Name: | JUMNA |
Type: | Troopship |
Launched: | 24/09/1866 |
Completed: | 1866 |
Builder: | Palmers' Shipbuilding & Iron Co |
Yard: | Jarrow |
Yard Number: | 190 |
Dimensions: | 6211disp, 360.0 x 49.1 x 22.3ft |
Engines: | 3 x 1cyl, 4894ihp; (1873: C2cyl, 3044ihp) |
Engines by: | Maudslay, Sons & Field, London; (1873: Portsmouth Dockyard) |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 14.0knots. Also rigged as a Barque |
Construction: | Iron |
Armament: | 3 x 1 x 4pdr guns |
History: | |
1866 | British Royal Navy |
1893 | Renamed C110 |
07/1922 | Renamed OCEANIC |
07/1922 | AJ Hellyer |
No later history known | |
Comments: | A member of the Euphrates Class of troopships |
Jointly funded by the British Admiralty & the Indian Government | |
Designed to carry a battalion of infantry between the UK and India via the Suez Canal | |
1873: Engine compounded | |
1893: Converted to a coal hulk | |
07/1922: Probably sold for breaking up |
Illustrated London News, Saturday, 06/10/1866
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Newcastle Courant, Friday, 28/09/1866