SS Maloja
UK registered passenger steamship sunk by a mine off Dover / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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SS Maloja was an M-class passenger steamship of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. She was completed in 1911 and worked a regular route between Great Britain and India. In 1916 in the First World War she was sunk by a mine in the English Channel off Dover with the loss of 155 lives.
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Peninsula and Oriental line steamer Maloja | |
History | |
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Name | SS Maloja |
Owner | P&O Steam Navigation Co[1] |
Port of registry | ![]() |
Route | Tilbury – Bombay[1] |
Builder | Harland and Wolff Ltd, Belfast[1] |
Yard number | 414[2] |
Launched | 17 December 1910 |
Completed | 7 September 1911 |
Fate | Mined off Dover, 27 February 1916[1] |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | P&O M-class passenger liner[2] |
Tonnage | 12,431 GRT[1] |
Length | 550.4 ft (167.8 m)[2] |
Beam | 62.9 ft (19.2 m)[2] |
Depth | 34.4 ft (10.5 m)[2] |
Installed power | 1,164 NHP[2] |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph)[2] |
Capacity | 670 passengers[3] |
Crew | 301 (British officers & Lascar crew)[3] |
Armament | Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship |
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