SS Umona
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SS Umona was a British cargo liner. She was built at Sunderland on the River Wear in 1910, survived the First World War and was sunk by enemy action off Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1941.
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Name | Umona |
Owner | Bullard, King & Co (Natal Direct Line) |
Port of registry | London |
Route | Middlesbrough – London – Cape Town – Durban – Indian Ocean |
Builder | Sir John Laing & Sons, Sunderland |
Yard number | 630[1] |
Launched | 7 September 1910 |
Completed | October 1910 |
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Fate | Sunk by torpedo, 30 March 1941 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Cargo liner |
Tonnage | |
Length | 356.0 ft (108.5 m) |
Beam | 44.5 ft (13.6 m) |
Draught | 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) |
Depth | 26.0 ft (7.9 m) |
Installed power | 497 NHP |
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Speed | 13 knots (24 km/h) |
Crew | 86 crew and three DEMS gunners |
Armament | DEMS |
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Umona spent her entire 31-year career with Bullard, King and Company. She was the second of the company's ships of that name. The first was a 2,031 GRT cargo liner that had been built at Sunderland in 1890 and wrecked off the Maldives in the Indian Ocean in 1903.[2]
Bullard, King gave all its ships African names to highlight its Natal Direct line, which had linked Middlesbrough and London with Durban in Natal Province since 1879 and later with ports in Portuguese Mozambique[3] and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean.