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Name: KARONGA
Type: Cargo Ship
Launched: 26/04/1907
Completed: 06/1907
Builder: Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd
Yard: Low Walker
Yard Number: 794
Dimensions: 4665grt, 2932nrt, 400.0 x 52.1 x 27.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (27, 45 & 75 x 48ins), 477nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 123850
History:
1907 Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd, North Shields
1914 Ellerman & Bucknall SS Co Ltd, North Shields
26/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 26/04/1917: Torpedoed & sunk by U-Boat U63 in the Straits of Messina,
2 miles SSE of Cape Schio on a voyage from Newport to Bombay.


Above photo courtesy of Clive Ketley