings.
- 15.01.1947
- Returned to her owners and reconditioned.
- 10.06.1948
- Re-entered commercial service.
- 08.1950
- Assisted with the repatriation of Dutch nationals expelled from Indonesia.
- 19.02.1954
- Last arrival at Tilbury.
- 02.04.1954
- Sold for £165,000 to British Iron and Steel Corporation (Salvage) Ltd.