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MUNDRA (1920)

Service dates: 1920-1942

Official number: 144220

Shipping lines: BRITISH INDIA STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY LTD.

Ship type:


General Cargo Liner.


Career

30.06.1920
Launched.
23.09.1920
Completed as Mundra for British India Steam Navigation Company. Her sister was Masula.
11.05.1928
Suffered a fire in her cargo of gum, cottonseed and oilcake in No.3 hold on a voyage through the Mediterranean from Bombay to London. She was forced to put in to Malta. The blaze was not fully extinguished until the 19th, by which time some 2,700 tons of cargo had been affected.
15.12.1931
Collided in Northfleet Hope with the Latvian steamer Krivs while on her way north to Hull. The Krivs suffered considerable damage to the port side amidships but, although the Mundra put back to Tilbury that evening, her damage was confined to the stem plating above the waterline.
1936
Fitted with refrigerated chambers to assist their homeward loading from Australian ports - 583 cubic feet (20,600 cubic feet) refrigerated.
05.1940
Requisitioned for the Liner Division.
1941
Grounded 16km (10 miles) south of Madras but was able to be refloated with little damage.
20.05.1942
She was attacked in the Bay of Bengal by a four-engined aircraft (19°00’N-85°30’E) but reached port safely.
06.07.1942
En route from Calcutta to Durban with 8,100 tons of general cargo, she was sunk by torpedo and gunfire from the Japanese submarine I18 off Santa Lucia Bay, Natal (28°45’S-32°20’E). 94 were lost out of the 120 crew, 75 passengers and fifteen survivors from other ships on board.


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