Name: | INANDA |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 24/02/1925 |
Completed: | 05/1925 |
Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
Yard: | Wallsend |
Yard Number: | 1259 |
Dimensions: | 5985grt, 3746nrt, 407.0 x 52.2 x 28.5ft |
Engines: | Q4cyl (26, 36, 52 & 76 x 54ins), 606nhp |
Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 14.0knots |
Reg Number: | 147310 |
History: | |
27/04/1925 | Charente Steamship Co Ltd (T & J Harrison), Liverpool |
1941 | Ministry of War Transport (T & J Harrison); renamed EMPIRE EXPLORER |
09/07/1942 | Sank |
Comments: | Accommodation provided for 102 x 1st Class passengers |
07/09/1940: Bombed & sunk by German air attack in Royal Albert Dock, London | |
Subsequently raised & rebuilt for the Ministry of War Transport | |
09/07/1942: Sank after being torpedoed and shelled by U-Boat U575, | |
5 miles north of Tobago in position 11.40N - 60.55W | |
On a voyage from Demerara to Barbados & the UK with a cargo of pitch, sugar & mail |
Above photo as INANDA is courtesy of Stuart Smith
Above photo as INANDA is courtesy of Photoship
Shields Daily News, Wednesday, 25/02/1925