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SS Mutlah

SS Mutlah
History
Name: SS Mutlah
Owner:
  • Nourse Line (1907-1921)
  • Soc di Nav Latina (1921-1923)
  • Occidens Soc. Anon di Nav (1923)
Port of registry:
Builder:
Launched: 1907
Fate: Disappeared 29 December 1923
General characteristics
Type: Cargo ship
Tonnage: 3641 gross register tons
Length: 106.56 m (349 ft 7 in)
Beam: 13.41 m (44 ft0 in)
Draught: 5.91 m (19 ft 5 in)
Propulsion: Triple expansion steam engine 425 hp (317 kW), one shaft
Speed: 12 knots

SS Mutlah was a 3,393-ton steamship built for the Nourse Line in about 1906 by Charles Connell & Company Limited, Glasgow, Scotland. She had triple expansion, 425-nhp (317-Kw) steam engines driving a single screw.

Like other Nourse Line ships, she was primarily used for the transportation of Indian indentured labourers to the colonies. Details of some of these voyages are as follows:

Mutlah caught fire at Naples, Italy, and sank on 24 March 1920. She was refloated, repaired, and returned to service.

In 1921 she was purchased by Soc di Nav Latina, Naples, Italy. In 1923 she was purchased by Occidens Soc. Anon di Nav, Genoa, Italy.

On 29 December 1923 she was in the Mediterranean Sea west-southwest of Sardinia on a voyage from Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, to Antwerp, Belgium, with a cargo of grain when she sent a distress signal, reporting her position as 38°40′N 006°34′E / 38.667°N 6.567°E / 38.667; 6.567 (SS Multah). She then disappeared without trace. She is presumed to have foundered with the loss of all hands.


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