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Name: JUNA
Type: Passenger Cargo Ship
Launched: 16/05/1927
Completed: 16/06/1927
Builder: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Yard: Neptune yard, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1230
Dimensions: 2190grt, 905nrt, 280.0 x 43.6 x 18.8ft
Engines: 2 x T3cyl (16.5, 28.5 & 48 x 33ins), 469nhp
Engines by: Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd
Propulsion: 2 x Screws, 13.0knots
Reg Number: 149848
History:
06/1927 British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, London
08/1939 The Admiralty; renamed HMS FIONA
18/04/1941 Sank
Comments: 08/1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as an armed boarding vessel
1940: Used as a convoy service ship
18/04/1941: Sank after being bombed at Sidi Barrani, Egypt


Above photo as JUNA courtesy of Photoship

Shields Daily News, Tuesday, 17/05/1927