Name: | MATA HARI |
Type: | Passenger Cargo Ship |
Launched: | 03/03/1915 |
Completed: | 27/05/1915 |
Builder: | Charles Rennoldson & Co |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | 167 |
Dimensions: | 1020grt, 511nrt, 220.0 x 35.2 x 13.0ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (17.5, 29 & 47 x 30ins), 165nhp |
Engines by: | Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw, 9.0knots |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 134962 |
History: | |
27/05/1915 | British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, South Shields |
1924 | Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, South Shields |
01/09/1939 | The Admiralty |
1942 | Japanese Navy; renamed YUMIHARI |
27/12/1943 | Japanese Government; renamed NICHIRIN MARU |
02/03/1945 | Sank |
Comments: | Accommodation for 8 x cabin passengers and 645 x deck passengers |
Designed for operating on the Malayan feeder services | |
01/09/1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as an auxiliary patrol vessel | |
15/02/1942: Captured by Japanese forces 15 miles off Muntok, | |
on a voyage from Singapore to Batavia carrying refugees | |
02/03/1945: Sank in a US Navy air attack about 150 miles west of | |
Okinawa, in position 27.10N - 124.35E |
Above photo as MATA HARI is courtesy of Photoship