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MEGNA (1916)
Service dates: 1917-1935
Official number: 139157
Shipping lines: JAMES NOURSE LTD.
Ship type:
General Cargo Liner.
Career
- 29.06.1916
- Launched.
- 09.1916
- Completed as Megna for James Nourse Ltd after originally laid down for H Hogarth & Sons as Baron Inchcape. She cost £241,000.
- 19.11.1916/18.12.1916
- Requisitioned to carry coal.
- 28.05.1917/28.09.1917
- Requisitioned to carry sugar than coal.
- 29.09.1917/15.03.1919
- Taken up under the Liner Requisition Scheme.
- 20.11.1917
- Takeover of James Nourse Ltd by The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company agreed.
- 29.06.1922
- Suffered a fire in her cargo of rice when she was en route from Calcutta and Rangoon to the West Indies. She was forced to put in to Durban for repairs.
- 28.09.1935
- Grounded in a hurricane at Cienfuegos, Havana.
- 10.10.1935
- Refloated after 2,000 tons of cargo was discharged.
- 1935
- Sold to Atlanticos Steamship Company Ltd, Piraeus, Greece (Kulukundjs Bros, managers) and renamed Mount Atlas.
- 1939
- Sold to Yamashita Kisen KK, Kobe, Japan and renamed Kuwayama Maru.
- 21.02.1943
- Sunk by USS Thresher off Sumbawa (07°53’S-119°13’E).