Middlesbrough – London – Cape Town – Durban – Indian Ocean
Builder
Sir John Laing & Sons, Sunderland
Yard number
630[1]
Launched
7 September 1910
Completed
October 1910
Identification
UK official number 129142
code letters HRSQ
Call sign GSDF
Fate
Sunk by torpedo, 30 March 1941
General characteristics
Type
Cargo liner
Tonnage
3,753 GRT
tonnage under deck 3,240
2,388 NRT
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
Propulsion
3-cylinder triple-expansion engine;
single screw
Speed
13 knots (24 km/h)
Crew
86 crew and three DEMS gunners
Armament
DEMS
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.
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.
^Allen, Tony (12 October 2007). "SS Umona (+1941)". The Wreck Site. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
^Allen, Tony (29 April 2013). "SS Umona (+1903)". The Wreck Site. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
^Swiggum, Sue; Kohli, Marj (5 February 2005). "Bullard King & Company, Limited / Natal Direct Line". The Ships List. Sue Swiggum. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
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