Roeder
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Travel
on SS Talma, Jan 26- Feb 10, 1942
Built: 1923 by Hawthorn, Leslie
and Co., Newcastle. Yard Nos. 529.
Tonnage : 10, 000g, 6, 154n, 9, 416 dwt.; Engines : Single Screw, Quadruple Expansion 900 NHP. 14.39 Knots (trials) 12 Knots Service Speed.. 2, 500 Tons Coal Bunkers. Passengers: 60 First Class, 74 Second Class, 3, 156 Deck and 220 Crew.
Launched 14th June 1923, delivered 13th September 1923. Talma is a village in Faridpur District, East Bengal now Bangladesh. The first new design of Deep Sea Passenger Ships built for BI. In October 1923 she entered onto the Apcar Service to Japan- Calcutta- Rangoon- Penang- Singapore- Hong Kong- Amoy- Shanghai- Moji- Kobe. She suffered two major fires, both in Number 3 Hold and on the 17th August 1936 was driven ashore at Junk Bay, Hong Kong by a typhoon, only breaking her stern post. She had an incident-free war and she was the last of BI's ships to be released from war duties in October 1947. Lack of speed was her handicap and with the new 'C' Class ships coming on stream she was sold for scrap and after being towed to Inverkeithing, work commenced 29th May 1949 by Thomas W. Ward.
Tonnage : 10, 000g, 6, 154n, 9, 416 dwt.; Engines : Single Screw, Quadruple Expansion 900 NHP. 14.39 Knots (trials) 12 Knots Service Speed.. 2, 500 Tons Coal Bunkers. Passengers: 60 First Class, 74 Second Class, 3, 156 Deck and 220 Crew.
Launched 14th June 1923, delivered 13th September 1923. Talma is a village in Faridpur District, East Bengal now Bangladesh. The first new design of Deep Sea Passenger Ships built for BI. In October 1923 she entered onto the Apcar Service to Japan- Calcutta- Rangoon- Penang- Singapore- Hong Kong- Amoy- Shanghai- Moji- Kobe. She suffered two major fires, both in Number 3 Hold and on the 17th August 1936 was driven ashore at Junk Bay, Hong Kong by a typhoon, only breaking her stern post. She had an incident-free war and she was the last of BI's ships to be released from war duties in October 1947. Lack of speed was her handicap and with the new 'C' Class ships coming on stream she was sold for scrap and after being towed to Inverkeithing, work commenced 29th May 1949 by Thomas W. Ward.