SS Yoma
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SS Yoma was a British passenger liner that served as a troop ship in the Second World War. She was built in Scotland in 1928, and from then until 1940 Yoma ran a regular route between Glasgow in Scotland and Rangoon in Burma[7] via Liverpool, Palma, Marseille and Egypt.[4] She became a troop ship in 1941 and was sunk with great loss of life in the Mediterranean in 1943.
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Yoma |
Owner | |
Operator | P Henderson & Co[3] |
Port of registry | Glasgow[3] |
Route | (1928–39): Glasgow – Liverpool – Palma – Marseille – Egypt – Rangoon[4] |
Builder | W Denny & Bros, Dumbarton[3] |
Launched | 2 August 1928 |
Completed | 1928[3] |
Out of service | 17 June 1943[5] |
Identification |
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Fate | Sunk by torpedo[5] |
General characteristics | |
Type | passenger ship;[4] troopship[5] |
Tonnage | |
Length | 460.3 ft (140.3 m)[3] |
Beam | 61.2 ft (18.7 m)[3] |
Depth | 31.0 ft (9.4 m)[3] |
Installed power | 550 NHP[3] |
Propulsion | single screw driven by quadruple expansion steam engine; augmented from 1939 by a reduction-geared low-pressure steam turbine[3] |
Speed | 14 knots (26 km/h)[6] |
Crew | 160 + 8 DEMS gunners (1943)[5] |
Sensors and processing systems | wireless direction finding[3] |
Yoma was a ship of the Henderson Line of Glasgow. She was managed by P Henderson & Company and initially owned jointly by two other P Henderson companies: British and Burmese Steam Navigation Company Ltd and Burmah Steam Ship Company Ltd.[1] From 1934 the British and Burmese SN Co Ltd was Yoma's sole owner.[2]
Yoma was one of a family of similarly sized liners built for Henderson's by William Denny and Brothers of Dumbarton on the River Clyde. These were Amarapoora, Pegu, Kemmendine and Sagaing – completed in 1920, '21, '24 and '25 respectively.[7] Each was about 8,000 gross register tons (GRT) and carried cargo as well as passengers.[7]