Engineering:SS Malakand (1905)
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| History | |
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| Namesake: | Malakand Agency |
| Owner: | Brocklebank Line |
| Builder: | Harland & Wolff |
| Yard number: | 373 |
| Launched: | 11 November 1905 |
| Completed: | 14 December 1906 |
| Fate: | Sunk 20 April 1917 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Cargo liner |
SS Malakand was a 7,653-gross register ton cargo liner built by Harland & Wolff in 1905 for the Brocklebank shipping line, the first of two Brocklebank Line ships named after the Malakand area of the Indian subcontinent.[1]
Malakand operated on a regular service between Liverpool, England , and Calcutta, India . During World War I, she was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 145 nautical miles (269 km) west of Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly ( [ ⚑ ] 49°20′N 10°00′W / 49.333°N 10°W), on 20 April 1917 by the Imperial German Navy submarine U-84 with the loss of one crew member.[1][2][3]
A replacement ship of the same name, SS Malakand, was launched in 1919.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "More information on the SS Malakand model". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20110725215117/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/agents/access/case3_moreinfo.html.
- ↑ "British Merchant Ships Lost to Enemy Action Part 2 of 3 - January-August 1917 in date order". Naval History. http://www.naval-history.net/WW1LossesBrMS1917.htm. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ↑ "Malakand". Uboat.net. http://uboat.net/wwi/ships_hit/3844.html. Retrieved 21 October 2012.
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